Iron

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"Iron" in a Sentence (32 examples)

The Golden Gate Bridge is made of iron.

Gold is heavier than iron.

Gold is more precious than iron.

Rust ate away the iron bar.

The iron broke down due to over-heating.

Iron ore occurs there in abundance.

I have to iron my shirt.

Please iron the shirt.

As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.

This iron sheet is coated with tin.

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Today we studied about metals — including iron — at school.

They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates.

Ah, throw that old iron over here! We'll pick it up and go on our way.

the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip

The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]

ironman; a will of iron

He appeared easygoing, but inside he was pure iron.

He lifts iron on the weekends.

I wanted Beauty, and what Nature had failed to supply, Iron would.

Irons and stony irons can be much larger than stony meteorites and are much more visually striking, but make up only a few percent of all meteorites.

She had an iron will.

He held on with an iron grip.

an iron constitution

[…]the fruit-garden, where every tree and walk had a remembrance—those iron links of affection.

The faces of the gods are iron and their mouths set hard. There is no hope from the gods.

And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.

But in her speech, Truss said she would exert an “iron discipline” over public spending, hinting at possible austerity to come. “I believe in sound money and a lean state,” she said.

You'd be wise to iron that shirt before you wear it.

Out of that tub had come the day before - Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.

They were washing and ironing all morning.

[...] is it he who is ironed like a malefactor—who is to be dragged on a hurdle to the common gallows—to die a lingering and cruel death, and to be mangled by the hand of the most outcast of wretches?

to iron a wagon

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