How to Use gantry in a Sentence

gantry

noun
  • You will be asked to hold your breath as your body is passed through the gantry.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The display on the gantry would tell when that lane is open or closed.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
  • And then there are the gantry cranes, which at present are 67 and 75 tall.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • One camera, mounted on an overhead gantry, gives a bird’s eye view.
    — Jeremy Hart, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2009
  • The bill does not include gantry cranes like RMGs.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The gantry helps aim the proton beam at specific targets on the body.
    — Keith Epstein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
  • Before the launch, workers tow the gantry away to expose the rocket.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • On the day of the launch, the gantry would slide away on rails, leaving the upright rocket on its launch pad.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
  • The beams passed through her and struck a crystal detector housed in the gantry below her head.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Large extrusion heads place heavy demands on gantries and robotic arms.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Munoz said his team remains on track to complete the gantry and close out the massive flame trench by the end of the year.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 July 2018
  • In fact, pieces of the ship are built off-site and and then hoisted in Tetris-style by a giant gantry crane.
    — Ayesha Khan, CNT, 21 July 2017
  • Next to it, the blue scaffolds of an indoor crane resemble a launchpad gantry.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
  • The site features a massive gantry key used to drop aircraft from as high as 200 feet.
    — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The gantry will wheel away from the rocket during the countdown Tuesday.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
  • The system would use a network of about 50 gantries placed at six-mile intervals.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 23 June 2019
  • But the key features, just across the border, are the giant gantry cranes more usually seen in the world’s ports.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The gantry basically forms its own trailer, staying rigid in transit and with a set of back axles strapped on.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2020
  • His printer consisted of a nozzle attached to a movable gantry crane.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Toll gantries would be placed near highway bridges most in need of repairs, and toll rates would vary based upon the cost of upgrades each bridge would need.
    — Keith M. Phanuef, courant.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The disasters that struck late Friday left the city’s port in ruins, its lone gantry crane atilt in the water.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The gantry is a device that rotates around the patient delivering a beam of protons.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2017
  • The resulting fireball consumed the gantry and set fire to the jungle surrounding the pad.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
  • Next to the gantry, a long, rectangular object could be seen with two other objects nearby.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 May 2023
  • Drivers will notice signs announcing the upcoming change and flashing from the toll gantries.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • As soon the gantry quay cranes were removed from the tariff list, another equally important group was left to wallow in the mud.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The whole apparatus—the arm was mounted on a gantry—moved like a printer head, loudly, and faster than seemed plausible.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The gantries in the middle are part of the McDuffie Coal Terminal.
    — AL.com, 24 June 2017
  • From seats at the top, supporters of Glentoran FC get a view of the gantry cranes of Belfast’s shipyard.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • When drivers pass under overhead gantries, their E-ZPass account will be debited the amount of the trip.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2019

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