How do you use Girder in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like beam, plus the exact meaning.
Girder meaning
- A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
- One who girds; a satirist.
Synonyms of Girder
Using Girder
- The main meaning on this page is: A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure. | One who girds; a satirist.
- Useful related words include: beam.
- In the example corpus, girder often appears in combinations such as: girder bridge, steel girder, the girder.
Context around Girder
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Girder
- In this selection, "girder" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, steel, first, stone, starts, lowers and launch stand out and add context to how "girder" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a launching girder lowers each and a steel girder for the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "girder" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with girder
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Additionally the wreck was surrounded by an iron girder frame. (10 words)
Girder setting brings daytime delays for drivers of SR 107 Chehalis River. (12 words)
Crane being positioned on the Glenn Highway for removal of the damaged bridge girder. (14 words)
Premprakash said he was saved by local villagers who rushed to the spot after the girder and crane— together weighing 2000 metric tonnes—came crashing down from the height 35 metres while they were doing preparatory work on the top of it. (42 words)
Do you remember those cartoons where the baby is walking around the construction site, and is about to fall off the building but lands on a girder that carries him to safety? (32 words)
It used the traditional Hawker construction techniques, with a Warren truss box-girder primary fuselage structure with high-tensile steel longerons and duralumin cross-bracing using mechanically fastened rather than welded joints. (32 words)
Do you remember those cartoons where the baby is walking around the construction site, and is about to fall off the building but lands on a girder that carries him to safety? (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
After the first girder starts catering to traffic, BMC will launch the second girder in a similar manner.
Little over 30 years after the state-of-the-art Art Deco masterpiece was built, it was pulled down stone by stone, girder by girder in 1967.
After hitting the piece of girder, the loco pilot slowed down the speed of the train and informed the station superintendent who reached the spot along with GRP and RPF officials.
A launching girder lowers each segment into place as it moves south across the valley, forming 56 piers which will stretch across land and water.
During the girder launch on Saturday night, civic officials, including deputy municipal commissioner (infrastructure) Ulhas Mahale, was present at the spot along with Andheri legislator, Ameet Satam.
Premprakash said he was saved by local villagers who rushed to the spot after the girder and crane— together weighing 2000 metric tonnes—came crashing down from the height 35 metres while they were doing preparatory work on the top of it.
Since the engineers cannot erect an additional pillar, the civic body had resorted to the design of a ‘Bow-String’ girder bridge.
The height of the Bow String Arch Steel Girder is 16.754meters and weight is 514 MT.
The right-hand side of the bar will have high leather and machinist style stools with a boat mural on the roof girder by local artist Toni Knight.
A part of the Jiribam-Imphal railway line, bridge number 164 of the project will be the tallest girder railway bridge of the Indian Railways network.
Do you remember those cartoons where the baby is walking around the construction site, and is about to fall off the building but lands on a girder that carries him to safety?
Girder setting brings daytime delays for drivers of SR 107 Chehalis River.
She does this at the order of her corporate worker superior Girder (Cronenberg pere alumna Jennifer Jason Leigh).
He was helped on board by fellow passengers after carrying the girder through an emergency exit.
Identified by the group as Ben Atkinson, a tree surgeon, he was arrested after evading police by unclipping his harness and sitting on a girder.
A crane places a steel girder for the Hamilton Avenue bridge over Interstate 84 in Waterbury.
Crane being positioned on the Glenn Highway for removal of the damaged bridge girder.
Additionally the wreck was surrounded by an iron girder frame.
It used the traditional Hawker construction techniques, with a Warren truss box-girder primary fuselage structure with high-tensile steel longerons and duralumin cross-bracing using mechanically fastened rather than welded joints.
Light cable suspension may prove less expensive and seem more elegant for a cycle or footbridge than strong girder supports.
Common combinations with girder
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- girder bridge 4×
- steel girder 4×
- the girder 3×
- girder in 2×
- girder by 2×
- launching girder 2×
- on girder 2×