Word Image
plural: irons
Part Of Speech
noun
Word Meaning
a heavy magnetic silver-white metallic element that quickly rusts in moist air, occurs in meteorites and rocks, and is widely used; a household device with a flat metal base that is heated to smooth or press cloth; something made of iron as in handcuffs or chains, or a branding tool
Word Family
ironed
ironing
ironclad
Sentences
My aunt used to iron everything, including underwear!
If you are anemic, you are low on the iron stores in your body.
I watched my mother ironing clothes in the kitchen when I was little.
When they used to say, “Put him in irons”, it meant chains or iron handcuffs on a prisoner.
My new iron is shiny silver and has many heat and steam settings.
The blacksmith heated the iron in the furnace until it glowed red.
The ship’s anchor, a heavy iron mass, plunged into the ocean.
The storm’s wrath was an iron fist pounding the coast.
The city skyline was a forest of glass and iron, reaching for the sky.
An iron furnace still stood in the remnants of the old home’s cellar.
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