Explore Joists through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Joists meaning
plural of joist
Using Joists
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of joist
- In the example corpus, joists often appears in combinations such as: the joists, floor joists, joists and.
Context around Joists
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Joists
- In this selection, "joists" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, floor, steel, bar, aluminum, meaning and rsj stand out and add context to how "joists" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and floor joists were being and and steel joists. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "joists" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with joists
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Small offcuts are used as shims to level floor joists. (10 words)
Crawling under a house to spray the joists, I bumped up against a collie skull. (15 words)
The joists were rotted at both ends to the point where you could push your finger through. (17 words)
Downes said that volunteers were directed to construct the ramp using salt-treated lumber for the posts, joists and decking boards to make sure the it was up to code at the property on Basket Switch Road in Newark. (39 words)
However you can also insulate ‘room-in-roof’ conversions by laying the thermal material between the joists of both the floor and the ceiling to create a barrier between the inside of your home and the outside climate. (38 words)
Steer, a former civil servant, said: ‘I was replacing the joists in the floor when I noticed a slight depression – it appeared to be filled in with the foundations of the house. (32 words)
Example sentences (14)
The company offers floor joists and floor panels; and design, engineering, permitting, project management, and site assembly services.
However you can also insulate ‘room-in-roof’ conversions by laying the thermal material between the joists of both the floor and the ceiling to create a barrier between the inside of your home and the outside climate.
The building will feature multiple crane rails, bar joists, aluminum canopies, CMU walls with brick veneer, and a combination of modified bitumen and standing seam roofs.
The joists were rotted at both ends to the point where you could push your finger through.
Last year royal sources ceiling beams and floor joists were being replaced and there was electrical rewiring needed, as well new gas and water mains in the grounds.
This vehicle can power through rough, uneven terrain and carry large, weighty building materials like bricks, concrete blocks, metal beams, and steel joists.
But after a fraught couple of hours, Detective Sergeant Norman Griffiths discovered him naked in the loft, hiding under a section of fibreglass insulation blanket between the joists.
Crawling under a house to spray the joists, I bumped up against a collie skull.
Downes said that volunteers were directed to construct the ramp using salt-treated lumber for the posts, joists and decking boards to make sure the it was up to code at the property on Basket Switch Road in Newark.
The planks didn’t cover the width of the gaps between the floor joists, meaning there were openings.
Steer, a former civil servant, said: ‘I was replacing the joists in the floor when I noticed a slight depression – it appeared to be filled in with the foundations of the house.
LSCs are commonly used in the cutting of rolled steel joists (RSJ) and other structural targets, such as in the controlled demolition of buildings.
Small offcuts are used as shims to level floor joists.
Up to the 1970s, the majority of houses were of "double brick" construction on concrete footings, with timber floors laid on joists supported by "dwarf walls".
Common combinations with joists
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: