Example Sentences

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The hosts' began rustily but then found their usual attacking verve while down to 14 men - after Irne Herbst was yellow carded - as Danny Care and Dombrandt backed up Murley's early score.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

Masterpieces are dotted across the lawn: There is a massive and rustily patinated 180-ton Richard Serra sculpture, Sidewinder, anchoring the front yard, its two curving steel walls shadowing each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2018

Three years ago, hungry for applause, he looked up at the high wire still hanging rustily across the canyon, decided to walk it once again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hinges rustily bled where a door had been wrenched away.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rear car door swung rustily open and a bursting desert boot stepped down onto the running board.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole