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
All three bridge spans have been outfitted with 24-hour measuring devices, plus closed-circuit cameras within the girder sections where cracks formed in the 2010s.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022
The rise of white collar work in downtown L.A. — and the invention of elevators and steel girder construction — also contributed to skyline development at the turn of the century, Deverell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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 peered at the girder, waiting for the little falcons to thrust up their heads.
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
A short while later, in the shade of the metal girders, the Director of the Railway Authority's Construction Preparation Department Pavel Paidar shook his head in disagreement.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
The rotted timbers collapsed and the pickup fell between the girders and then it went through the ice and was gone.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
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