1.   Now it was raining hard outside, great heavy unmerciful rain slanting out of the sky like steel rods.

2.   The following day, the doctors pin together her bone with three tiny steel rods that will stay in her hand for ever.

3.   The walls are reinforced with steel rods.

4.   The walls were strengthened with steel rods.

5.   Concrete pillars for highway bridges that previously only had steel rods inside are now enclosed in steel.

6.   Although Dotson is only a paraplegic, he must contend with steel rods in his back and a weakened left side.

7.   At the site, soldiers dump the snow into a giant frame made of steel rods and wood.

8.   At the wall corners, post-tension steel rods are placed at the bottom and top to help lock the blocks in place.

9.   Bare steel rods stick out of a downtown Ramallah shopping mall.

10.   A few weeks ago, somebody took a steel rod and smacked up those two statues of Tritons, Greek sea gods, that adorn the fountain.