How to Use gantry in a Sentence

gantry

noun
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  • And then there are the gantry cranes, which at present are 67 and 75 tall.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • You will be asked to hold your breath as your body is passed through the gantry.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The glazing gantry does the windshields and rear glass.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • A great steel hook hangs from a gantry as if waiting to pluck up the lazy.
    — Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • The gantries in the middle are part of the McDuffie Coal Terminal.
    — AL.com, 24 June 2017
  • On the day of the launch, the gantry would slide away on rails, leaving the upright rocket on its launch pad.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
  • Munoz said his team remains on track to complete the gantry and close out the massive flame trench by the end of the year.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 July 2018
  • In fact, pieces of the ship are built off-site and and then hoisted in Tetris-style by a giant gantry crane.
    — Ayesha Khan, CNT, 21 July 2017
  • At 7:43, Blue Origin technicians closed the hatch and climbed down from the gantry.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 20 July 2021
  • Before the launch, workers tow the gantry away to expose the rocket.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • The gantry helps aim the proton beam at specific targets on the body.
    — Keith Epstein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
  • The great port cities of the world have been replaced by automated docks full of gantries and cranes.
    — David Abulafia, Time, 14 Oct. 2019
  • From seats at the top, supporters of Glentoran FC get a view of the gantry cranes of Belfast’s shipyard.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The beams passed through her and struck a crystal detector housed in the gantry below her head.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • But the key features, just across the border, are the giant gantry cranes more usually seen in the world’s ports.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The gantry lift goes haywire – rapidly moving up and down.
    — Joseph Pimentel, The Mercury News, 25 May 2017
  • The disasters that struck late Friday left the city’s port in ruins, its lone gantry crane atilt in the water.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Next year, 15 more gantry cranes will arrive at Seagirt.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The system would use a network of about 50 gantries placed at six-mile intervals.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 23 June 2019
  • The resulting fireball consumed the gantry and set fire to the jungle surrounding the pad.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
  • One camera, mounted on an overhead gantry, gives a bird’s eye view.
    — Jeremy Hart, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2009
  • In recent months, crews installed nine toll gantries and dozens of signs along the nine-mile stretch between Route 29 in Rosslyn and the Beltway.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 17 July 2017
  • Next to it, the blue scaffolds of an indoor crane resemble a launchpad gantry.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
  • Once you are laid on the flatbed, it is passed through the gantry as the CT scanner rotates around the body to take continuous X-ray images.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The 315-foot Kommuna in essence is a floating gantry—a bunch of tall steel arches stretching from one of the twin hulls to the other over the open water.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Toll gantries would be placed near highway bridges most in need of repairs, and toll rates would vary based upon the cost of upgrades each bridge would need.
    — Keith M. Phanuef, courant.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The gantry basically forms its own trailer, staying rigid in transit and with a set of back axles strapped on.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2020
  • When drivers pass under overhead gantries, their E-ZPass account will be debited the amount of the trip.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The first Ariane 6 rocket is pictured inside the mobile gantry on its launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
  • Additional photos showed Cassidy being dismembered while her body was bound to a gantry crane that is typically used for wild game.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 15 June 2024

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