IRON in a Sentence

Learn IRON from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
268 example sentences for IRON, such as:
1. The bed has an iron frame.
2. It's hard to bend an iron bar.
3. Strike the iron while it is hot.
4. The worker hammered the iron flat.
5. The hot iron scorched the tablecloth.
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 Meanings and Examples of IRON
iron
 n.  a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head
 a.  extremely robust
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The iron heavens seemed to melt and rain down sweetness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron bench beneath the largest oak in the front yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, for little or none came through the blockade, and the mines in Alabama were standing almost idle while the miners were at the front.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  There were no iron picket fences, iron summerhouses, iron gates or even iron statuary on the lawns of Atlanta now, for they had early found their way into the melting pots of the rolling mills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  He was tall and gaunt and wore a pointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  She wished that she could cry, do something to ease the iron fingers that were digging into her throat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  The railroads needed new cars to take the place of old ones and new iron rails to replace those torn up by the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  You ladies need have no alarm about the proximity of the Yankees, for General Johnston and his army stands there in the mountains like an iron rampart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Yes, an iron rampart, he repeated, relishing his phrase.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  After all, men understood these matters much better than women, and if he said General Johnston was an iron rampart, he must be one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  With those precious twin lines of iron in danger, the Confederates left their desperately defended rifle pits and, under the starlight, made a forced march to Resaca by the short, direct road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  It was still theirs, that slender iron line winding through the sunny valley toward Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  It's hard to bend an iron bar.
2  He smashed the window with an iron bar.
3  The bed has an iron frame.
4  The iron was too hot and he scorched the shirt.
5  You can do more than strike while the iron is hot; you can make the iron hot by striking.
6  Strike the iron while it is hot.
7  The worker hammered the iron flat.
8  The yard had been enclosed with iron railings.
9  The school has iron gates between the yard and the road.
10  The cell contained an iron bedframe bolted to the floor.
11  Cast iron cannot compare with steel in strength.
12  We're still trying to iron out some problems with the computer system.
13  The iron's too hot, you'll singe the dress.
14  The hot iron scorched the tablecloth.
15  Symptoms of anaemia include weakness, fatigue and iron deficiency.