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
A 24-by-6-inch piece broke from the flange of one structural girder, Pihlstrom said.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023
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
I follow a girder diagonally across the screen so I don’t have to look at him.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
Ms. Ando, one of more than 30 artists and city officials whom the authors spoke to, decided on steel girders nearly three stories tall that had fallen from the top of Tower Two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Masonry, metal girders and piles of sand are everywhere along the pavements.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
Every class gets a tour of the high-speed rail construction sites, where they see up close the viaducts and girders that are being put up every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
The final box girders were swung into place at the end of 1963, covered in the Union Flag and Lion Rampant to mark the occasion.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
Tobias slides along one of the girders and puts his leg under me.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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