cantilevered

in a sentence

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) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

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) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

A massive cantilevered glass ceiling opened onto a view of the night sky.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels, 2011

In Europe the nuns wear bonnets like cantilevered beach houses.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.†  (source) Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982

Gravity reached its tentacles out and grabbed the silver cylinder with its cantilevered wings.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

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) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Her left hand twitched slightly as it hung in the air, cantilevered by foothills of rolled fat.†  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

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) James Patterson, The Angel Experiment, 2005

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) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

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) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

My mother grew up at the ocean's edge, in sight of the ancient Chinese fishing nets cantilevered from long bamboo poles and dangling over the water like giant cobwebs.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

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) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961