1.   Doctors had to use a metal rod to join the two pieces of bone together.

2.   Doctors used a metal rod to join the two pieces of bone together.

3.   He pressed himself against a metal rod.

4.   They dropped down wearily on metal rods.

5.   This time it was a piece of wire mesh on a metal rod.

6.   When nothing happened he remembered the short metal rod Father Conroy had given him.

7.   On the left was the privy, covered by a curtain which hung from a metal rod.

8.   A metal rod was driven through her abdomen in a bus and trolley-car accident when she was young.

9.   Above the bar, a shirtless customer dangles upside down from a metal rod as a bartender tries to pour a drink down his throat.