How to Use cantilever in a Sentence

cantilever

1 of 2 noun

• The porch is supported by steel cantilevers.
• The triple-cantilever structure that is part of the B.Q.E. would be torn down.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
• Part of the lounge juts out from the rest of the Larson Center as a cantilever above the service road.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• At the shoreline a large deck cantilevers over the water.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2019
• To open and close the cantilever patio umbrella, use the simple hand crank on the side of the pole.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2023
• Floor-to-ceiling walls of glass slide open to slender decks that cantilever over the beach with a ship-like view over the ocean.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2023
• The living room ceiling, which extends to the outdoors and cantilevers over the home, is cedar.
  — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• This Piezo sensor is in the shape of a tiny cantilever beam with weight attached on one end that flops with body movement.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2018
• By bending the cantilever, the researchers could apply a very local strain to the crystal.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2018
• The Combs–Hehl Bridge, with its single pier, is also a cantilever design.
  — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
• The cantilever extending over the terrace is the most dramatic feature of the house.
  — Elizabeth Hosang, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2022
• The property is just down the tracks from the 112-year-old cantilever bridge it's named for, now the busiest rail border crossing in North America.
  — Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• At the center of the dispute is a half-mile long cantilever bridge secured to a retaining wall that runs along Brooklyn Heights.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• Rather, the standard would be offset from the shelf's end, giving each shelf a pleasing cantilever about six inches long.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2020
• The custom design of the Spring Valley home was inspired by the owners’ love of cantilevers, angles and levels.
  — Linda Jerkins, ajc, 3 June 2017
• And congestion pricing will take between 7 and 10 percent of the traffic off the triple cantilever.
  — Curbed, 11 July 2023
• The icy Chinese princess Turandot, introduced on a high cantilever from the side, sports a brilliant red robe.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2022
• The cantilever was designed to reach out to its predecessor, tipping its hat.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 May 2020
• In the end, the commission approved the demolition after Extell dropped plans to have the tower cantilever over the steep church roof.
  — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• To make their qubit immune to strain, the researchers created a tiny little cantilever sitting just above it.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2018
• In Stoller’s picture, the cantilever points directly out toward you.
  — Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2019
• Overall, the best cantilever umbrella is this pick from Hampton Bay.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2023
• The original, which was the world’s first one-piece cantilever chair, was designed by Verner Panton in ’59 and first produced by Vitra in ’67.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
• Potato Chip Rock is a slim, seven-foot stone cantilever jutting out from a massive boulder near the summit of Mount Woodson.
  — Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
• Near the kitchen, a den opens to a patio tucked under one of the home’s cantilevers, where a linear fire feature is set against a backdrop of fluttering leaves and twisted branches.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2023
• From its core, large cantilevers span, opening endless uses.
  — Sam Lubell, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
• A laser beam helps the device detect bends in the cantilever, allowing it to take images of the material’s topography on the nanoscale.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 2 June 2016
• Yes If a cantilever umbrella is more your style, this one from Sol 72 Outdoor is an excellent option.
  — Lindsay Boyers, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• The running gear is typically high-end with massive 50 mm forks and a cantilever monoshock, both fully adjustable.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• The Silver has an old-school humpback design (which has since been reintroduced on the Browning A-5) and is available with a cantilever scope mount and rifled slug barrel.
  — Curtis Niedermier, Outdoor Life, 18 Nov. 2019

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cantilever

2 of 2 verb

• The balcony cantilevers over the terrace below.
• Many people rave about tray-style units because your gear can cantilever over the edge a bit.
  — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 28 June 2022
• During construction, crews can cantilever the pieces in place from one side of the river or use cranes to place the segments.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2013
• The bookshelves are cantilevered out from the sides, giving them the appearance of floating from the ceiling.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
• That means Raffles is cantilevered over the club, rising 28 stories over it.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Among Edge's most notable features: A 90-ton platform the size of a tennis court that will be cantilevered over its side.
  — Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
• The crab flopped to the table, its claws cantilevered upward, as if begging for a chance to clip off the fellow's dainty earlobe.
  — Dwight Garner, Town & Country, 5 June 2013
• The red cantilevered stairways look like the ventricles of a heart coursing with glitter blood.
  — Isaac Oliver, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2017
• Many cantilever umbrellas feature a polyester canopy, which can make for strong protection against rain and light wind and is soft to the touch.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
• Void spaces are more likely in V-shaped, lean-to and cantilever collapses.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN, 26 June 2021
• There are six bedrooms, including two on the upper floor that have glass walls and cantilever over the patio below.
  — E.b. Solomont, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
• The house is raised on a pedestal with redwood beams that cantilever out from below on all four sides and on top to hold up the roof, giving it a floating illusion.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• But here, at one end, the wooden box is prodigiously cantilevered some eight feet past its stone foundation wall.
  — Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2019
• Otherwise, on the town’s seafront is Villa Pietra Hotel, with its restaurant cantilevered over the water.
  — Feride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN, 24 May 2023
• For more great ways to outfit your outdoor space, check out our picks for the best fire pits, outdoor sectionals, and cantilever umbrellas.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2022
• Gavin Rea via Designboom And the M3 is a 720-square-foot design with the top module cantilevering over the base, creating a covered carport.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 15 Oct. 2018
• More Private Properties The design of the main house, built in 2009, resembles two cubes stacked on top of one another, with the top cantilevered over the lower level.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• In the new configuration, a canopy, sleek as a knife, now cantilevers over the 53rd Street sidewalk to signal more clearly the museum’s presence.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Sven’s head pivots by a linkage system connected to the performer’s head and body; the weight of his head is cantilevered away from the performer’s neck by a custom orthopedic back brace.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• The controversy, which should never have occurred, should have been over, but the Democrats have managed to cantilever themselves two more steps out on the limb that protrudes over the political abyss.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 1 Aug. 2019
• The fashion for tight bodices that cantilevered breasts into a position where the nipple might be visible proved popular.
  — Rosalind Jana, refinery29.com, 14 May 2020
• The sculpture is a large striped bass (rockfish) made of highly reflective stainless steel that will be cantilevered over a portion of the signature sidewalk in Concord Point Park.
  — Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Many are cantilevered far out over the street, competing for visitors’ attention.
  — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2017
• But while cruising along a quiet country road in Stroudsburg one day, Mr. Bonetti looked up and saw something that would drastically change their plans: a long, boxy modernist house cantilevered off the side of a hill.
  — Tim McKeough, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• At the same time, the stadium removed about 5,200 seats in the lower bowl to make way for a temporary riser system, constructed and cantilevered over the existing lower bowl seats and the sidelines.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2017
• At the same time, the stadium removed about 5,200 seats in the lower bowl to make way for a temporary riser system, constructed and cantilevered over the existing lower bowl seats and the sidelines.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2017
• The Reflection, Celebrity’s largest ship, even offers a suite with a glass shower cantilevered out over the sea (don't worry about peeping Toms; the glass digitally fogs for privacy).
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2018
• One scenario calls for the parish house, built in 1885 as the original sanctuary on the eastern edge of the site, to be knocked down and replaced with an ungainly tower that would cantilever over the rest of the complex like an upside-down ziggurat.
  — Curbed, 18 July 2022
• In the financial district, in a building designed by Sir David Adjaye, the kitchen islands will be made from two rough slabs of stone, one cantilevered over the other — the only things missing are hunks of meat and some Argentine gauchos.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
• For more great outdoor upgrades, check out our coverage of the best outdoor sectionals, smokeless fire pits, and cantilever umbrellas!
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2022

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