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How to use beam-ends in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word beam-ends? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
A grid was marked on the beam-web at both the beam-ends to facilitate easy identification and location of the shear cracks.
With the vessel on its port beam-ends, one crew member was unable to enter his starboard-side cabin because the doorway was above his head.
When the vessel was on her beam-ends, the engineer launched the liferaft by kicking it free of the vessel.
Plastic hinges formed at beam-ends and column bases.
Before he could finish cutting the lashings, the knife blade broke, but he eventually managed to launch the liferaft when the vessel was on her beam-ends.
Examples from Classical Literature
Two other vessels had been driven higher on shore, but lay on their beam-ends.
I sprang on deck, and found that a squall had thrown the vessel on her beam-ends.
To turn her side to the wind would have insured her being thrown on her beam-ends.
Jack Lawrence was always ready to show the way when we were on our beam-ends.
Why, sir, just to report one flag struck, and a commander-in-chief on his beam-ends.
But there were no masts now to hold the wind, so she stood up on her beam-ends.
Over went the schooner, till she lay helplessly on her beam-ends.
Hove so completely over the beam-ends that the keel is above the water.
They could see that the wreck was a small vessel on her beam-ends.
Crewe picked him up at Monte Carlo, when he was on his beam-ends.
Leaning out of the window, and seeing one of the faces on the beam-ends looking at me sideways, I fancied it was Uriah Heep got up there somehow, and shut him out in a hurry.
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