Many rang falsely enough to have bestowed upon them a lesser metal: tin.

Rolled gold is a very thin sheet of gold that is laminated to a lesser metal (usually brass).

Blood freezes and lesser metals crack.

The other is a stamp that every piece of jewelry made from gold or silver must have to ensure it is genuine, and not made of lesser metals.

Once the hunter reaches the site, high-frequency metal detectors can distinguish gold's electronic signature from that of lesser metals.

Indigenous craftsmen were relegated in this area to producing cheaper jewelry with lesser metals.

A few other spots also qualified for gold, but many rang falsely enough to be awarded a lesser metal, tin.

Mind you, he tends only to work with the lesser metals, and there's some who'll dismiss him because he doesn't bedeck his pieces with gold and gems.

Arigh was canny enough to insist on best value; the turmoil in Videssos' recent decades had forced the Empire to cheapen its goldpieces with lesser metals.

William Wood turned to lesser metals.