Example sentences for: irons

How can you use “irons” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • .. The phrase refers to the blacksmith's forge, where if the smith had too many irons heating in the fire at the same time, he couldn't do his job properly, as he was unable to use them all before some had cooled off.

  • A gap-toothed old woman yelped that the federal government is "getting boxcars prepared with some kind of leg irons in 'em to fasten you into place to ship you to concentration camps."

  • Irons and Malkovich bring to the picture two distinct styles of prissiness.

  • This adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1846 swashbuckler "transforms its august stars [Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne, Gérard Depardieu, and John Malkovich] into something akin to a manic dinner-theater troupe" ( Slate 's David Edelstein).

  • All day, this gangling, bug-eyed oddball plays Scriabin on his grand piano while Shandurai dusts, vacuums, sews, irons, and launders.


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