Steel is an English word with synonyms like alloy or poise. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Steel in a sentence
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Steel meaning
- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
Synonyms of Steel
Using Steel
- The main meaning on this page is: An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. | Any item made of this metal, particularly including: | Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- Useful related words include: alloy, poise, brace, nerve.
- In the example corpus, steel often appears in combinations such as: steel and, of steel, the steel.
Context around Steel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 16 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Steel
- In this selection, "steel" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nippon, stainless, carbon, sheets, guitar and products stand out and add context to how "steel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a british steel spokesman said, a steel plant built, steel products, stainless steel and nippon steel. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "steel" sits close to words such as eat, humans and schedule, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with steel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In the post-Independence era, the steel industry was predominated by PSU steel plants and Steel. (16 words)
Bamnipal Steel, a step down subsidiary of Steel, succefully bid for Bhushan Steel, which has since been renamed Tata Steel BSL. (21 words)
High carbon stainless steel is stainless steel with a higher amount of carbon, intended to incorporate the better attributes of carbon steel and stainless steel. (25 words)
By material Steel dams main Red Ridge steel dam, built 1905, Michigan A steel dam is a type of dam briefly experimented with around the start of the 20th century which uses steel plating (at an angle) and load-bearing beams as the structure. (44 words)
In the book, Dixon compares blockchains to steel and the Web 2.0 internet to wood — when steel first came about, most people thought it was unnecessary because wood worked fine, but then things changed drastically once steel was adopted at scale. (42 words)
A steel plant built with Japanese support after Deng’s visit has surpassed its model: The China Baowu Steel Group is now the world’s second-largest steel-maker, overtaking Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal, according to the World Steel Association. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
The company offers steel plates; hot- and cold-rolled steel sheets and coils, coated steel sheets, color coated steel sheets, electrolytic tin plates, and electrical steel sheets; bar and rod materials; and structural steel products.
Table steel guitar main The console steel guitar (also known as a table steel guitar) is an electric instrument, intermediate between the lap steel from which it developed and the pedal steel which in turn developed from the console steel.
A steel plant built with Japanese support after Deng’s visit has surpassed its model: The China Baowu Steel Group is now the world’s second-largest steel-maker, overtaking Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal, according to the World Steel Association.
Three kinds of steel were used in shipbuilding: mild steel for bulkheads, a mixture of mild steel and high tensile steel for the hull, and special treatment steel for armor plate.
A British Steel spokesman said: “Steel is vital to modern economies and with demand expected to grow over the coming decades, British Steel has a vital role to play in ensuring the UK has its own supply of high-quality steel.
Bamnipal Steel, a step down subsidiary of Steel, succefully bid for Bhushan Steel, which has since been renamed Tata Steel BSL.
Its steel products include hot rolled sheets, cold rolled sheets, galvanized steel sheets, color coating plates, silicon steel, medium and thick plates, wire rods, heavy sections, and seamless steel pipes.
By material Steel dams main Red Ridge steel dam, built 1905, Michigan A steel dam is a type of dam briefly experimented with around the start of the 20th century which uses steel plating (at an angle) and load-bearing beams as the structure.
High carbon stainless steel is stainless steel with a higher amount of carbon, intended to incorporate the better attributes of carbon steel and stainless steel.
While iron alloyed with carbon is called carbon steel, alloy steel is steel to which other alloying elements have been intentionally added to modify the characteristics of steel.
A Tata Steel spokesperson said: "Our proposals would secure the long-term future for steel making in Port Talbot, bolster UK steel security, and help develop a green industrial ecosystem in south Wales.
I prefer to label this as low-carbon steel or low-emission steel, the right technical word, to refer to steel manufactured with technology that reduces emissions.
Nippon said the acquisition is anticipated to bring its total annual crude steel capacity to 86 million tons and help it capitalize on growing demand for high-grade steel, automotive and electrical steel.
ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel targets to capture 50 per cent market share of steel used in the solar energy segment with the launch of highly corrosion resistant steel Magnelis, the global brand of ArcelorMittal.
In the book, Dixon compares blockchains to steel and the Web 2.0 internet to wood — when steel first came about, most people thought it was unnecessary because wood worked fine, but then things changed drastically once steel was adopted at scale.
Nippon Steel has said it is the only company that can make the necessary investment in U.S. Steel’s factories and strengthen the American steel industry.
That campaign has included Nippon Steel's to boost its capital commitments beyond the original deal and, more recently, a pledge that it won’t import steel slabs that would compete with U.S. Steel’s blast furnaces.
It is worth noting that the steel-steel CMF panel is only one-third of the weight of the solid steel plate that failed the test in about 12 minutes.
ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel firm, on Monday formally completed the acquisition of the insolvent Essar Steel, marking the entry of a foreign firm into manufacturing of steel in India.
In the post-Independence era, the steel industry was predominated by PSU steel plants and Steel.
Phrases with steel
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with steel
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- steel and 33×
- of steel 29×
- the steel 21×
- steel products 18×
- and steel 18×
- stainless steel 16×
- nippon steel 14×
- steel is 13×
- tata steel 12×
- steel production 11×