How to Use ingot in a Sentence

ingot

noun
  • My job was to kind of ferry big boxes of ingots around.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • New for the era is the brass ingot on the front quarter panel.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes bullion is sold as ingots or bars and sometimes as coins.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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 first is the melting tank, where lead ingots will be loaded and liquified.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
  • For instance, dumplings are given the shape of gold ingots to invoke good fortune.
    — Mario Poceski, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • Over 150,000 tons of copper ingots a year.
    — Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Vikings also used coins, lead ingots and copper ingots as forms of payment.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • The ingots were about 75 miles east of Norfolk, at a depth of around 131 feet.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 June 2026
  • The team found three ingots that each weigh over 150 pounds—about the size of a standard washing machine.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 June 2026
  • Due to their shape resembling an ancient Chinese gold ingot, dumplings are a symbol of wealth.
    — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The first component is the melting tank, where lead ingots are loaded and liquefied.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The hearing came just days after a massive ingot from the shipwreck sold at auction for over $2 million.
    — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Another photo shows an ancient Roman ingot found near the spring.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 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
  • The ingot was put on display at the Manx Museum, officials said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • This results in silvery, 2-kilogram ingots pure enough to sell to a manufacturer that makes new cans.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • For gentlemen smugglers, the most convenient format was the ingot.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • 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
  • These metals are refined on site, ingots poured and stacked, barrels upon barrels massed neatly at the river port, ready for shipping.
    — Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 light is directed onto a crucible inside a solar reactor, and melts metal scraps that are then cast into new ingots.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In 2001, an 80-pound ingot was bought by a private collector for a record $8 million.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The ingots are worth about $8,000 total, according to police reports.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
  • This kit packs in a lot—you’ll notice a fan with two magpies, a vase of fortune red fruit, a persimmon fruit, three golden ingots, and a calligraphy pen with a scroll.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 4 Feb. 2026

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