How to Use rust belt in a Sentence
rust belt
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Drive through Toledo, Akron, or the rest of the rust belt.
—Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
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This town called Millwood, which is a less affluent town, is a rust belt town down on its luck.
—Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2022
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Well, President Trump is getting back to the basics with a message about job creation in the heart of the rust belt.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
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On Saturday, Glor will discuss the changes that have been made throughout Cleveland and the rust belt in the decades since the iconic fires.
—CBS News, 21 June 2019
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Northeast Ohio steps in for the suburban college town of Blacksmith and its rust belt urban center Iron City during the 1980s.
—Joey Morona, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
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It’s nature carved out of rust belt, Midwest grittiness.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2020
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Just the tonic In Scotland’s rust belt, where the decline of coal and steel has left a legacy of high unemployment and social decay, Abdul Majid has run a small grocery store for 34 years.
—Alastair Jamieson, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2018
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China’s rust belt, in the northeast, saw its population drop by 1.2 percent in the past decade, according to census figures released on Tuesday.
—New York Times, 22 May 2021
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The fertility rate in Liaoning, a province in China’s northern rust belt, is at 0.74, official data show.
—WSJ, 29 Apr. 2018
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Without creative thinking, the fossil fuel industry will collapse, and Houston will turn into a warmer, wetter rust belt.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2020
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Birth rates in the three rust belt northeastern provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, for example, are the lowest in China at barely half the national average of 1.69 children per woman.
—Time, 2 Mar. 2021
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Putin responded by sending Russian troops and paramilitaries to occupy large portions of the country, including its industrial rust belt in the east.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 9 July 2018
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So bitcoin miners, who care more about electricity costs than location, happily moved into renewable-powered rust belts around the world.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 18 June 2019
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Now the Democrats ran up the popular vote with lopsided victories in a handful of very liberal high-population states while falling just short of carrying a handful of more culturally conservative states in the rust belt and upper Midwest.
—Damon Linker, TheWeek, 15 Sep. 2020
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But then came the industrial decline, and Duluth became just another rust belt community suffering an economic hangover.
—James Fallows, CBS News, 6 May 2018
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Individuals, families, and employers located in three rust belt states — Wisconsin, Illinois, and Pennsylvania — also have Democratic governors who are calling on their state legislatures to enact billions of dollars in higher state taxes in 2021.
—Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
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