This gold substance was not an ordinary metal.

Draw his sword, the one of ordinary metal, yet whole?

An ordinary metal and leather office chair with castors stood behind the desk, a gray sports jacket hanging on its back.

The train sits on a track of ordinary metal, such as aluminum.

It can only mean that he passed through the energized floor as easily as through ordinary metal.

Contrast this with the behavior of an ordinary metal.

Well, obviously one cannot employ tools of ordinary metal for such a magical undertaking as I am proposing.

She might just as well be ordinary metal!

But for ordinary metals like iron and aluminum, it is exothermic by a lot.

At temperatures which cause ordinary metal to burn like paper.