How to Use girder in a Sentence

girder

noun
  • There were pigeons that lived with him, in the girders.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Gaze at the 2 ½ foot, 75-pound piece of steel girder, which was once part of the World Trade Center.
    — cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The covid-19 virus has dropped from the sky, much like the girder that narrowly missed Flitcraft.
    — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • In the spring of 2019, crews will start topping the supports with steel girders.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • A big steel girder would have been nice or steel plate for our Naval fleet.
    — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 24 July 2017
  • The tower's steel girders shivered and, with a mighty screech, bent in two.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The bridge’s other girder would be a wall between the station and a trail.
    — Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Beneath the girders of the city’s bridge across the Euphrates, three 18-year-olds return home from school for lunch.
    — John Daniszewski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • A redesign of the bridges' hanger rods doubled the stress placed on a the fourth-floor walkway's girders.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Galarza said the new structure will be a single-span steel plate girder bridge.
    — Tommy Wright, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
  • That’s when the load clipped the overpass, damaging a girder, as the truck passed beneath it.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The fractured section of the I-40 bridge's tie girder was removed June 21.
    — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2021
  • Long after the last steel girder is hauled away, and the last chunk of concrete is scooped up, the arenas will dance in our dreams.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2019
  • The woman tried to take a selfie and fell off the girders, landing 60 feet below on a trail.
    — Megan Friedman, Seventeen, 6 Apr. 2017
  • The lobby is eight stories of open air topped by steel girders and a glass ceiling.
    — Keith Sharon, Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
  • The truck's front-left tire started to fall between the girders, but the truck stopped before falling through.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Then, crews can install the girders and begin work on a new concrete deck.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
  • For added strength, the concrete girders are filled with steel cables and rebar.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 22 June 2018
  • But two of the three major girders holding up one section of the bridge had snapped, and the third girder was cracking.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
  • There turned out to be a difference in the construction sequence of the girders.
    — John Brant, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
  • There were stories about the arrival of the steel superstructure, built in the Bay Area, and of the concrete girders, made in Long Beach.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Steel girders, a flaming barrel, a little man in red-and-blue overalls, an ape at the top.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Fire investigators estimated that the fire under the bridge reached at least 2,000 degrees when the steel girders began to melt.
    — Mike Schell, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024

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