GIRDER in a Sentence

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For GIRDER, below is one of 4 sentences:
Discovery astronauts spent six and a half hours today unhooking a huge girder from the backbone of the International Space Station.

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 Meanings and Examples of GIRDER
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girder
 n.  beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as main horizontal support in building
Classic Sentence:
1  Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Discovery astronauts spent six and a half hours today unhooking a huge girder from the backbone of the International Space Station.
2  The girders supporting the bridge will corrode so gradually that no one suspects any danger in future 10 years.
3  The bridge is reinforced with huge steel girders.