rust
Example Sentences
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They showed no sign of rust when they returned at the 2023 Asian Games in China's Hangzhou, taking the silver medal after losing in the final to Japan.
From Barron's
Using her beak, C.C. pried open a long thin door in the belly of the clock, thus revealing an intricate display of rusted gears and springs and chains and doodads creaking away.
From Literature
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Form’s iron-air batteries generate electricity through a chemical reaction involving oxygen, water and iron powder that mimics how old pieces of metal gather rust.
From Barron's
Form’s iron-air batteries generate electricity through a chemical reaction involving oxygen, water and iron powder that mimics how old pieces of metal gather rust.
From Barron's
The concert sequences in “EPiC” scrape that rust away with a flourish.
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