Examples of rod in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Everyone has the usual fence, and inside there are rods to dry the laundry on. Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 As group then pushes into the store, the clerk tries to defend himself with what appears to be a metal rod, but he is repeatedly struck as others in the group steal merchandise, knock over displays and jump onto the cashier counter, the video shows. Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024 Moving from container to container, Murray used a metal rod to free each box from its bonds. USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024 Super-pure quartz, mined and produced at few facilities around the world, is used to ensure the purity of molten silicon used as the base for manufacturing semiconductor wafers, as well as for semiconductor crucibles and quartz glass products like windows, rods, and tubes. Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rod 

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“Rod.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rod. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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