Etymology
Origin of rustless
Example Sentences
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Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mercury has lavish, rustless steel grilles, widely flared fenders protected by heavy bumpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Rustless, life-born, living-tissued old wood: rustless as flesh is rustless, and happy-seeming as iron never can be.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
And stacks of material—sheet steel, deckplate, girders—and contragravity lifters and construction machines, all left on jobs that were never finished, the bright rustless metal dulled by forty years of rain and windblown red dust.
From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam
Run a stout line, either of rope or rustless wire, between the two upright poles, about a foot below the ridge pole.
From Camping For Boys by Gibson, Henry William
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