beam
Example Sentences
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Is the man napping on a beam in one photograph the same as the one listening to the radio in another?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The gravitational attraction between them caused the suspended beam to rotate slightly, twisting the wire.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
This type of amplifier relies on energy stored in a light beam that acts as a "pump."
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
I point to a beam that runs the length of the attic.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Vocabulary lists containing beam
Engineering - Introductory
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Structural Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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