rusting
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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
"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
Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi's pacey documentary tells the real life story of the rescue of Pakistani schoolboys stranded hundreds of feet above a Himalayan valley in a rusting cable car when wires snap.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
Alex saw the ruins of buildings, half-crumbling chimneys, and rusting metal wheels and knew that he was looking at an old tin mine.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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