Example Sentences
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In addition to the giant tsunami wall, the facility is now equipped with new backup power systems, reinforced walls, pipes and trusses to boost resilience in an earthquake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Gehry introduced clerestory windows, skylights, large exposed trusses, raw concrete floors and metal cladding, elevating the utilitarian spaces without erasing their industrial character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
It took six semi-trucks to delivery all the required material, including 40,000 pounds of gear, scenery and structural trusses.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
According to a report from NPR, engineers will use “surgical precision” to cut the steel trusses trapping the container, which will then be “thrust away from the Dali” when explosives are detonated.
From Salon ● May 12, 2024
The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
