abutment

How To Use abutment In A Sentence

• Various foundation types have been adopted to support the bridge piers and abutments.
• The road passed beneath a highway bridge over one of the mountain's many small rivers, and up beneath the ferroconcrete and I-beam abutments were dozens of new clay nests that had been built upon the old ones.
• Hummelstown brownstone traversed the gamut of the masonry trades from foundation to lintel, mansion to privy, bridge abutment to gravestone, skyscraper to curbstone, and so on for seemingly endless uses.
• On the trip south, past Philadelphia, you see the physical deterioration that echoes what you saw on the TV—broken neighborhoods, abandoned factories with shattered windows, graffiti-covered abutments. What the World Sees in America
• Bemoaning his mangled truck, which was upside down in a ditch when officers arrived, Surachai told police that he had been returning home from Sattahip when he collided with a bridge abutment and lost control.
• We were able to see the concrete abutments where there were once catenary towers.
• For example, in an arched bridge, the force of compression is pushed along the curve of the arch toward the abutments.
• Diameter of an abutment foundation - 2 meters.
• Although the waters of the Baker River were well up on the Smith Bridge, the bridge stayed on its abutments.
• He hit that abutment and it just disintegrated," the witness told Newsday. Ted Hesson: A Hate Crimes Commander Laid To Rest in Suffolk, But Questions Remain