How to Use superstructure in a Sentence

superstructure

noun

• The ships feature a long flat deck for most of the length of the ship and a tall superstructure to the rear.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• The work includes fixes to the bridge deck as well as the superstructure, which supports the deck.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
• The Coast Guard said the vessel has a bluish-purple hull, a white superstructure and white sails.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022
• Outside, meanwhile, two wide side decks run from the bow to the stern to create a sense of flow around to the superstructure.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2022
• Crews needed to run 1,000 feet of firehose across the dock, up the gangplank and then up the superstructure steps.
  — oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
• From the 3-D superstructures to the nonstop music and the over-the-top fashion, there's no shortage of things to do, see, and hear.
  — Jenna Blaha, Marie Claire, 22 June 2017
• The superstructure sat at one place in the yard, the hull and deck that would carry it at another.
  — al, 21 Nov. 2022
• The year of its collapse, the bridge’s superstructure rating was a 4.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• 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
• The project will replace the deck and strengthen the steel superstructure to improve freight travel across the Thames.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2024
• If nobody were to show up to vote on Election Day, the superstructure of the country would fall apart.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2020
• The living area, located at the rear of the superstructure, consists of six suites, with room for up to 12 guests.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
• It's got a smooth outside that goes up to a superstructure, and its sides are curving.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2024
• The entire superstructure that made up the wheelhouse and middle deck had been destroyed in the blaze.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• So using the platform to build the superstructure and then return it to the neighborhood on my own terms is a huge step for me.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• Dark shadows lurk nearby in a hatch in the tanker’s superstructure.
  — Helen Scales, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• The most outlandish of these was that Tabby's Star was, or at least was involved in, the creation of an alien superstructure.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2017
• The radar is installed in a number of bulges on the ship's superstructure, again, like American ships.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2017
• It was built to last: A concrete superstructure supports the 5,000-odd reclaimed bricks that form the facade.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Christened Ono, the yacht has a wedge-like silhouette with a sharp reverse bow and a sleek superstructure that tapers to the stern.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2022
• The third phase, to occur in 2025, calls for more steel repairs and painting to the bridge's entire superstructure, Shepherd said.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
• The firm balanced the strength of the steel hull with aluminum for the yacht’s superstructure to reduce weight and lower its center of gravity.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2022
• That won’t be easy with a concrete superstructure that towers so high.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• What if this 20-percent area of the sky is one superstructure that takes up the entire shadow region, like the villain in a cartoon?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2022
• It’s got the characters of a noir film, Jackie Chan action sequences, music out of a New York jazz club, and the superstructure of a space opera.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• The world was watching, and the bodies of four more construction workers were encased in the bridge’s superstructure.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• The team says the design of the superstructure undersides, which are beveled and streamlined, allow more light in and give them a lighter appearance.
  — Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 25 May 2017
• The superstructure will be made out of either lightweight aluminum or even FRP.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 July 2023
• The metal superstructure of the plant is about ten stories tall, and there are dozens of men hanging off of every level, welding.
  — Michael J. Mooney, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2015
• The six-foot-by-10-foot glass panels are fastened to the superstructure using a special glue and sealant, a novel process that needed to be approved by Lloyd’s.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024