iron
Example Sentences
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“Leading her to the family vault of the Kanes … he knocked on the iron door, and repeated lines from the poet Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life.”
From Literature
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To do so, he’ll have to iron out disagreements over Canada’s Sikh population, which India accuses of stoking separatist sentiment on its soil.
They focused on iron, calcium, zinc, magnesium, copper, and potassium.
From Science Daily
The Kim family has ruled North Korea with an iron grip for decades, and a cult of personality surrounding their "Paektu bloodline" dominates daily life in the isolated country.
From Barron's
On the rooftop - a small garden with large potted palms - they locked the iron door and dragged the heavy planters across it.
From BBC
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