rusted
Example Sentences
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The rusted, twisted metal became a means, the authors write, for “communities far from New York to establish a physical bond through these remnants of destruction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Its curved blade, chipped and rusted, with a gilded, possibly brass, hilt featuring a lion on the end, is too delicate to hold.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
But he also didn’t want to die an old man on a rusted prison cot.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mercantile scales and rusted bird cages are scattered across crowded shelves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
They had front porches in identical states of disrepair, tin roofs warped and rusted to a similar dull red hue, and flyblown outhouses in each dirt backyard.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
