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How to use caisson in a sentence

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The caisson is made of wood, but looks so shinny and smooth to the untrained eye it looks like metal.
The caisson ceiling was elaborately decorated with exquisitely enchased mosaic frescos.
The design load capacity of each caisson at the anchor piers is 1,640 tons.
One afternoon in the summer of 1872, a man had to be carried out of the caisson with caisson disease.
The buttresses rise from caisson caps, each covering six concrete caissons.
He sailed to the raid in HMS Campbeltown and landed by jumping over the ship's bow onto the caisson to conduct demolition work ashore.
We saw the bronze of a Civil War general on horseback, soldiers hanging onto an artillery caisson clattering to his side.
Nick Ryan endured chest pains, broken limbs, bleeding sinuses, and caisson disease — the bends.
Even the most modern methods of bringing men from high pressures to those of the atmosphere slowly do not entirely obviate the danger of caisson disease.
Many workers contracted what became known as caisson disease, which was caused by the changes in air pressure one endures when working in a caisson.
In 1880, the French physicist determines the cause of caisson disease.
The burial ground was empty except for the occasional horse-drawn caisson being pulled through its quiet lanes.
As each caisson was an expensive endeavour, fewer but larger caissons were used.
The caparison horse is led behind the caisson tacked with an empty saddle with rider's boots reversed in the stirrups, a symbol of a warrior who will never ride again.
The caisson was refloated on 19 October 1885, and then moved into position and sunk with suitable modifications.
To accomplish this, each caisson was shipped aslant into the other and consequently turned into the correct position at the turning point of the tide.
Here at Men of Steel Rebar Fabricators, LLC, we pride ourselves on being the east coast's premier rebar and caisson fabricator.
Around each site where a pier was to stand, a coffer dam, a sort of watertight caisson, was built. The dam was sealed with clay and the water pumped out.
Raised with horses, the staff sergeant worked with the horses of the Army's honor guard near Washington, the Caisson Unit of the 3rd Infantry Division.
Examples from Classical Literature
The men were down in the road, lifting the horses, dragging with them at gun and caisson.
You cannot go into the caisson unless you are sound of heart and stout of body.
The guns stopped, the men got down from limber and caisson, the horses were unhitched.
Mr. Howe could have said without being dogmatic that a man thus transported would die of what is known as caisson disease.
Here a caisson blew up, tearing the horses to pieces, and whirling a cannoneer among the clouds.
It consisted of a timber caisson, weighing 64 tons when full of water, counterpoised by heavy weights carried on timber platforms.
The caisson was then filled with concrete through the tremie which was handled by a traveling crane.
In another chapter we shall see how the caisson is operated.
A caisson was struck, exploded with frightful glare and sound.
As the batteries come up from the river see that every caisson is filled.
It has two wheels, and carries ammunition the same as the caisson.
The fore carriage of the gun and that of the caisson are identical.
A battery of artillery followed, the cannoneers riding with folded arms on limber and caisson.
It would be dangerous to come out from the caisson pressure quickly.
When the wheel completes its 180 degree turn, gates are lowered, allowing the boat to sail out of the caisson into the canal, on the same water level.
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