Example Sentences

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At his bicycle shop in Vienna, Marc Warnaar and his team are fixing a bike, which has rusted brake and gear cables.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023

It’s true that metal has rusted and wood has rotted away.

From NewsForKids.net • Feb. 12, 2022

Instead of discovering low flow at another faucet, you might first notice where the remaining old pipe has rusted through and started to leak.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2021

The system of institutions that functioned for two and a half centuries has rusted through, and we have to figure out how it’s all going to work in the twenty-first century.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2018

So this rogue has rusted here idly through a generation of eating and sleeping.

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)