Sentence examples for iron from inspiring English sources

There were sets for spinsters, boxes commemorating the First World War (contents: naval and military headdress, iron crosses, a Kaiser moustache and shells), even crackers for Masons.

But Obama made use of the historical setting to try to conjure the very same sort of shared values that brought western nations together when the iron curtain divided Europe; he announced plans to cut nuclear weapons.

"It needs work to iron out the inconsistencies," says Stephenson, "and we've put forward three areas where we're lobbying for change".

\As the highest cost major iron ore producer with $11bn of debt, Fortescue was in a more precarious position than other Pilbara producers, he said.

As she lies wrapped in white cotton in an iron cot sterilized with bleach, her swollen legs appear dislocated from her rattling body.

Sierra Leone was devastated by an 11-year civil war that ended in 2002, but by 2013 a commodities-led boom driven by deposits of iron ore, gold, diamonds and rutile had pushed growth to 20%.

At first I refused to acknowledge it had anything to do with the accident, and Googled "iron deficiency" since I'd not been eating much meat.

From above, like a sea of iron filings pulled by a magnet, the whole city appears to crowd round a core, the vortex of pilgrims giving way to an equally swirling current of tower blocks.

O'Donnnell said: "The one thing we need to be aware of is people thinking that what Nick Clegg said last time constituted an iron law that only the biggest party, somehow defined either by seats or votes, gets to have the first say.

He knows what it's like to get on the tube at 8am and get squashed, then come home at six, iron a shirt and go to bed – and he'll remind me of that now and again.

One method, using a "pricking iron", which looks like a fork, is laborious and hard to get straight; the other uses a "pricking wheel" – like a pastry edger – which zips along neatly but is much less satisfying.