- present participle of rust.
rusting
Example Sentences
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Pictures last week of the USS Abraham Lincoln docking in Thailand with a rusting hull after a gruelling nine months at sea in the Gulf were pounced on by Iran.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The new EU stepped in to help build border fences, including an eight-foot-tall barrier built in 1995 to replace the rusting, chest-high wire that cordoned Ceuta off from Morocco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The largest structure, a six-story building with dozens of broken windows, is sealed shut with rusting metal grillwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
"The siren tower in our village is rusting and leaning and is set to fall any time because there has never been any maintenance."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
“I don’t believe that my particular body structure is easily adaptable to that type of device,” Ignatius observed, a gimlet eye fixed upon the rusting stool.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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