rusting
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Rusting boats lie half-submerged on a beach on the edge of town, where rotting plastic pollutes the sand.
From The Verge • May 30, 2022
Rusting factories and machinery remain, but the space between has been filled by grassy lawns, glassy ponds and a good deal of greenery.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022
NGA KHU YA, Myanmar — Rusting behind barbed wire, rows of trailers at a repatriation center sit empty and uninviting, evocative of a prison awaiting its inmates.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019
Rusting Soviet tanks on the shoreline of the Emirati base once belonged to socialist secessionists in Yemen's brief 1994 civil war.
From Fox News • Dec. 3, 2018
Rusting car hulks cast the only shadows across deserted yellow yards; in many places barbed wire had snapped between fence posts and now curled frozenly toward the sky.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Chemistry - High School
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