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Yet these survivors are so hard-wired to be fearful of their neighbors that Hig and Cima’s rusty, tentative flirtation takes place under the gaze of her daddy’s gun, a heck of a chaperone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Robinson and Tongue took eight wickets apiece, while Archer and Atkinson improved after a rusty first innings when they struggled to adapt following a month playing in The Hundred.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The shadowed portion could also develop a rusty or copper colored tint.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

“To be able to lick a few drops of water off a rusty pipe becomes a leg up somehow,” McManus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

A rusty squeal sounded from across the glade, and then another.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The tall flowers shot up out of spiky, gray-green leaves and were brilliant against darker, rustier tones in the yards.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023

BEREA, Ohio — Deshaun Watson felt the crowd’s anger while juggling his own nerves and emotions in a return that was rustier than expected last week.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

My own feed—I lived in San Francisco before moving to Cleveland—had the vapors, offering up rustier alternatives—just move to the Midwest!—as morally and fiscally superior and doubling down on the fetishization of cheap real estate.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2018

The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrapyard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more heads on the highway.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2014

My Joust skills were a lot rustier than I thought.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

She’s a photographer named Alyssha Eve Csuk, and she grew up in the Rust Belt, beside the rustiest spot in America.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2015

And thus, perhaps the rustiest of the Rust Belt cities has a reason to go wild, writes Yahoo.com’s Les Carpenter.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2011

With few exceptions, the critical essays that make up most of The Vonnegut Statement are founded on the rustiest claptrap in literary exegesis.

From Time Magazine Archive

She sorted through them carefully, and selected the oldest, biggest, blackest, rustiest key.They went into the drawing room.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

Mrs. Brown was a bony woman of sixty, dressed in the rustiest black, and carrying a handbag made, apparently, from the hide of the original animal that Adam decided to call an alligator.

From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry