beam
noun
any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
beamless
-
a word derived from
beam.
Example Sentences
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Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He walked around the corner and saw the Embassy, every light on, the only building on the street with a bulb burning, a beamless lighthouse with all its light shining in on itself."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah! yesternight I saw the sun Sink beamless down the vaulted gray— The ghastly ghost of yesterday.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
Dim sadness hung upon his brow; Fix'd was his beamless eye: His face was like the moon-light bow Upon a win'try sky.
The sun Would rise as beamless on my darkened days, Night proffer the same torments.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
