Examples of rusty

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Another tells three stories linked by the image of the body of a white woman found in a rusty old car.
The key to the cabinet was rusty from many years of disuse.
The key to the cabinets was rusty from many years of disuse.
The dead white woman in the rusty car is a strong dramatic metaphor for the overthrow of the white establishment.
One day, the chain on the crane got rusty in the rain.
In a way the metallised sound goes 'rusty'.
Anyway, the hinges were rusty and it gave way under pressure that was only a little more than polite.
By studying similar finds from different sites, a great deal more information can be recovered from such things as broken pottery or rusty iron.
The only evidence of what transpired in the quarry during the war today are a few rusty cable ends sticking out of some concrete.
Suddenly, for the first time, the fountain makes a rusty gurgling sound and spurts into life.
In tube 4, pure oxygen and water are present, so the nails are very rusty.
The group have begun to connect four ideas: the wire wool has gone brown; it has gone brown because of the rain; it might be metal; it might be rusty.
You have any rusty things ?
Initially, when we arrived at the ghost town sites, the many rusty objects and structures were lying around silently, telling us stories of their working life, of their function.
Cutting ivy from some trees around his garden he stumbled over a rusty animal feeding trough, receiving injuries which resulted in a long period of hospitalisation and convalescence.
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