How to Use ingot in a Sentence

ingot

noun
  • 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
  • New for the era is the brass ingot on the front quarter panel.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • After the program aired, Gay sold three ingots on eBay.
    — 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
  • The case for preferring mining shares to ingots is twofold.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • For instance, dumplings are given the shape of gold ingots to invoke good fortune.
    — Mario Poceski, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Vikings also used coins, lead ingots and copper ingots as forms of payment.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The ingot was put on display at the Manx Museum, officials said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Experts identified the artifact as a 1,000-year-old silver ingot from the Viking Age.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • 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
  • Engraved ingots made of real or imitation gold are staples in many Chinese homes for Lunar New Year – which was only days away.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The discovery of the ingots provides further evidence that the company’s mines in the region served as an important center for the Roman Empire.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 May 2024

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