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  • noun Attributive form of steel wool

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Examples

  • The steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery were already in his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Dear Heloise: To keep steel-wool pads longer, when in use put them in aluminum foil.

    Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010

  • Then he removed the steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery from his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Then he removed the steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery from his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • The steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery were already in his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • A soft-spoken man in his late fifties, with a full head of steel-wool hair and a wardrobe of dark business suits, Tuyakbay impressed me as level-headed and resolute when we met for lunch at the Tabard Inn, in Washington, D.C. "The structure of power," he told me, "is totally corrupt."

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • A soft-spoken man in his late fifties, with a full head of steel-wool hair and a wardrobe of dark business suits, Tuyakbay impressed me as level-headed and resolute when we met for lunch at the Tabard Inn, in Washington, D.C. "The structure of power," he told me, "is totally corrupt."

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • A soft-spoken man in his late fifties, with a full head of steel-wool hair and a wardrobe of dark business suits, Tuyakbay impressed me as level-headed and resolute when we met for lunch at the Tabard Inn, in Washington, D.C. "The structure of power," he told me, "is totally corrupt."

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • The steel-wool darkness and drifting light behind threw Harry into poor-postured silhouette against the open doorway.

    The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

  • So I sometimes ignore instructions not to use soaped steel-wool or metal scouring pads or other, stronger cleaning methods on my stainless-steel cookware.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

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