rusty
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It’s the infrastructure around it: childcare, time, money, bodily recovery and a place where being rusty is allowed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
And the former world number eight looked rusty as he broke Zheng, ranked 144th, just once in the entire match.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Tera Lawson snuck her son’s new hacky sack when he wasn’t looking to test her rusty skills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Instead of wearing a seashell on his back, like most hermit crabs, he wore a rusty old soup can.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
The tall flowers shot up out of spiky, gray-green leaves and were brilliant against darker, rustier tones in the yards.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023
A metal handle can be more lightweight and sturdy, but it may also be colder and rustier.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
BEREA, Ohio — Deshaun Watson felt the crowd’s anger while juggling his own nerves and emotions in a return that was rustier than expected last week.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
My own feed—I lived in San Francisco before moving to Cleveland—had the vapors, offering up rustier alternatives—just move to the Midwest!—as morally and fiscally superior and doubling down on the fetishization of cheap real estate.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2018
My Joust skills were a lot rustier than I thought.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
She’s a photographer named Alyssha Eve Csuk, and she grew up in the Rust Belt, beside the rustiest spot in America.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2015
And thus, perhaps the rustiest of the Rust Belt cities has a reason to go wild, writes Yahoo.com’s Les Carpenter.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2011
With few exceptions, the critical essays that make up most of The Vonnegut Statement are founded on the rustiest claptrap in literary exegesis.
From Time Magazine Archive
She sorted through them carefully, and selected the oldest, biggest, blackest, rustiest key.They went into the drawing room.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
He was ever clothed in the very rustiest brown black that age can produce.
From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony
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