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
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.
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 Mudge, James
For as surely as we see the sun vanish in the west this evening, feeble and beamless, so surely shall we behold him to-morrow morning rise again in the east, glorious, vigorous and young.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
