All 34 Uses of

bronze
in
The Lightning Thief

It was a sword-Mr. Brunner's bronze sword, which he always used on tournament day.
Chpt 1

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

Its polished bronze doors shimmered like a hologram, so that from different angles lightning bolts seemed to streak across them.
Chpt 6

A central fire burned in a bronze brazier the size of a bathtub.
Chpt 7

bronze = made of a brownish metal

He spread his hands, and the tables were suddenly covered with equipment: helmets, bronze swords, spears, oxhide shields coated in metal.
Chpt 8

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

The bronze sword, like all the swords I'd tried so far, seemed balanced wrong.
Chpt 8

Her siblings had only the standard-issue bronze swords-not that that made me feel any better.
Chpt 8

I'm talking about a two-foot-long cylinder of high-grade celestial bronze, capped on both ends with god-level explosives.
Chpt 9

bronze = a type of metal

She carried a book on famous classical architecture, written in Ancient Greek, to read when she got bored, and a long bronze knife, hidden in her shirt sleeve.
Chpt 10

bronze = made of a brownish metal

In half a second, I held a shimmering bronze sword with a double-edged blade, a leather-wrapped grip, and a flat hilt riveted with gold studs.
Chpt 10

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

He was holding a bronze sword and seemed to be staring intently at something down in the meadow.
Chpt 15

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

The bronze sword expanded, gleaming in the darkness, and the evil voice seemed to falter, just for a moment, before resuming its chant.
Chpt 19

My eyes rose to Aunty Em's hands, which had turned gnarled and warty, with sharp bronze talons for fingernails.†
Chpt 11

Riptide was now a shining bronze blade in my hands, and as the Chimera turned, I slashed at its neck.†
Chpt 13

There, not five feet in front of me, was my sword, its gleaming bronze hilt sticking up in the mud.†
Chpt 14

Around the rim, a dozen bronze statues of Cupid stood guard with wings spread and bows ready to fire.†
Chpt 15

In the left seat, glinting in the fading light, was Ares's shield, a polished circle of bronze.†
Chpt 15

It was an army of wind-up creepy-crawlies: bronze-gear bodies, spindly legs, little pincer mouths, all scuttling toward us in a wave of clacking, whirring metal.†
Chpt 15

In the dim bronze light of the sword blade, it was hard to read their expressions.†
Chpt 16

I was standing in a vast throne room with black marble walls and bronze floors.†
Chpt 16

The outer walls of the fortress glittered black, and the two-story-tall bronze gates stood wide open.†
Chpt 19

Some were from modern times-an atomic bomb exploding over a city, a trench filled with gas mask-wearing soldiers, a line of African famine victims waiting with empty bowls-but all of them looked as if they'd been etched into the bronze thousands of years ago.†
Chpt 19

The entry hall had a polished bronze floor, which seemed to boil in the reflected torchlight.†
Chpt 19

Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces-a city of mansions-all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires.†
Chpt 21

Instead of a pole, the holster held a bronze trident, flickering with green light around the tips.†
Chpt 21

The blade was two different types of metal-one edge bronze, the other steel.†
Chpt 22

Definitions:

(1) (bronze as in: bronze won't corrode in salt water)
a brownish-colored metal with red or yellow hues that is made of copper and (usually) tin

Bronze metals in the Olympics and many other contests are awarded for third place.

With the discovery of bronze (about 3,000 BC), people could make tools and weapons that were harder and more durable than those made of copper and stone that preceded bronze.
(2) (bronze as in: a bronze tan)
a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown color like that of one of the metals with the same name -- often used to refer to a suntan or a dark glowing complexion
(3) (bronze as in: her bronze is on display)
something made of the brownish metal with the same name -- such as a sculpture (statue) or a third place medal