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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 three-sided bars — referred to as ingots — were unearthed during the construction of a gas pipeline in Córdoba, southwestern Spain, in the 1990s.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 May 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024