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
  • 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
  • Seven decades later, the whole country knew the process, and the steelworks of England burned bright.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Last month, its third-largest steelworks collapsed into government control.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Above the water line, the timber parts of the bridge (most visibly the road surface) are all new, and the steelwork got some repairs and fresh paint.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • Blending into the steelwork, the nets are nearly invisible from a distance.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
  • The nets are nearly invisible from a distance, blending into the steelwork.
    — John Branch Jim Wilson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • And once again, the steelworks of the New World played a decisive role in the Allies’ victory.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Ukraine's mining towns are an essential link of the dwindling supply chain keeping the national steelworks industry afloat.
    — Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The town dates to the Middle Ages and has long been defined by coal mining, followed by steelworks and manufacturing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • 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
  • Soaring glass panels and steelwork recall the architecture of the nearby Grand Palais, but with a modern touch.
    — Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But before achieving stardom, Hopkins grew up in Port Talbot—a small Welsh steelworks town—amid war and depression.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Inside Thyssenkrupp’s green hydrogen steel plant In Duisburg, Germany, a decades-old steelworks is getting a green overhaul.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Excluding power plants, the largest individual sources of carbon pollution in Europe are all steelworks.
    — Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • There were even significant variations in concentrations around the Port Talbot steelworks at different times of day.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024
  • 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
  • In Wales, pollutant concentrations are high near the Port Talbot steelworks, which is the city’s main employer but also a major health hazard.
    — Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2024
  • In short, the Duisburg project is both a pilot plant and a blueprint, showing how legacy steelworks can hybridize blast-furnace islands into modern, multi-technology hubs.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • In 2016, the population voted overwhelmingly for Brexit; three years later, the steelworks was at risk of closure, in part because of trade uncertainties caused by the vote.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

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