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Example sentences for "iron"

Lexicographically close words:
irketh; irks; irksome; irksomeness; irne; ironbark; ironbound; ironclad; ironclads; ironed
  1. An iron pier nearly two miles away has been built, and is the landing-place for large and small craft.

  2. The Colonel looked on for a time, then grasping the missile in his master hand, he whirled the iron through the air, and it fell far beyond any of its former limits.

  3. What was gold for them is now iron for us.

  4. He has a clairvoyant eye that can perceive the existence of hope through the iron walls of despair.

  5. These, having lain in the water so long, were crusted with a strong substance, which they had to break with iron bars.

  6. Iberville said nothing, but with an admiring glance into the aged, iron face, stooped and kissed Frontenac's hand and withdrew silently.

  7. In apparently uncontrollable passion, Sabina stamped violently and shook the rail of the iron bedstead with her hands.

  8. It was Enid Vane who had found her way to her parents' grave, and had slipped down upon the frosted grass, half kneeling, half lying against the iron rails.

  9. He saw the tall slight figure stop at an iron gate, push it open, and walk up the flagged pavement to the door of a dingy but highly respectable-looking house.

  10. She moved a little closer to him, and followed him inside the iron gates of Beechfield Park.

  11. The eyes of this woman were sparkling with anger; there was defiance in her every movement, even in the way in which her fingers were clenched at her sides or clutched the iron rail of the bed on which her mother lay.

  12. They were in a quiet part of the Gardens, and her father suddenly laid an iron grip upon her wrist.

  13. He knew more of Treves than did the Count, and asserted that no man could stir up trouble in that town, where all were but too well acquainted with the weight of the Archbishop's iron hand.

  14. Such indeed had once been her intention if the iron Archbishop, her unrelenting guardian, persisted in forcing his will upon her.

  15. The ancient man, who was patiently waiting for him, had now a torch in his hand, which he lighted when he came to the courtyard, applying it to another that flared in an iron receptacle fastened to the stone wall.

  16. Her dreamy eyes lost sight of the dark wood, and she saw in imagination her hero at the head of his men break through the iron cordon which had so long encompassed the castle, bringing, with ringing cheers, succour to the oppressed.

  17. A moment later the Baron, stopping at the archway, but without dismounting, reached out his hand and pulled an iron rod which had a loop lower down for the convenience of one on foot.

  18. There is no peril in dealing with so stupid a band as that at Treves, whose head a simple girl may cozen and whose chief warrior, mounted and encased in iron an unarmoured foot-soldier can overthrow.

  19. Even if the two stout oaken leaves of the gate, iron bolted, and barred within by heavy timbers, were broken down, the gateway might be held by two expert swordsmen against an outside host.

  20. In the large room he found an iron lamp dimly burning, and the trap-door raised.

  21. After the echoes died away there was a perceptible interval, then the shutter behind the grating was noiselessly lifted with some caution, and a pair of eyes appeared and disappeared at the iron network.

  22. Saying this, Siegfried laid hold of an iron stanchion, one of two that stood perpendicular on either side of the window-aperture from top to ledge, pressed against the thick stone wall.

  23. Obedient monster, please to bite this mass of iron through and through, at equal distances, where these regular chalk-marks are, all round.

  24. So, Chips resolved to kill the rat, and, being at work in the Yard one day with a great kettle of hot pitch on one side of him and the iron pot with the rat in it on the other, he turned the scalding pitch into the pot, and filled it full.

  25. By a plank more gracefully pendulous than substantial, I make bold to go aboard a transport ship (iron screw) just sent in from the contractor's yard to be inspected and passed.

  26. Is this the Golden Age revived, or Iron London?

  27. I have in my iron safe, nearly four hundred pounds of theirs; the agents have nearly a hundred pounds more and many of them have left money in Indian banks besides.

  28. This is, or soon will be, the Achilles, iron armour-plated ship.

  29. And hanging over one of his arms by the handle was an iron pot, and under that arm was a bushel of tenpenny nails, and under his other arm was half a ton of copper, and sitting on one of his shoulders was a rat that could speak.

  30. The lady's piano, drawing-materials, books, and other such evidences of refinement are as much a part of the rough place as the iron bedsteads of the little patients.

  31. It is the sale of land at Wittisham which makes these improvements possible, advantages drawn from a painful necessity," and the iron woman almost sighed.

  32. The vessels poured in their volumes of iron hail on the flanks, and the last dread effort of defensive despair expired before the unflinching firmness of the Castilian squadrons.

  33. The furious populace rushed through every avenue towards this edifice, and encountered with wonderful nerve and endurance, the ceaseless storm of iron hail which its stout defenders rained upon them from every quarter.

  34. The railing of the gallery was of iron tracery, painted green, with a brass balustrade.

  35. On Monday he refrained from hanging round the door in Starker's iron shutter.

  36. By making a dash for it from Woolridge's he could reach Starker's just in time to catch Winny as she came out, delicately stepping through the little door in the great iron shutter.

  37. The next evening and the next he watched the door in the iron shutter, and was too late for Winny.

  38. He gave that up, and began to haunt the door in Starker's iron shutter at closing-time.

  39. Another door at the end of the passage led straight into the dispensing-room outside, a long shed of corrugated iron run up against the garden wall and lined with honey-colored pine.

  40. The Iron Cardinal: the romance of Richelieu.

  41. Mrs. Hope hunted up some old iron firedogs and a pair of bellows, Poppy contributed a pair of brass-knobbed tongs, and Mrs. Marsh lent her a lamp.

  42. Clover could not at all understand what all these manoeuvres were for,--they seemed only designed to show the paces of the iron steeds, and what they were good for.

  43. The best illustration, perhaps, would be to assume a material composed of iron filings, into which had been driven a powerful magnet, so that the iron filings would be drawn horizontally in one direction.

  44. In sand it is approximately 40% of the pressure for reasonably smooth iron or steel, and 45% of the pressure for ordinary wood surfaces.

  45. The unsavoury odour of half-dried hides assailed his nostrils; the ramshackle iron roof rattled to the blasts over his head.

  46. Besides his gun Old Schalk took two large "slacht eizers," or iron traps--cruel things with toothed iron jaws that would smash the leg of a horse.

  47. Max Steinmetz stood in the doorway of the little iron shanty at Namies, which was built near the foot of a kopje about three hundred yards from the Hattingh camp.

  48. In his hand was the iron spike, and with this he began to dig wildly, scattering the flakes of dung far and wide.

  49. A knock on the iron front of the door startled him from his dream.

  50. There was one drawer in the little iron safe of which Nathan had always kept the key.

  51. The furniture of the cave consisted of a few miserable skins, two or three earthern pots of native make, a bow and a quiverful of poisoned arrows, and a few blunted iron spikes, the latter being used in the root-digging operations.

  52. Both Nathan and Max were in the iron building; the former writing at the empty packing-case which served as a desk, and the latter engaged in bartering wild-cat skins from some strange Hottentots from Great Namaqualand.

  53. He rushed across the intervening space and beat with his fists against the iron door of Nathan's bedroom, until the whole building thundered.

  54. The "gqira" knew approximately the situation of the empty pit, so he had no difficulty in finding the flat covering stone by probing with the iron spike which he had brought with him for the purpose.

  55. Aye, heat the iron seven times hot In the furnace red of hell; Call to your aid the venomed skill Of "all the fiends that fell," And forge new links for the galling chain To bind the prostrate South again.

  56. There they built old Bethel Church with whipsawed lumber and wrought iron nails, each one furnishing his part of materials, or work.

  57. There, with a hand that shook, he pointed out to me some white mice shut up in tiny iron cages that were provided with squirrels' wheels, whereon the little beasts galloped without respite.

  58. In the Franco-Prussian war he had received two wounds which had rendered him permanently unfit for his trade of iron worker, and had contracted a disease which had forced him to spend nearly four years out of ten in various hospitals.

  59. He is more orthodox than the most orthodox of economists as to the iron law of wages (la loi d'airain des salaires), the inexorableness of the operation of supply and demand, and the impotence of strikes.

  60. Madeleine Lemaire, was an iron worker of an independent spirit, who became so disgusted with the sufferings and humiliations of the labourer's lot that he determined to make a dramatic protest.

  61. The kilogramme of iron falsely called a heart will never be anything more than a kilogramme of iron.

  62. The furnishings of his single room were an iron bed, an unpainted table, and three straw-bottomed chairs.

  63. Being a combination of Glass and Iron they possess the qualities of both; the Glass insuring a pure beverage, free from taste or discoloration, and the iron supplying the strength necessary for durability.

  64. Those who use the =AGATE IRON WARE=, patented and made by this firm, need no recommendation of it.

  65. There was a general reduction in distances moved by the pack in May and June after the wolves had settled in Iron County (Fig.

  66. In doing so, she probably had passed through the area previously explored just north of the Iron County region where the pack had spent so much of its time.

  67. A fire was soon sending out a fair amount of heat, and the coffee pot placed upon the top of the little sheet-iron stove gave promise of good cheer to come.

  68. We're safe from the iron rain up at this height, Frank.

  69. The naked music, pulsatile and drowsy, turned hysterical as Zarathustra-Strauss waved on his Übermensch with an iron hammer and in frenzied, philosophic motions.

  70. To Nuremberg to see the real iron virgin," he answered without sarcasm.

  71. Half a hundred women rushed to the opera house and fell upon their hands and knees, scratching at the iron cellar gratings, and calling loudly through the little windows whose thick panes of glass were grimed with age.

  72. And my flesh and my brain are underneath their feet; I am the victim, and I perish Under the weight of these nocturnal gods And in the iron winds of their unceasing wrath.

  73. The cautious tap at the stage door had not ceased before he was there seizing in a clutch of iron the carpenter.

  74. But he was a born colorist, and sought to arouse the imagination by stupendous orchestral effects, frescoes of tone wherein might be discerned terrifying perspectives, sinister avenues of drooping trees melting into iron dusks.

  75. Music drew him as iron filings to the magnet, or as the tentacles of an octopus carry to its parrot-shaped beak its victim.

  76. A few months more, in the spring, he would be sailing on just such an iron carrier of joy, sailing to Paris, to Edna.

  77. Iron here, more precious than gold, bears down every barrier of restraint.

  78. I have seen men between twenty and thirty, whose fore-teeth have been consumed almost down to the gums, though no two of them were exactly of the same length or thickness, but irregularly corroded, like iron by rust.

  79. He told them that we wanted provision and water, and would give them iron in exchange, the properties of which he explained as well as he was able.

  80. Tobias heard the clatter of Ralph Endicott's boots on the iron treads coming down from above.

  81. Tobias stood at the steering wheel amidships, holding the spokes with iron hand, while Lorna crouched almost at his feet.

  82. The embrace of the Iron Virgin of the Inquisition could have been little more uncomfortable than that of his Sunday suit.

  83. Those that contain least oxygen are hard, black and magnetic like iron itself.

  84. Therefore a superficial film of such phosphate will protect the iron underneath except from acids.

  85. Now the nearest relative to iron is nickel, and a layer of this of any desired thickness may be easily deposited by electricity upon any surface however irregular.

  86. We have to carry on this eternal conflict against rust because oxygen is the most ubiquitous of the elements and iron can only escape its ardent embraces by hiding away in the center of the earth.

  87. The fuse was ignited as the missile was released and the thermit, as it heated up, melted the wax and allowed it to flow out together with the liquid iron through the holes in the nose-piece.

  88. The same is true of the porcelain-like enamel with which our kitchen iron ware is nowadays coated.

  89. Some of the newer alloys for high-speed tools contain no iron at all.

  90. Now there is only one way of keeping iron and oxygen from uniting and that is to keep them apart.

  91. The barium peroxide having a superabundance of oxygen gives it up readily and the aluminum thus encouraged attacks the iron oxide and robs it of its oxygen.

  92. For that reason there is practically no iron in the world except what man has made.

  93. It is the iron in our blood that enables us to get the iron out of iron rust and make it into machines to supplement our feeble hands.

  94. As soon as the iron is melted it is run off through the bottom of the crucible and fills the space between the rail ends, being kept from spreading by a mold of refractory material such as magnesite.

  95. Raising the percentage to 25 we get an alloy that does not rust or corrode and is non-magnetic, although both its component metals, iron and nickel, are by themselves attracted by the magnet.

  96. Chlorophyll contains magnesium in place of iron but iron is necessary to its formation.

  97. In 1886 he produced metallic sodium by mixing caustic soda with iron and charcoal in an iron pot and heating in a gas furnace.

  98. One balmy summer day our little debating club of three sat in one of the small iron balconies of the hotel, discussing the great battle which had been fought, and rumor said won, on the heights around Manassas Junction.

  99. Its citizens had been mad enough to fire on our fleet, and Farragut had swept it with his iron besoms of destruction.

  100. Earnestly as she sympathised with its loyal and humane objects, she was not logical enough or not firm enough to sympathise with the iron thing itself.

  101. At this moment the flat, dull report of a rifled iron gun came from the woods far away in front, followed a few seconds afterward by another report, still flatter in sound and much more distant, the bursting of a shell.

  102. They trained a twenty-four-pounder iron gun in that direction, and pointed the rest of the artillery so as to sweep the plain between the fort and a wood half a mile distant.

  103. By night the darkness was punctuated here and there by a gas flame at the top of an iron lamp post.

  104. It was probably the poorest swimming pool ever prescribed by an iron tradition.

  105. There hung a long iron crowbar, bent up in the form of a triangle.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iron" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adamant; bicycle; bike; bone; brass; brassy; brazen; brick; bronze; buffer; cement; chopper; concrete; copper; cycle; diamond; dour; firm; flint; flinty; fundamentalist; gilt; gold; golden; granite; grim; hard; hidebound; horse; immovable; immutable; implacable; inelastic; inexorable; inflexible; intransigent; iron; ironbound; ironclad; irreconcilable; lead; leaden; lion; mangle; marble; mercurial; metal; motorcycle; nail; nickel; oak; obdurate; obstinate; orthodox; pewter; pig; press; puritanical; quicksilver; relentless; rigid; rigorous; rock; rockbound; roll; silver; silvery; smooth; smoother; steel; steely; stern; stiff; stone; stubborn; tin; tinny; unaffected; unalterable; unbending; unchangeable; uncompromising; unmoved; unrelenting; unyielding; wheel


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    iron and; iron bars; iron bridge; iron cage; iron chest; iron core; iron door; iron filings; iron girders; iron hand; iron hoop; iron ores; iron oxide; iron pipe; iron pipes; iron plate; iron plates; iron pyrites; iron railing; iron ring; iron stove; iron sword; iron vessel; iron wire; iron work; ironical smile