cantilever

I love this house at 10 o’clock because of the cantilever and the shadows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

The giant cantilever crane at Greenock's James Watt Dock, built in 1917 in the midst of World War One, was another project led by the engineering firm Arroll.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

When the cantilever is placed on one of the nanoparticles, a current is passed through its tip to measure the conductivity.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2024

Columns sway back and forth, like a cantilever swing, creating ample space for large groups to walk through.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

This river we crossed by a wooden bridge, built on the cantilever principle, and which a couple of months later was washed away.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

Spanning about 14,400 square feet, the six-bedroom residence cantilevers over the ocean and has a retractable wooden roof.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Filled with surprising patios, alleys and landings, it’s one of his forays into postmodernism: brightly colored buildings contain, among other features, gabled brick rooflines, extra-bulky columns, long cantilevers and cylindrical steel elevators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

Rapidly-sinking rays streaming through the gaps of the cantilevers onto the pitch.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024

Where the top level extends cantilevers out to create a covered porch, it is supported by a pair of tree trunks that Austin’s builder, Kaplan Homes, found washed up on the beach.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

If vertical stirrups acted to reinforce little vertical cantilevers, there would have to be a large number of them, so that each little segment of the beam would be insured reinforcement.

From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Edward Godfrey

Its panels of fiberglass-reinforced polymer are ingenious, significantly lightening the weight of a daringly cantilevered structure near the San Andreas fault in the Exposition Park neighborhood of South L.A.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Glazed-earthenware cylinders with rounded tops support hefty forms on their sides that seem to be invisibly cantilevered from the central mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Marx’s background is in fashion journalism, and “Blank Space” can feel unduly cantilevered toward that world, detailing the history of hip lines like A Bathing Ape and luxury brands’ uncomfortable embrace of streetwear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

As the sun set on a cloudy evening in Times Square on Friday, a 65-foot-long frankfurter cantilevered into the sky and spewed out a blast of rainbow confetti.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2024

You are looking at the only cantilevered structure of its kind on earth.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

That could include tunneling, cantilevering lanes or other ideas the private sector might suggest to limit Beltway widening, he said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2019

Museum and designer retreated from the idea of cantilevering a wing over the principal tar pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

It was nowhere to be seen at the Oscars, where Jennifer Lawrence’s black lace Dior gown was free of obvious cantilevering.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2016

“His body is cantilevering, but he’s fortunate at one point to get his left foot on the ground to brace against the momentum of the football striking his hand.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2014

It's a taxidermist's dream, with massive forelegs and a rack that should need cantilevering.

From Time Magazine Archive