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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"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
Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Much I dislike the beamless mind, Whose earthly vision, unrefined, Nature has never formed to see The beauties of simplicity!
From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Francis Child
The giant warned him of the dangers which he would encounter, saying that the mountain passage was twelve miles long and beamless and black.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
