rusting
Example Sentences
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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
Electricity reverses the rusting process, allowing the iron batteries to store energy for later use.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
While a handful have been freshly painted in the yellow, blue and red of the national flag and remain operational, many others have not moved in years and are rusting and falling apart.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Naturally that means the risk versus reward of fixing rusting wells in an unstable country like Venezuela looks different.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
Not like the rusting monoliths of the Accelerated Age, but still, it loomed over them.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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Chemistry - High School
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