STEEL in a Sentence

Learn STEEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

134 example sentences for STEEL, such as:

1. The building has a steel skeleton.
2. I'm afraid I have bad news for you, so steel yourself.
3. The theatre is a futuristic steel and glass structure.
4. Do not forget those utilitarian steel tables when moving.
5. UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel.

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 Meanings and Examples of STEEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
steel
 n.  a hard, strong, gray or bluish-gray alloy of iron
 v.  mentally prepare to do or face something difficult
Classic Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
1  Interspread were steel engravings in heavy frames, some of them eight feet long, which Scarlett had ordered especially from New York.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  A fashion-plate showing human pitchforks in garments which looked as hard as steel plate.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  They were entertained by Vida in the parlor of Mrs. Elisha Gurrey's boarding-house, with its steel engraving of Grant at Appomattox, its basket of stereoscopic views, and its mysterious stains on the gritty carpet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  A clanging dock where steel cranes unloaded steamers from Buenos Ayres and Tsing-tao.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
7  Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
8  The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
9  Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
10  Steering now south-eastward by Ahab's levelled steel, and her progress solely determined by Ahab's level log and line; the Pequod held on her path towards the Equator.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
11  One of these men told Jurgis that he had sharpened three thousand pieces of steel a day for thirteen years.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
12  From yet another machine came tens of thousands of steel burs to fit upon these bolts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
13  They went through the blast furnaces, through rolling mills where bars of steel were tossed about and chopped like bits of cheese.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
14  There was a row of brick furnaces, shining white through every crack with the molten steel inside.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  First he went to the steel mill and the harvester works, and found that his places there had been filled long ago.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  The theatre is a futuristic steel and glass structure.
17  In a two-stage operation, the multi-spoked steel structure will be raised to the vertical.
18  Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
19  The Administration says the tariffs were meant to be a temporary measure designed to give the American steel industry time to reorganize.
20  The building has a steel skeleton.
21  Stainless steel is able to withstand the effects of corrosive chemicals.
22  Based on its highly resilient, the steel is good to make excellent bedsprings.
23  Do not forget those utilitarian steel tables when moving.
24  This pot hanger is in the shape of the Chinese word for "luck," rendered in red steel.
25  From bent wood pendent lights to sculptural steel plant walls, their portfolio is chalk full of inventive and inspiring pieces.
26  I'm afraid I have bad news for you, so steel yourself.
27  The blacksmith was accustomed to the clangor of hammers on steel.
28  During the course of his metallurgical research, the scientist developed a steel alloy of tremendous strength.
29  The work, funded by the European Union, is aimed at finding out exactly how the Lagoon functions before the construction of a Thames-style barrier of steel gates.
30  The Brazilian president supports other Latin American leaders to stick together over such thorny issues as US farm and steel subsidies.