IRON in a Sentence

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268 example sentences for IRON, such as:

1. They struck a rich seam of iron ore.
2. Spinach is a valuable source of iron.
3. He hit a magnificent shot with a nine iron.
4. They used to extract iron ore from this site.
5. Pregnant women often suffer from iron deficiency.

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 Meanings and Examples of IRON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
iron
 n.  a strong, hard magnetic silvery-gray metal
 a.  stern; harsh; cruel
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The iron heavens seemed to melt and rain down sweetness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron bench beneath the largest oak in the front yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, for little or none came through the blockade, and the mines in Alabama were standing almost idle while the miners were at the front.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  There were no iron picket fences, iron summerhouses, iron gates or even iron statuary on the lawns of Atlanta now, for they had early found their way into the melting pots of the rolling mills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  He was tall and gaunt and wore a pointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  She wished that she could cry, do something to ease the iron fingers that were digging into her throat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  The railroads needed new cars to take the place of old ones and new iron rails to replace those torn up by the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  You ladies need have no alarm about the proximity of the Yankees, for General Johnston and his army stands there in the mountains like an iron rampart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Yes, an iron rampart, he repeated, relishing his phrase.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  After all, men understood these matters much better than women, and if he said General Johnston was an iron rampart, he must be one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  With those precious twin lines of iron in danger, the Confederates left their desperately defended rifle pits and, under the starlight, made a forced march to Resaca by the short, direct road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  It was still theirs, that slender iron line winding through the sunny valley toward Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
16  He hit a magnificent shot with a nine iron.
17  Materials are all washable and none or minimum iron.
18  Liver is a particularly rich source of dietary iron.
19  They struck a rich seam of iron ore.
20  They used to extract iron ore from this site.
21  We crossed a small iron bridge over a meandering stream.
22  Spinach is a valuable source of iron.
23  He has a steely stare, a brassy attitude and an iron constitution.
24  Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency in their diet.
25  Pregnant women often suffer from iron deficiency.
26  A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer.
27  It is possible to premix the ore at the shipping point, thus saving time at the iron works.
28  Mercury thus contains a much greater abundance of denser materials, the strong implication being that it is rich in metallic iron.
29  How different had this scene looked when I viewed it laid out beneath the iron sky of winter and stiffened in frost!
30  Couldn't find any keys, they tried to use an iron bar to pry the lock.