Definition: 1. Covered with or consisting of rust. 2. Of the color of rust. 3. Impaired in skill by neglect. 4. Ancient.
Use 'rusty' in a sentence:
1. She picked it up. It was dirty and rusty.
2. The lock on the door is rusty and won't open.
3. Her hair was rusty brown.
4. Rusty nodded as though she understood the old woman.
5. To keep warm they burnt wood in a rusty oil barrel.
6. You may be a little rusty, but past experience and teaching skills won't have been lost.
7. Keep up your English, or it will get rusty.
8. I had a student come by yesterday and ask he's a little rusty in his math skills if he should take this course.
9. I haven't used my French for years and it's getting rusty.
10. I haven't played the piano for ages—I may be a little rusty.
11. My English has got rusty; I must brush it up.
12. His English is rusty.
13. A rusty ironrod projected mournfully from one of the window ledges.
14. He was rusty on both ends of the court.
15. How can it happen that so many machine parts got rusty?
16. If your back garden shed is cluttered with a broken lawnmower, rusty bicycles and a range of unused garden tools then prepare to be amazed.
17. Lying nearly 4000 metres down in the Atlantic. It's rusty and covered in sea life, but still recognisable more than one hundred years after the Titanic sank.
18. Study on Mechanical Property of Rusty Rebar Based on Probability Analysis.
19. I'm a little rusty on it.
20. Rusty and empty beer cans lay about and some broken glass bottles made me mad.
21. I truly never minded caring for Rusty.
22. I haven't practiced my French for months and it's getting rusty.
23. Many temp agencies offer word processing courses to those with rusty office skills.
24. After the meal, they felt rusty, and stiff-jointed, and a little homesick once more.
25. I'm a little rusty on them.
26. It was over this jagged, rusty territory that the moon now loomed.
27. A lack of practice will also lead your English to go rusty.
28. In the rusty red deserts of South Africa, steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth.
29. Ginny tried to sharpen up some rusty typing skills.
30. The vehicles are without exception old, rusty and dented.
31. If the machinery were not maintained properly, It would get rusty as time passes.
32. The exhausted man and the trustful guy thrust a knife into the rusty crust.
33. He found what he seemed to want--a rusty old butcher knife and a whetstone.
34. He passed a cairn of stones that once had been a chimney, and a dry well covered with a slab of the tin so rusty it served as more warning than a safeguard.
35. I haven't played the piano for ages ─ I may be a little rusty.
36. My tennis is very rusty these days.
37. We spent years travelling around in a rusty old van.
38. A thin curl of smoke rose from a rusty stove.
39. The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.
40. He looked down to relieve the pain of his neck, and stared at the rusty chain at his feet, which coiled around a metal rod.
41. The bike is rusty but usable.
42. The box was fastened with a rusty wire.
43. She swiped at Rusty as though he was a fly.
44. There was a rusty lawn mower, a broken wicker laundry basket, a Blue China saucer with a crack in it, and a cane rocking chair with a hole in the seat.
45. There was a rusty lawnmower, a broken wicker laundry basket, a blue china saucer with a crack in the house, and a cane rocking chair with a hole in the seat.
46. These substances leak from the rusty barrels and pollute the soil.
47. The rusty hinges grated as the gate swung back.
48. The rusty hinges creaked when the door opened.
