rust - use in sentences

Object

  • hulk: Further along the coast, a small wooden boat battled the waves, dwarfed against the rusting hulk of an abandoned Russian trawler.
  • bolt: From earlier articles you may remember my description of the difficulty involved in removing rusted bolts from the wooden frame.
  • metal: A manual pump, the rusted metal seemingly dating to the Victorian era, sat in the shallows.
  • machinery: The Factory - Another fairly small level, again a metal theme, with lots of rusting machinery around which sets the style nicely.

Adjective modifier

  • yellow: Yellow rust of barley No samples were received in 1997.
  • brown: Brown rust of barley The high incidence of barley brown rust in 1989 was reflected in the large number of leaf samples received.

Modifies a noun

  • remover: Examples of such products are: VCI 422 VpCI enhanced skin safe water based rust removers.
  • fungus: Leaf spot and rust fungi are the main culprits, as well as viral diseases and nematode pests.
  • bucket: You could end up with a bargain or a complete rust bucket.
  • spore: When the foliage dries more quickly, infections are reduced since, like almost all fungal spores, rust spores require water for germination.
  • stain: Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, or what are they?
  • inhibitor: You can also use the holes to inject inside the sections with a quality rust inhibitor.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • through: The reinforcement D plate behind the light cluster is just starting to rust through.

Preposition: of

  • barley: Brown rust of barley Brown rust was the most severe disease of barley in 1990.
  • wheat: Yellow rust of wheat Yellow rust was widespread in 2000 for the fourth consecutive year.

Noun used with modifier

  • soybean: Soybean rust is a new disease, increasingly affecting soybeans in South America, requiring increased fungicide applications.
  • leaf: I seem to have leaf rust on my Rhododendron.
  • blister: Plants can harbor a stage of white pine blister rust, so they should not be grown in the vicinity of pine trees.
  • crown: Crown rust of oats Crown rust was more widespread than in recent years.
  • cereal: Colin was at the time visiting research groups in Africa working on cereal rusts are a problem.

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