Sentence examples for rusted from inspiring English sources

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The word "rusted" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an object that is corroded and has a coating of reddish-brown rust on it. For example, "The old rusty car had been sitting in the rain for weeks."

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rusted

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You can stand over a huge vat of gently churning purple-brown sulphuric acid but you had better be careful where you put your feet: the iron walkway is rusted away in places and the handrail has disappeared.

As proof they parade a collection of captured pipe bombs and rusted firearms.

He compares making art to releasing an escape valve; sculpture becomes a way to exorcise his emotions.His best-known works are a series of "Guardians" (pictured above), rusted iron warriors that sit, Buddha-like, between five- and ten-feet tall and manage to be both imposing and protective at the same time.

Are the Anglosphere nations right to treat Russia as a perpetual threat and pariah long after its global ambitions have collapsed and its military power has rusted away?

Whoever wins the presidential election of 2008 will find those levers rusted, weakened or twisted.

Discarded American workers have not rusted on the scrapheap, as so many do in Europe.At its best, then, the American labour market does not dispose of its workers; it recycles them.

The Roman poet Ovid, banished to a dank corner of the empire, complained that exile was ruining him "as laid-up iron is rusted by scabrous corrosion/or a book in storage feasts boreworms".

Further inspection shows that this is attached to a man's sleeping body, on a slim metal ledge, 12 feet above the ground.With maybe a million residents, crammed into a square mile of low-rise wood, concrete and rusted iron, Dharavi is a squeeze.

Judging by the latest scandal in the committee that organises the Olympic Games first run shortly after Hesiod was around—virtue has all but rusted away.Not unnoticed, though.

A group of ex-servicemen and other refugees from the shrinking horizons of welfare-state Britain wanted to mark the end of the age of working sail, before the old ships themselves rotted or rusted away.

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The sumptuous tones in "Rusted Blue Metal" (1972)—mottled-ochre rust spots and deep worn blues are an intimate counterpoint to the stark black-and-white landscapes stretching into infinity for which he is best known.

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