Sentence examples for rust from inspiring English sources

Rust is a correct and usable word in written English.
You may use it as a noun to refer to a reddish-brown oxide coating that forms on iron or steel when exposed to air and moisture, for example: "The rust on the fence had to be removed before it could be repainted."

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rust

verb

To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.

  • The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray.

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Nottingham Forest missed the chance to regain top spot in the Championship as Wigan shook off some of their early-season rust to claim a credible point in a 0-0 draw.

"We're shaking the rust off," Sparks says, ecstatic that the L7 vernacular is back.

And in May, when most athletes are still shaking off the last of their spring rust.

Abolishing the CEFC is.. is an isolationist, rust bucket strategy.

After five months of labour – during which Hudson repaired the rust holes on the van floor, then built and installed, using "common materials found in DIY and home shops", a kitchen, a pressurised water supply and extendible bed, and fitted an enviable on-board music system – he crossed the Channel in March 2014.

In the Delta town of Rome (population: not listed on the census website; churches: four), homes are modest, sometimes tumbledown, cars rust in backyards and the steadiest jobs are at a nearby jail.Materially, life is easier than it was.

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In conversation with Osborne he portrayed cities not as outdated rust-buckets but as engines of growth.

Unsuccessful contestants are then forced to exit by attempting to lift the notoriously tricksy, rust-riddled garage door, while successful candidates are allowed to exit using the side door and taken directly on to the O2 Arena stage where they'll perform again in front of thousands of hysterical fans.

Buffalo, on the Canadian border in the north of New York state, was the US's eighth-largest city in 1900, but became a rust-belt wreck as industry declined.

The Star Tribune reports that experts believe the same system that brought the wintry weather blew the rust-coloured bird off its migratory course.

A lean white dog, rust-splotched, springing up a bank.

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