rust

The zoo is seeing challenges to its national accreditation after federal regulators spotted rust and and peeling paint in some of its exhibits, and pointed out “critical” funding and staffing shortages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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

Since then, no maintenance has been undertaken, which means siren towers have been left to rust, while some have even had their batteries stolen, according to locals.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

And you taste the rust of it and it makes you sick.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

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

A wild stretch of sickly yellow fungus, here and there interspersed with a squat toadstool or a splash of vivid color where one of the many "rusts" had found a foothold.

From The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster

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

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

The researchers compare the damaged protein to a rusted key that no longer fits its lock.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mercantile scales and rusted bird cages are scattered across crowded shelves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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

“Your idea about getting away from the ogre by sledding on that rusted shield was a very good one. You saved us both that day.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

The new EU stepped in to help build border fences, including an eight-foot-tall barrier built in 1995 to replace the rusting, chest-high wire that cordoned Ceuta off from Morocco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

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

My dad drives me in his rusting pickup truck.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender