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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rod of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a physical object, typically a long, thin, straight piece of material, often used for support or as a tool.
Example: "He carried a rod of iron to help him navigate through the dense forest."
Alternatives: "a stick of" or "a bar of".
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Mick Quinn Martin O'Neill rules with a rod of fear.
Domenech appears to be ruling with a rod of iron.
Their backs were stiffened by a rod of cartilage, along which grew bony prongs.
She was "stern and forbidding, ruling the home with a rod of iron," Dr. Widdowson wrote.
Her distant grandeur has held the lurid plot together like a rod of ice.
This was a committee and Laura Fox ruled these nights with a rod of iron".
"We'd all come from kitchens that were run with a rod of iron and you were barked at and berated.
The individual hair is a rod of keratinized cells that may be cylindrical or more or less flattened.
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Contemplate open season on cheaters and baseball desperately needing a savior, and for history repeating itself, with A-Rod of the Yankees as a 21st century Babe.
He allowed that he was not an architectural scholar, but that a friend had explained, "Richardson was the A-Rod of architecture in his era".
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