girder
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Scanning the rubble, Ali caught sight of a pink, soot-covered pair of girls’ tracksuit bottoms, hanging from a steel girder jutting out of the heap.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
Last week, the final girder was installed on the crossing, completing the foundation and marking a construction milestone.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
A new Montlake Interchange is now being built, followed by a concrete girder Portage Bay Bridge, a scenic north Capitol Hill lid, and a busway from 520 into the I-5 Express Lanes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
They can also penetrate materials that x-rays cannot, enabling researchers to image the interiors of big objects such as a running engine or a steel girder.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 2, 2021
She dropped from the upper bow to the wide, horizontal girder.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Starting in 2023, they tore out its center and moved steel girders until they resembled Swiss cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Masonry, metal girders and piles of sand are everywhere along the pavements.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
Checkpoints and barricades, walls of sandbags and tank traps welded from steel girders were rushed out onto Kyiv's broad boulevards.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
Meanwhile, South King County motorists should beware of overnight shutdowns of I-5 this weekend, while contractors lift 10 bridge girders above the freeway at South 216th Street, as part of a Highway 509 extension project.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
I looked up at the black girders of the huge bridge and saw a figure scamper precariously from perch to perch.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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