STEEL in a Sentence

Learn STEEL 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.
134 example sentences for STEEL, such as:
1. Sheffield is a major steel town.
2. Hot steel is quenched to harden it.
3. The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts.
4. Cast iron cannot compare with steel in strength.
5. The bridge is reinforced with huge steel girders.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STEEL
steel
 v.  cover, plate, or edge with steel
 n.  a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
Classic Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
1  Interspread were steel engravings in heavy frames, some of them eight feet long, which Scarlett had ordered especially from New York.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  A fashion-plate showing human pitchforks in garments which looked as hard as steel plate.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  They were entertained by Vida in the parlor of Mrs. Elisha Gurrey's boarding-house, with its steel engraving of Grant at Appomattox, its basket of stereoscopic views, and its mysterious stains on the gritty carpet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  A clanging dock where steel cranes unloaded steamers from Buenos Ayres and Tsing-tao.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
7  Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
8  The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
9  Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
10  Steering now south-eastward by Ahab's levelled steel, and her progress solely determined by Ahab's level log and line; the Pequod held on her path towards the Equator.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
11  One of these men told Jurgis that he had sharpened three thousand pieces of steel a day for thirteen years.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
12  From yet another machine came tens of thousands of steel burs to fit upon these bolts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
13  They went through the blast furnaces, through rolling mills where bars of steel were tossed about and chopped like bits of cheese.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
14  There was a row of brick furnaces, shining white through every crack with the molten steel inside.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  First he went to the steel mill and the harvester works, and found that his places there had been filled long ago.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  This type of sheet steel could stand high pressure.
2  The steel trusts merged various small businesses.
3  People who work with furnaces in a steel factory need to wear protective clothing.
4  The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts.
5  Cast iron cannot compare with steel in strength.
6  She offered the familiar argument that a strong domestic steel industry is needed for national defense.
7  A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.
8  Hot steel is quenched to harden it.
9  The bridge is reinforced with huge steel girders.
10  These usually indicate the presence of steel tie-rods used to hold a defective structure together.
11  The enemy may have recourse to steel instead of poison.
12  Painted steel is likely to be less durable than other kinds.
13  Sheffield is a major steel town.
14  It's possible to weld stainless steel to ordinary steel.
15  The standard spec includes stainless steel holding tanks.