sagging moment

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noun

a bending moment that produces concave bending at the middle of a simple supported beamAlso called: positive bending moment

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How to use sagging moment in a sentence

In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.
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But Krauss said that from the moment he and the other scientists arrived on the island, they never saw anything untoward.
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The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment.
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At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.
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He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
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The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
At this moment an extraordinary commotion began among the watches.
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