cantilever
Example Sentences
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It shows the home at night, with two young women sitting inside in a cantilevered corner, its floor-to-ceiling windows revealing the lights of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times
“I wanted it to feel cantilevered and light because I didn’t want it to block the views,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times
In this manner, the cantilevered base of the building need not carry any load beyond the first eight stories, a solution that would make the base lighter and cheaper.
At one point he even threatened to chop off a cantilevered corner of the building if the complications around its construction were not quickly resolved.
From BBC
His striking home was perched above the boulevard, its wood and glass cantilevered over a concrete base.
From Los Angeles Times
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