After hours on the lake, the anglers packed their spinning rods into the truck bed.

During the Great Depression, some desperate drifters would ride the rods to reach distant towns.

The luthier adjusted the truss rods to correct the guitar neck's bow.

The chef displayed a tray of sizzling meat rods, each pierced with a wooden skewer.

The museum displayed a set of Napier's rods used by merchants to simplify multiplication in the seventeenth century.

On Sunday mornings, a row of gleaming hot rods lined the boardwalk, attracting tourists and gearheads alike.

The gallery installed picture rods along the wall to display the new collection.

The artist carefully arranged the Mosaical rods on the panel to form a vibrant pattern.

The geophysicists lowered the sounding rods into the borehole to measure groundwater levels.

During the bone marrow review, the pathologist noted several Auer rods in the myeloblasts, strongly supporting a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia.