rod
Example Sentences
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She took her fishing rod back to the rocks, and when she caught a fish, she dropped it in a bucket.
From Literature
As prime minister, Oli became a lightning rod for protester fury.
From Barron's
In the mountains surrounding the city, more than 400 firework manufacturers occupy strictly regulated factories, where workshops are topped with lightning rods.
From Barron's
The higher forces, in turn, would require thicker piston crowns, shortened connecting rods and thicker wrist pins.
Since the startup Anthropic launched Claude for Financial Services last summer, “LSEG shares have been a lightning rod for market fears about AI disruption risk,” Jefferies analyst Tom Mills wrote in a note last week.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
