iron filings

What looked like a handful of iron filings fell to the table.

You can look at a wire's magnetic field using iron filings.

Let's replace the water with a ton of iron filings.

Her voice sounded as if it had been mixed with iron filings.

I said, "But it'll show up if you spread iron filings across a piece of paper."

The good old bar magnet under a piece of paper with iron filings on top.

Can you tell us why people did not show up from all over, like iron filings drawn to a magnet?

The last tray, the fine one, collected the iron filings.

He is a magnet, with fans drawn to him like iron filings.

They fell back as she approached, like iron filings from the wrong end of a magnet.

Then sandwich the message between some other paper and sprinkle iron filings on the top.

Turn it on, and the machine makes a sound like iron filings being shaken in a brown paper bag.

The iron filings move and arrange into the lines.

His staff clustered at that end, drawn like iron filings to a magnet.

At the next stroke more iron filings dusted the deck.

It's like a magnet in the middle of a field of iron filings.

You couldn't pick up a car with your remote, but maybe some small iron filings or even a paper clip.

The flux lines can be seen by placing iron filings over a magnet.

This is the same behavior that the particles of iron filings exhibit in a magnetic field.

"The little Makers are drawn to the moisture like iron filings to a magnet."

"And suddenly all these proteins lying about inside the cell become drawn to it like iron filings."

A simple flux can be made from borax, sometimes with the addition of iron filings.

Custer was drawn to publicity like iron filings to a magnet.

"Iron Filings turned his head to the right," Barton pointed out.

Yet she had no trouble dating young men; they seemed attracted to her like iron filings to a magnet.