How to Use steelwork in a Sentence

steelwork

noun
  • The closer her patients live to the steelworks, the more acute their symptoms.
    The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Seven decades later, the whole country knew the process, and the steelworks of England burned bright.
    Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • And once again, the steelworks of the New World played a decisive role in the Allies’ victory.
    Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Much like zombies in Day of the Dead, the flayed are drawn to the steelworks where their bodies literally melt.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 July 2019
  • The cheeky mashup of skater decor and light industrial steelwork.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Derrick thinks Tata was never going to shut down the steelworks last year.
    Samuel Earle, New Republic, 6 June 2017
  • The soldiers said it was used to transport munitions parts that were molded in the steelworks.
    Gal Koplewitz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The 62-year-old man wanted his steelworks factory back.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Two years ago, its steelworks -- the main source of income for many in the town -- closed with the loss of 3,000 jobs, a victim of falling steel prices worldwide spurred by cheap imports from China.
    Jane Merrick For Cnn, CNN, 18 May 2017
  • Construction crews placed an American flag on top of the structure Tuesday evening to mark the completion of the steelwork.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 23 May 2018
  • The sprawling steelworks was the last bastion of resistance as Russian forces took control of the port city of Mariupol.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
  • In the afternoon, there was an emergency meeting of the North Lincolnshire Council, to support the steelworks.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 July 2019
  • Inside, the 5,113 square feet of living space features reclaimed barn-wood oak floors, custom steelwork and a chef's kitchen that opens to a large great room and family room.
    Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • Reclaimed barn-wood floors, marble walls and custom steelwork add visual interest to the 5,113 square feet of living space.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Demolition of the east parking lot at Westfield High School has begun as well as steelwork for the new addition.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2019
  • The nets are nearly invisible from a distance, blending into the steelwork.
    John Branch Jim Wilson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • With the decline of the big industries, coal mines, shipyards and steelworks, by 2010 white-collar Labour voters outnumbered blue-collar voters.
    Stephen Castle, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The look is lighter, fresher -- a clean, creamy expanse of whitewashed brick walls, tufted banquettes, steelwork windows, pops of jade, and towering palm trees and birds of paradise providing coastal atmospherics.
    Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Ultimately, though, her writing has been an art not so much of lies but of steelwork: turning the hard metal of autobiography into something molten, a substance that sparks and hisses and flows.
    The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The area, home to Poland’s largest concentration of heavy industries from steelworks to carmakers, is the country’s second-richest behind only the capital, Warsaw.
    Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2020
  • And in that, the steelworks company behind them boasts, these decoy weapons are remarkably successful: hundreds have been targeted by Russian forces almost as soon as they were deployed.
    Melissa Bell, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But the interiors are contemporary with exposed steelwork and timber floors.
    Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Excluding power plants, the largest individual sources of carbon pollution in Europe are all steelworks.
    Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But his semi-retired father, Dave, recalls halcyon days when football was the Saturday afternoon pastime for workers in the coal mining and steelworks industries.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Lanarkshire was run by the Colville family before nationalization and Motherwell’s domination by the great steelworks of Ravenscraig.
    Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Rebuilding all the steelworks; refashioning the cement works; recycling or replacing the plastics; transforming farms on all continents.
    The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The physical and ecological wages of steelwork had significant ramifications for their wives and families.
    Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2021

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