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The pair made a poor start against Ukraine's Kostyuk and American Stearns before shaking off what Serena called "a little rust" in the second set.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The battery takes in oxygen and converts iron to rust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The 59-year-old zoo, which occupies 133 acres in the northeast corner of Griffith Park, has also struggled to maintain its national accreditation, with federal regulators finding peeling paint and rust in some exhibits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

We just have to shake off a little rust first.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

The playground was almost empty, with rust collecting on the swing chains and monkey bars.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

While I confess to having more than three bedrooms in my colonial, I’ll continue to drive my 2014 Jeep until the engine fails or the car rusts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The mineral cave decor — epsomite, mirabilite, sulfate — rusts into the ruddy orange of iron oxide, the deep black of manganese.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

Carbon steel rusts easily, so those knives have to be consistently washed and dried to avoid discoloration.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Fungal rusts and smuts that are proliferating in our increasingly warmer and wetter world endanger the world’s coffee supply.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022

And when the sword of the law, confided to the hands of our enemies, rusts in its sheath?

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

"This is a Tour de France original bicycle," from 1979, the 73-year-old added, holding up a piece of a rusted frame.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Its curved blade, chipped and rusted, with a gilded, possibly brass, hilt featuring a lion on the end, is too delicate to hold.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Mercantile scales and rusted bird cages are scattered across crowded shelves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

For a long time, I wandered aimlessly—past ruined parks, blasted statuary, vacant lots overgrown with weeds and collapsed apartment houses with rusted girders poking out of their sides like ribs.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

"These coins were rusting and expanding and were capable of pressing the whole column of rock above them, pushing them up," he told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Now they are rusting monuments to Scotland's industrial past.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

A rusting cargo ship now lies stranded on a sandbank in the blue lagoon, where only a handful of fishing boats float around.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

At an estimated cost of $3.8 billion, it will replace the rusting, abandoned hulk that sits at the east end of East Capitol Street, fronting the Anacostia River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

It was a big old steamer trunk latched with a giant rusting padlock.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs