RUSTY in a Sentence

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55 example sentences for RUSTY, such as:

1. The box was fastened with a rusty wire.
2. Its rusty castors screeching in protest.
3. The floor was littered with rusty food cans.
4. Yes, that's so, but I guess most of us get rusty.
5. She noted a figure in a rusty coat and a cloth cap.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUSTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rusty
 a.  covered with or consisting of rust
 a.  impaired in skill by neglect
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Its rusty castors screeching in protest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  Archie turned to her, his eye malevolent, and when he spoke there was cold anger in his rusty voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  A fat mulatto woman, who was leaning over a rusty old stove, dropped a half curtsy as she saw Scarlett and went on stirring a pot in which black-eyed peas were cooking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  Archie's voice, like a rusty hinge, cut through Scarlett's words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Yes, that's so, but I guess most of us get rusty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  The dooryard was of packed yellow clay, treeless, barren of grass, littered with rusty plowshares and wheels of discarded cultivators.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Fields of springing wheat drew her from the straight propriety of the railroad and she crawled through the rusty barbed-wire fence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  She noted a figure in a rusty coat and a cloth cap.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
11  Beyond the corncribs, at the bottom of the shallow draw, was a muddy little pond, with rusty willow bushes growing about it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
12  Getting a little rusty in the bones, maybe, she added bitterly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
13  She had absolutely no taste in dress, and wore a batch of rusty black lace with a bunch of artificial violets pinned to the side of her hair.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
15  Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  The lock was rusty, so we had to smash the door open.
2  Well, what of that? Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it, all rusty and gray, or rotten chest full of di'monds.
3  The exertion spent in unscrewing the rusty bolt left her exhausted.
4  The rusty, ivy covered Would War 2 tank had obviously been in stasis for years.
5  The box was fastened with a rusty wire.
6  The floor was littered with rusty food cans.