How to Use girder in a Sentence

girder

noun
  • Galarza said the new structure will be a single-span steel plate girder bridge.
    — Tommy Wright, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
  • The tower's steel girders shivered and, with a mighty screech, bent in two.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The iron girders of a water tower were reeds bending in the wind.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Those concrete ramps, red girders and twirling towers.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The lobby is eight stories of open air topped by steel girders and a glass ceiling.
    — Keith Sharon, Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2017
  • The bridge’s other girder would be a wall between the station and a trail.
    — Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Then, crews can install the girders and begin work on a new concrete deck.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
  • Sling your body to a girder or other hanging point above to escape and get a breather.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2018
  • More than a decade later, a freighter struck a steel girder on the bridge, damaging three of the ship’s four masts.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • In the spring of 2019, crews will start topping the supports with steel girders.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Since the wood is pretty unreliable the safest way across is via the metal girders.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 July 2018
  • There turned out to be a difference in the construction sequence of the girders.
    — John Brant, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The covid-19 virus has dropped from the sky, much like the girder that narrowly missed Flitcraft.
    — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • 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 three machines crowd the brick-and-girder interior, which is loud and humid.
    — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The steel girder that holds up the living-room ceiling is also a climbing pole, with a harness so guests can rappel down.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • During the closure, crews will repair a steel girder on the bridge, according to the release.
    — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The weekend closures will allow crews to install 16 girders for the first of the two new flyover ramps.
    — Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Work on the bridges includes pavement patching, bridge joint replacement and repairs to the bridge deck, beams, piers and girders.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 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
  • 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
  • At times, the young singers use the building itself as a kind of instrument, beating on its girders, walls, and floors with hammers and iron rods.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 2 May 2025

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