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Recent Examples of girderRecent close-up inspections found even more damage on the deck, bearings and girders than was revealed initially.—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2024 His legs and feet disappear behind the green girder.—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025 The NapoleonBob 500, a single-seat bobber with a faux girder fork and a throwback aesthetic, is the most interesting of the bikes announced for the US.—New Atlas, 22 Jan. 2025 Benda The fairings over the upside-down telescopic fork legs create the appearance of a pre-war-style girder design.—New Atlas, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for girder
Packed in between curved wooden beams, translucent honeyed yellow square panels filter the weak sunlight into a more inviting summer afternoon hue.
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Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
Let There Be Light – Students explored the properties of light: how a light bulb contains a rainbow of colors, what happens when a beam of laser light is trapped in water, and more.
Not bad for an 80-foot tall, single arch, limestone bridge to carry traffic over 15th Street on the eastern edge of Kansas City.
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Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
We’re known for our iconic white arches and a design aesthetic that blends Santorini minimalism with Tulum’s earthy elegance, all set in the heart of Bali.
Mexican ship headed the wrong way before fatal Brooklyn Bridge crash, reports say
Crew members dangled from mast crossbeams
The ship cleared the dock but moved in reverse toward the bridge, authorities say.
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John Bacon,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
Minutes after clearing the dock, the vessel's three 147-foot (44.8-meter) masts were sheered by the underside of the bridge, Reuters reported, knocking several naval cadets off its crossbeams.
While flat trellises might accent a wall and arbors may provide a covered archway to walk through, pergolas are usually larger and beckon you to sit and relax awhile.
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Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2025
If there's a silver lining to an otherwise senseless spate of arbor violence, Vejar said, the city now has an opportunity to diversify its urban forest.
Social media may help create a lasting nickname that is more on the money than those that were coined by political foes, or from the editorial column of any paper of record.
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Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
Broken flower stems and shorn columns symbolize early death.
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