How to Use girder in a Sentence

girder

noun

• There were pigeons that lived with him, in the girders.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• Gaze at the 2 ½ foot, 75-pound piece of steel girder, which was once part of the World Trade Center.
  — cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
• The covid-19 virus has dropped from the sky, much like the girder that narrowly missed Flitcraft.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• In the spring of 2019, crews will start topping the supports with steel girders.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• A big steel girder would have been nice or steel plate for our Naval fleet.
  — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 24 July 2017
• The tower's steel girders shivered and, with a mighty screech, bent in two.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• The bridge’s other girder would be a wall between the station and a trail.
  — Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
• Beneath the girders of the city’s bridge across the Euphrates, three 18-year-olds return home from school for lunch.
  — John Daniszewski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• A redesign of the bridges' hanger rods doubled the stress placed on a the fourth-floor walkway's girders.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2017
• Galarza said the new structure will be a single-span steel plate girder bridge.
  — Tommy Wright, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
• That’s when the load clipped the overpass, damaging a girder, as the truck passed beneath it.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2022
• The fractured section of the I-40 bridge's tie girder was removed June 21.
  — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2021
• Long after the last steel girder is hauled away, and the last chunk of concrete is scooped up, the arenas will dance in our dreams.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2019
• The woman tried to take a selfie and fell off the girders, landing 60 feet below on a trail.
  — Megan Friedman, Seventeen, 6 Apr. 2017
• The lobby is eight stories of open air topped by steel girders and a glass ceiling.
  — Keith Sharon, Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2017
• Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2018
• The truck's front-left tire started to fall between the girders, but the truck stopped before falling through.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
• For added strength, the concrete girders are filled with steel cables and rebar.
  — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 22 June 2018
• But two of the three major girders holding up one section of the bridge had snapped, and the third girder was cracking.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
• There turned out to be a difference in the construction sequence of the girders.
  — John Brant, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
• There were stories about the arrival of the steel superstructure, built in the Bay Area, and of the concrete girders, made in Long Beach.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2019
• Steel girders, a flaming barrel, a little man in red-and-blue overalls, an ape at the top.
  — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
• The next morning the girder had shrunk or expanded to fit and the construction of the bridge was concluded.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
• In the upper left-hand corner is a brilliant blue image of a man on a metal girder.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2022
• Since the wood is pretty unreliable the safest way across is via the metal girders.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 July 2018
• But this 6-foot-long section of steel girder was recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center.
  — Jens Stoltenberg, WSJ, 24 May 2017
• The three machines crowd the brick-and-girder interior, which is loud and humid.
  — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• Built in 1929, the steel girder bridge is safe for travel but has outlived its useful service life, SHA states.
  — Cameron Goodnight, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• But the creek was flooded, and the bridge was burned out except for four steel girders that were wet from mist and shaking from the thundering water.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• Pieces of the bridge still blocked off the Patapsco River, and partially submerged girders still flanked the huge container ship that smashed into the bridge on Tuesday.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024