RUST in a Sentence

Learn RUST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

32 example sentences for RUST, such as:

1. Idleness is the rust of mind.
2. Older cars will begin to rust.
3. Better wear out than rust out.
4. Iron exposed to damp air will rust.
5. Remove all the rust with a wire brush.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rust
 v.  become destroyed by water, air, or an etching chemical such as an acid
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  It was locked; and lying near by on the flags, they found the key, already stained with rust.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
2  At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  The most were masses of rust, but many were of some new metal, and still fairly sound.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR
6  And truly Levin had never drunk any liquor so good as this warm water with green bits floating in it, and a taste of rust from the tin dipper.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
7  He drew the new hammerless shotgun out of its heavy tan leather case and made her peep through the barrels to see how dazzlingly free they were from rust.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over with hoar-frost.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
9  The wood was disappearing under mud, and the iron beneath rust.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
10  Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his horse feet stood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
11  He then desired me to draw my scimitar, which, although it had got some rust by the sea water, was, in most parts, exceeding bright.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
12  The closed gates are of heavy old oak and iron, all eaten with rust.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Finally the new agent stole even the books, and the company in wrath closed its business and its houses, refused to sell, and let houses and furniture and machinery rust and rot.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  The staple to which my chains were fixed, was more rusted than I or the villain Abbot had supposed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discoloured metal and several dull-coloured pieces of pebble or glass.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Example Sentence:
1  Iron exposed to damp air will rust.
2  It is better to wear out than to rust out.
3  Better wear out than rust out.
4  Older cars will begin to rust.
5  There were large patches of rust on the car.
6  This car polish is an effective shield against rust.
7  She scraped the rust off the kitchen knife.
8  Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
9  Idleness is the rust of mind.
10  Iron reacts with water and air to produce rust.
11  Remove all the rust with a wire brush.
12  The steady dripping of water will rust the metal stopper of the sink in one year.
13  Sometimes this means police officers help neighborhood members clear out vacant lots and rusting cars.