rust

The battery takes in oxygen and converts iron to rust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

There is still “a lot of rust to knock off,” during camp and the lead-up to the season, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

We just have to shake off a little rust first.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Williams hadn't played in a tournament since saying she was "evolving away" from tennis in 2022, so inevitably there were signs of rust.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

He taught Ellsberg to constantly scan the barbed wire fences along the road, looking for a shiny edge that hadn’t had time to rust, the telltale sign of a recent slice.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

While I confess to having more than three bedrooms in my colonial, I’ll continue to drive my 2014 Jeep until the engine fails or the car rusts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The mineral cave decor — epsomite, mirabilite, sulfate — rusts into the ruddy orange of iron oxide, the deep black of manganese.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

Carbon steel rusts easily, so those knives have to be consistently washed and dried to avoid discoloration.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

“Spring Break”: A child is traumatized when his beloved Slinky rusts out.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2021

That is a great deal; but wampum grows scarce, and silver never rusts.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

The rusted, twisted metal became a means, the authors write, for “communities far from New York to establish a physical bond through these remnants of destruction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Broken pumps, rusted pipes, ghost towns mark Venezuela’s once vibrant oil hub.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

But he also didn’t want to die an old man on a rusted prison cot.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

While trimming back Valerie's hedges and clearing brambles, the 24-year-old spotted a rusted, 50cm device that looked "almost like a mortar stood up on its tail".

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

It was bent and rusted and looked ancient.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The largest structure, a six-story building with dozens of broken windows, is sealed shut with rusting metal grillwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

The reef is home to a small Philippine military outpost aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, a rusting World War Two-era ship deliberately grounded there in 1999 to assert Manila's claim to the territory.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Now they are rusting monuments to Scotland's industrial past.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi's pacey documentary tells the real life story of the rescue of Pakistani schoolboys stranded hundreds of feet above a Himalayan valley in a rusting cable car when wires snap.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

There were no seats; old raffia bags and rawhide canes and empty bottles lay scattered on the rusting floor.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie