Girders

Word GIRDERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Girders"

What do we mean by girders?

A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.

One who girds; a satirist.

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The word "girders" in example sentences

The towering tangle of iron girders is in fact the framework for what will soon turn into a temple for Mexico's national sport -- la charrería. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some of the girders from the World Trade Center, another brawny symbol of U.S. economic strength that also happens to be owned by the Port Authority, have come to rest here. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The reason why wooden props are still generally preferred to iron girders is that a wooden prop which is about to collapse gives warning by creaking, whereas a girder flies out un-expectedly. ❋ Unknown (1937)

Anna blinked, then smiled, hoping that her visualization of the hall and the idea of girders or I-beams or whatever they were would suffice over the years ahead, but she couldn't afford anything that verged on Darksong, not the way she felt. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1999)

The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal "girders" and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. ❋ Unknown (1998)

I came to the great shed of glass and girders which is the station, the night being perfectly soundless, moonless, starless, and the hour about eleven. ❋ Unknown (1906)

For these two, the personal can never be untangled from the political since every move they make is overshadowed by the threat of Rome – literally, in Peter McKintosh's soaring set with its towering stone walls, iron girders, glass walls and overhanging gantry looming above and around the glittering oriental lamps and sumptuous fabrics of the Egyptian court. ❋ Clare Brennan (2010)

But laying concrete and raising girders employs a lot of people, especially the way those tasks are done in China, so this will be an option for some of the migrant workers now being sent home from factories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

McKitterick followed, emerging onto a weed-choked asphalt plane encompassing the remnants of a series of low buildings, a landscape of vine-covered bricks and rusted girders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's possible that, like me, the gulls are curious to know what an owl might be doing out here in the middle of the Irish Sea, though I can't help wondering if the tangled mess of yellow-painted girders, impossibly twisting pipes and corrugated iron jutting out of the waves doesn't also just remind them of a giant nest on stilts. ❋ Graham Snowdon (2010)

Another wreck, pink plastic faded and smeared, was wedged between two of the girders, upside down. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gym is a heap of collapsed girders and trusses. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Perhaps one day a 21st Century Society will struggle to preserve Canary Wharf, when its girders rust, its glass cracks and grass grows over its concrete decks – preserve it against a retro-Victorian developer and a Poplar Portmeirion. ❋ Simon Jenkins (2010)

I was underneath a jetty, and there were steel girders. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

I run through the night after him the girls give me garlic the girls all pray for me and I pray with the words from the spray-painted walls and the girders that shake on the El and I pray: ❋ Larissa Shmailo (2011)

Bolts and tools, girders and spools of electrical wire. ❋ James Claffey (2011)

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