cantilever
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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
The cantilever portion has the appearance of a vast elongated diamond.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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
A triangular overhang cantilevers above the mahogany front door.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
Slender brick cladding underscores the pavilion’s long horizontal spans and extended cantilevers on either end.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018
What a surprising passion of engineering the spider must go through in the dark hours, to get his struts and cantilevers and his circling gossamer girders properly disposed on the foliage.*
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley
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
Just after sundown, I arrived at the 602-room Fairmont Monte Carlo, cantilevered over the Mediterranean for superb sea views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Network Rail previously worked with Shard developers Sellar on a £1.5bn scheme that proposed to partially demolish the Victorian station and build a new multi-storey tower cantilevered above a neighbouring Grade II* listed former hotel.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
The 4,142-square-foot cantilevered post-and-beam structure, nestled in a woodsy hillside with canyon and coastline views, went on the market for $12 million in April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
You are looking at the only cantilevered structure of its kind on earth.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Atop it was her sewing machine, jars of buttons, a wooden box that unfolded, cantilevering out to reveal spools of thread.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021
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
“Now we’re cantilevering the stairs from top to bottom.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
It's a taxidermist's dream, with massive forelegs and a rack that should need cantilevering.
From Time Magazine Archive
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