hot iron

Example Sentences

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One such instance is a mirrored image of a young Elwood Curtis as he stares at a hot iron.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

My cheeks burn as if they are being pressed with a hot iron ready to tackle a pile of wrinkled shirts.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

In the NBA, the MVP award doesn’t crown a superstar as much as it brands him with a hot iron.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

Water is routinely used in metallurgy to quench hot iron and steel, making them stronger by rapidly locking the metal atoms into a hard lattice.

From Scientific American • Feb. 10, 2022

All you had to do was hold a hot iron rod to a coil of solder, which was like a soft metal, melt it, and let the silvery material flow into place.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam