rusted

Example Sentences

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While trimming back Valerie's hedges and clearing brambles, the 24-year-old spotted a rusted, 50cm device that looked "almost like a mortar stood up on its tail".

From BBC • May 28, 2026

First he moved the hopeless cases — frames dented, forks bent, gears rusted — into one room and their cousins the wheelchairs into another, leaving about 90 that could be saved.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

On a Friday afternoon, villagers flocked to the old red-brick mosque, where a rusted sign reads "established 1480".

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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