rust

Not while he’s flustered and frustrated — which you can’t spell without rust, though even Roberts admitted, “I don’t know how long you can use the rust thing, which I’ve certainly used.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The battery takes in oxygen and converts iron to rust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

For Joshua, it is about far more than shaking off ring rust.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

We just have to shake off a little rust first.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

We used a machine the size of a mobile home to press them into a Z shape, then we attached wire brushes to grinders and blasted away the rust so they could be painted.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“It needs a ton of work—even plastic rusts in Key West.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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

The rusts, such as Puccinia graminis, P. straminis, P. Coronata, and P. arudinacea, cause colic and diarrhea, and in some cases partial paralysis of the throat.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Videos and photos circulating on social media show piles of rocks, chunks of concrete and rusted metal rods after waves removed layers of sand along the shoreline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Its curved blade, chipped and rusted, with a gilded, possibly brass, hilt featuring a lion on the end, is too delicate to hold.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

A rusted nail stuck out from its center, over Dicey’s head.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Every year, tens of thousands of birds glide over the rusting remains of one of the Mediterranean's largest saltworks, to rest in the rare paradise it left behind.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Old and rusting tankers like these form what maritime experts call the “shadow fleet,” a roving armada of hundreds of vessels that ferry oil for sanctioned regimes, including Iran and Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown