At the state opening, the Black Rods escorted the foreign dignitaries into the chamber.

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.

The technician inspected the tie rods before the vehicle safety inspection.

The museum displayed several Rhineland rods from the early industrial era.

By mid-afternoon the clouds broke and it began to rain stair rods, forcing everyone to take shelter.

We postponed the picnic because it was raining stair rods all afternoon.

It rains stair rods every summer afternoon.

It rained stair rods all afternoon, flooding the cellar and turning the lane into a stream.

The machinist fed the nail rod into the cutter to produce hundreds of nails for the shipment.