How to Use ingot in a Sentence

ingot

noun
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  • For instance, dumplings are given the shape of gold ingots to invoke good fortune.
    — Mario Poceski, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Other photographs showed the drawer of the night stand stuffed with 500-euro notes and gold ingots.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • In a berth behind the Swan Ace, ingots of aluminum were being unloaded from another freighter, the St. Paul.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Lead ingots had to be placed just ahead of the mast to get the sloop to measure to the One-Ton rule.
    — Bill Center, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2017
  • To either add salt to the slurry or to drop in the ingots, a hefty hoist had to lift off the hefty lid.
    — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The gas cap, which looks like an ingot, is in fact plastic.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 7 July 2020
  • When the crucibles cooled, ingots of pure steel lay inside.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • The slurry’s job was to shape and mold chunks of uranium called ingots.
    — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Men melt the metal over open fires to make ingots, sending acrid smoke into the air.
    — Larry C. Price, National Geographic, 31 May 2016
  • The ingots that emerged from the smelter were more uniform, stronger, and less brittle–the best steel that Europe, and perhaps the world, had ever seen.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Hasebe is standing in her kitchen, gently shaping an ingot of sushi rice for nigiri in the palm of her right hand.
    — Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • And like the headphones, the HA 200 feels as if it has been milled from a solid ingot of non-magnetic aluminum.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Chilean seabass proved that point, a glazed ingot of pearled fish with overtones of pineapple and citrus resting on fried rice with lump crab.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2018
  • Sometimes bullion is sold as ingots or bars and sometimes as coins.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The hearing came just days after a massive ingot from the shipwreck sold at auction for over $2 million.
    — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Currently, no silicon ingots or wafers are made in the U.S.
    — Jeff Amy, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Due to their shape resembling an ancient Chinese gold ingot, dumplings are a symbol of wealth.
    — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 20 Jan. 2023
  • When ships arrive at port with zinc concentrate, or tie up to take on zinc ingots, the rigs haul triple-trailers and loop the 30 km from port to plant and back nonstop for as many as eight days.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The chassis is stout – so stiff that it feels carved from a single ingot of alloy – meaning squeaks and rattles are non-existent.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Before uranium ingots could be lowered into the slurry, that lid had to come off via a crane stationed in Plant 6.
    — cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The researchers also found a seal made from agate, adorned with a carving of a ship; three large vases made of copper; and ingots of bronze and tin — one of the largest caches of raw metal ever found in Crete.
    — Fox News, 12 Dec. 2019
  • People will see the deity off, wishing for a prosperous year and eating wonton resembling the shape of an ingot.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The ingots are worth about $8,000 total, according to police reports.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
  • Another photo shows an ancient Roman ingot found near the spring.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The artwork will depict eight dogs and a moon gate in an Asian garden with gold coins and ingots — symbolizing good fortune — and a firecracker overhead.
    — Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Sanctions against Iran failed to halt the construction of the complex, a steel mill that went into operation in September and now churns out ingots and billets.
    — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2016
  • Shortly after, Nemo began bringing up ingots and coins, and along with them, a time capsule from the previous century.
    — Karla Zabludovsky, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2014
  • The ancient kit contained a bronze knife with a curved blade, an awl decorated with ladders and rows of triangles, and a bronze chisel, along with an assortment of bronze scraps and small ingots.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
  • To help perpetuate the fraud, organizers showed customers the glistening inside of a vault which appeared to hold their gold ingots.
    — Joseph J. Luzinski and Alexandra Youngman, miamiherald, 11 Mar. 2018
  • At recycling plants, lead is removed from batteries, ground up, melted and turned into ingots that are used to make new batteries.
    — Steve Fisher Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023

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