rust
Example Sentences
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“It needs a ton of work—even plastic rusts in Key West.”
At 20 years old, jumping in my ’76 Monte Carlo with rust all over it and saying, “I’m going to drive to California to be an actor.”
From Los Angeles Times
He considers his internship a success, despite his "extremely dirty" task of sandblasting rust off ships, a job he says few Japanese on site were saddled with.
From Barron's
"I think it's sometimes a little bit harder when the person you're playing has already played a match, and then you're kind of trying to still knock off a bit of the rust," she said.
From Barron's
Naturally that means the risk versus reward of fixing rusting wells in an unstable country like Venezuela looks different.
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