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Discover LudwigThe word "corrugated" is correct and usable in written English.
You would typically use this word to describe something that has been formed into a series of parallel ridges and grooves, such as a sheet of corrugated metal or cardboard. For example, you could say, "The roof was made from sheets of corrugated metal."
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corrugated
verb
Past of corrugate
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On either side, two wings are encased in light-grey corrugated iron, with the corrugations running horizontally.
It has a muddy main drag lined with brick buildings with doors of corrugated iron – a small shop, a charcoal store, a dark room full of drunks.
As well as the farm gate sales, there's the Big Red Café, which has a rustic laid-back feel, set in a large well-lit corrugated iron tin shed.
Schwarz aka Reverend "Muni" (muni means black in the Guugu Yimithirr language) was sleeping on a sheet of corrugated iron in Brisbane's notorious Boggo Road jail when McIvor's father visited him.
It had a corrugated iron roof and, in the midsummer temperatures then prevailing, was like an oven.
His only room now was a six-feet-square enclosure of rusting corrugated iron sheets with the carcasses of two armchairs.
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Just 100 yards from the spanking new stock-exchange building on the outskirts of Lisbon is a collection of makeshift dwellings with corrugated-iron roofs and walls.
But drive a bit further out and you find overcrowded black townships and beyond them the sprawling shanty towns where the dirt-poor live in leaky corrugated-iron shacks with no electricity, running water or sanitation.
We drive along a tarred road, lined with rough wooden or corrugated-iron shacks, selling everything from sofas and car spare parts to mangos, hard-boiled eggs and cell-phone time.
Blowtorched perforations outlining a large hole in the corrugated-iron border fence had been noticed by outsiders in October and mentioned in meetings with Israeli officials.
"That one", he says, waving at a clump of corrugated-iron sheds and belching chimneys, "is owned by a man from Shanghai".
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