Sample Sentences for
cantilevered
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    Her left hand twitched slightly as it hung in the air, cantilevered by foothills of rolled fat.†  (source)
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    Attaching it as close as he could to the wall of the billboard platform, about twenty feet in front of us, minimized the cantilever force that would try and rip the billboard from the wall of the building.†  (source)
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    In Europe the nuns wear bonnets like cantilevered beach houses.†  (source)
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    A massive cantilevered glass ceiling opened onto a view of the night sky.†  (source)
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    You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.†  (source)
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    Gravity reached its tentacles out and grabbed the silver cylinder with its cantilevered wings.†  (source)
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    That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one splinter of a second in one vast flash of fire.†  (source)
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    I richly enjoyed the men's john at the Maple Court, where, cantilevered slightly forward over the urinal, I could brood over the plashing clear stream while Guy Lombardo or Sammy Kaye or Shep Fields or some other glutinously innocuous band rumbled faintly from the jukebox beyond the walls.†  (source)
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    He had the knack of making the kindliness of his smile add to, not detract from his solemn appearance of dignity; his long, thin, hooked nose did detract from the kindliness, but it added to the dignity; his stomach, cantilevered over his legs, did detract from the dignity, but it added to the kindliness.†  (source)
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    He was familiar with the tectonics of cantilevered mammary-gland support devices by now, and anyway he found Ramona's new matronly air repellent.†  (source)
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    The bars of the E were cantilevered on stilts out over a steep canyon, so if I looked out a window, I felt like I was floating.†  (source)
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    Living-quarters often were cantilevered out from precipices, or hung on heavy chains that had been carried up by teams of mountaineers.†  (source)
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    That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one splinter of a second in one vast flash of fire.†  (source)
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