metal-framed

• “ANA said the plane could go 52% further than the metal-framed Boeing 767 while using 20% less fuel for the distance flown.”

  The Guardian: 787 Dreamliner becomes reality three years behind schedule

• “Inside it is all metal-framed chairs on hard, dark-tiled floors.”

  The Guardian: Restaurant review: Butley Orford Oysterage

• “Generally, he prefers a metal-framed aviator, which he says is versatile and can be flattering to many face shapes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Dark Secrets: Sunglass Designer Picks His Shades

• “Edell sighed, peeled open a bandage and a single-use tube of ointment, and looked at her over his metal-framed glasses.”

  Simon & Schuster: SUPERBUG

• “He smoothed the sides of his trousers, then sat in the metal-framed chair my aunt had vacated.”

  Simon & Schuster: Shade

• “There underneath her shabby metal-framed bed, was a purple balloon.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Book of Miracles

• “Some 20 miles away, Daouda Samake sits in a metal-framed chair outside his family home in the tiny village of N'Tentou, Kouroulamini, his eyes squinting in the early morning sun.”

  The Guardian: The desperate plight of Africa's cotton farmers

• “Light sprang forth from a small chandelier suspended over a narrow metal-framed bed, which had been shoved lengthwise against one wall.”

  Simon & Schuster: Nevermore

• “The dressing room was square, with white walls, a couple of splintery wooden chairs, an equally worn table, a clothes rack, two metal-framed cots with saggy mattresses, and a bare globe casting harsh light from overhead.”

  Simon & Schuster: DIAMOND RUBY

• “As a bonus, the old metal-framed exposure-film ones are also quite hard and hefty and could make a reasonable impromptu club/shield/device-for-applying-pressure-to-nerve-clusters…… And flashes going off at eyes adjusted to night sight are handy as well.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Probably lucky I couldn’t find my boots.

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