How To Use Beam In A Sentence

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
I awoke to the bright rays of sunlight beaming on me.
But amongst this chaos, Stewart has beamed down to promote Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th instalment of the feature film series.
Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'

By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
The unit installs at the transom and emits sonar beams that ‘look’ out to 240 feet on either side of the boat.
By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
Let's remember, for example, how much talk there was during the early 1970s when Olga Korbut performed the backward somersault in tuck position on the beam.
It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and ‘beaming,’ and is configurable to an unlimited number of options.
When a target is locked there is a radar beam position indication on the HUD.
To further clarify the benefit of the combination of topical techniques for tumour destruction and external beam radiotherapy randomised studies are required.
There are two large rooms that can be used for social gatherings equipped with a TV and a beamer and screen, plus a dining room and a well-furnished kitchen next to the swimming pool. Weekly
She was a pretty vessel: schooner-rigged, very low in the water, and -- as we found out when we took her -- of very deep draught; broad in the beam, and ` flush-decked 'fore and aft, with no raised fore or after castles. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
Most of the patients who are treated with radiation therapy are treated with external beam irradiation.
Here is a road seen between sunset and moonrise: "... all that remained of day was a beamless amber light along the west: but I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by the light of that splendid moon". The Three Brontës
By the use of the eigenfunctions, the formulas of the propagation of the transient wave along rod, beam and beam-rod structures are derived in the present paper.
It seemed to be locked on to some invisible beam that was projecting from out of June's vagina.
A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
Rooms feature beamed ceilings, exposed stone walls and sunken baths. Times, Sunday Times
Rushwind activates his wrist-comm and tells them to prepare to beam them up.
For it is through believing that the sun rises and sets, the moon passes and wanes, the rain falls and sunbeams pour down that allows the order and sequence of events to happen.
And she didn't think she would lose, not with the sunbeam falling on her face like the God's golden promise.
An example is the stress on a material, such as a construction beam in a bridge.
Many of the houses are burnt, the tin roofs caved in over charred beams. Times, Sunday Times
Photograph by Alexandre Bailhache Pleached hornbeam arches and chestnut pergolas create verdant alleys connecting one garden room to the next and provide shaded, secluded walks. Paradise Regained
Using laser cooling, scientists trap the atoms, holding them within carefully tuned beams of laser light.
(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness. THE SPIKE
The beam carried on in a straight line, and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been.
Rather than open beams, the room has a plaster ceiling formed into rectangular panels but leaving the central wood beam uncovered. Times, Sunday Times
The laser beam for Raman excitation was focused to a static diffraction limited spot in the center of the focal plane.
In this work, the dose distribution produced by a single, rectangular ( "planar") x-ray microbeam was simulated inside the head phantoms which had a cylindrical shape. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
A beamy old former fishing boat carried us across to Caldey's landing point on a beach that mirrored Tenby's, and was sprinkled with sunbathers.
A blue tractor beam en-gulfed the runabout and thrust it away from the debris. Demons Of Air And Darkness
A triple-beam balance gets its name because it has three beams that allow you to move known masses along the beam.
When the ship fired its polaron beam at one mine, others within that defensive sphere reacted to the threat, homing in on the source of the beam and attacking it en masse. Creative Couplings
The main roof beams are given extra support by the smaller transverse beams.
Images of their son's rugged ancestral homeland were beamed into millions of American homes before the election. Times, Sunday Times
The tiny beam of light flickered over the telephone - and back.
This proved to be true; she negotiated sideways through the door, beaming, a loaded tray in one hand, the other wrapped round Henri-Christian, who clung to her, monkeylike. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
When you disturbed them the seeds of rose-bay willow-herbs lifted like air bubbles into the beam of light.
There was no one at the beamdown point, which was close to where the undetectable barrier kept the swamp from encroaching on the habitat, but there was a road nearby that took them to the village in less than half an hour's walk. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
They beamed the signal to the satellite.
En route to the recital she was cranky, giving me the cold slitty eye-beam treatment in the rear view mirror.
In the third chapter, using the second-order momentum of beam radius, the Rayleigh range and beam propagation factor of three different polarized beam arrays are derived.
The thickness of the liquid crystal and the arrangement of liquid crystal molecule are flexible, there are no deviation in the outgoing beams.
Be a love beam that shines on the darkness of unlit souls. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Where I see Hawfinches they become more visible from early afternoon in the tops of trees - often Beech or Hornbeam. Listen out for the loud ticking call.
The depth of the tie beam was minimized to avoid transverse bending from the tower legs.
Prediction problem of trim - beam number in colored - textile manufacturing process scheduling is discussed.
The great breakthrough in microscopy came when it was found possible to produce an image of an object using an electron beam. Press Release: The 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
As the batteries run low, patients simply strap on a power pack that recharges the batteries via radio waves beamed through their skin.
The paper shows that positrons can see defects better than either optical or electron beam microscopes.
Harry Boden There are invisible infrared security beams around the perimeter and throughout the garden. High-Security Homes
A laser beam that has a very shallow penetration depth and will perforate calcified plaque is the excimer laser.
But what is interesting for visitors is that the garden is still evolving: a gravel garden with silver plants is surrounded by a cloister of youthful hornbeams.
Like an old stone barn with hand-hewn beams, they were built to last, enduring monuments to craftsmanship and common sense.
In the main bedroom imposing beams support a domed roof space above the double bed. Times, Sunday Times
Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy, he said.
Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.
The aiming and treatment beams may not coincide in space and this problem may be accentuated after the beams pass through a lens.
Worse, the beam shut off while I was still four-metres from the ground.
We suppose they are radio antennas beaming away their signal into the low grey sky.
For instance, in the case of strengthening masonry infill with FRP bars, they may be easily anchored to columns and beams.
The beams of wit, the lively sallies of humour, and the interchange of good fellowship, eradiated the glass in its circulation, and doubly enhanced its contents; and in amusements so truly congenial with the disposition of the Hon. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
He gives four options for the future of the hornbeams: remove the trees and replace them with a more suitable species; phase out the trees by removing two now and the remaining two five years later; thin the trees out or do nothing.
It is a fact of physics that all light beams suffer from diffraction; it was not thought that much could be done about it.
The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside, accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.
This shaped beam profile is imaged through the telescope system onto the back focal plane of the microscope objective.
These beams have different energies and properties which determine the depth that the beam penetrates into the body.
The shape of the emittance contour of a charged particle beam can be described by the contour function.
The light that passes through this mirror is the laser beam. The laser at 50
A corbel is a stone bracket that projects from a wall or corner, either to support a beam or for decoration. Medieval corbel found in York
A general equation for determining the neutral axis in partially prestressed concrete T or I Section beams with tension and compression reinforcement is presented in this paper.
A beaming Sam was caught on camera in the photograph published in last Saturday's Observer.
It is also produced by the projector beam in a smoky cinema.
Zack, all beaming blondness and supersocial to the core, charmed all the guests, crawling on the lawn and the deck, raising his arms to ask people to pick him up. Falling Apart in One Piece
he beamed his approval
Enter through the glazed double doors into a lofty beamed sitting room. Times, Sunday Times
More false beams ascended the walls of the A-frame, reaching an apex perhaps thirty feet from the floor. DOUBTING THOMAS
The antennas combine high gain with a directional beam and virtually no backscatter, the company said.
But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.
From Thursday on, the television cameras will beam sumptuous shots of loblolly pines and blushing azaleas around the world.
More generally, it’s the expression to be defined, as opposed to the definiens, which is the phrase doing the defining.beamishQuote The Volokh Conspiracy » Definiendum
On top of the 500 reporters traveling with the military and the three cable-TV news channels beaming 24-hour coverage there's a new element in this war: unfiltered eyewitness accounts online.
David grabbed the otoscope off the floor, raised Bronner's eyelids, and shone the beam of light into his pupils. DO NO HARM
Laser power beaming and propulsion, on the other hand, would require sustained average power output from lasers of megawatts to gigawatts .
Insertinch carriage bolts about 7 inches long to accommodate a washer and a nut on the inside of the beam.
Already, too, from the piers, it would be able to be seen that the two slaves hung (pg. 426) from the outjutting display beams on either side of the concave bow of the Tais. Renegades Of Gor
But there are far too many sassy waitresses, far too much Jim Beam in clinking glasses, far too many people reckoning instead of thinking – far too much caricature instead of character, in other words. The OLM Blog
And the rising sun met the falling star and flashed into coruscant life, a roaring tide of fiery might that batted away cold beams and sent an incandescent lance of godly light in retaliation.
Hemmed in by its straightedge boundaries, shining moons and planets of dust would swirl and turn, or glide in, through, and out of the beam's dimensions like miniature ships. I didn't know Nostradamus played in McNamara's band (Novel - excerpt)
Too bad the place was almost completely transparent, a giant U of plateglass walls supported by slender steel beams. THE MOONLIT EARTH
After collimation, the central part of the measurement beam travels to the target retroreflector through an annular mirror that returns the outer annulus of the beam, which acts as the reference.
Dr. Ross says his findings move "human ocular extramission," which he also refers to as an "eyebeam," from the realm of superstition to science. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
For narrow spectral bandwidth gratings, dimensional variations must be minimized or compensated, and the grating is apodized by both a.c. and d.c. variations in writing beams at a net constant power.
Looking at one of the awning's outer support beams, he laughingly recalls a time when some of his friends kicked him out of his bedding for snoring too loudly.
Not far off, say the technology's developers, are photonic microcircuits that process light beams the way today's microelectronics chips process electric currents.
It beams a radio signal that bounces back off a metallic object. Times, Sunday Times
Her mother was fairly broad in the beam.
Her mother was fairly broad in the beam.
The group's design manipulates the laser beam instead of using a translation stage to shift the sample, which allows the user to scan the sample layer by layer while still correlating the information spatially.
At least it stayed low enough to avoid a repeat of the high beamers he hurled at Brendon McCullum earlier this year and at Marcus Trescothick in the one-day series against England three weeks ago.
An 1840 Cornish beam engine remains at the Levant mine, and is preserved by the National Trust.
Lucy walked up the fight of steps; the plate glass doors slid open electronically as she crossed the beam.
Georgia, which placed third last year, had a few wobbles on balance beam in the final rotation but held on to second place.
Beam robotics is about taking the bottom-up approach, to start from mastering the simple bug and moving up from there.
Choosing the correct digitization for a beam profiler depends on the application.
Finally, nostalgic for his happy Chicago childhood, he turned his drama department into a surrogate family with himself as benevolently beaming paterfamilias.
All of a sudden the great sheltering limbs of the trees over Jasperwood look like ceiling beams in a quake-shaken house, ready to crash down.
2 A joist is a support beam used in both floor and roof systems to support the decking material usually plywood over which the finished floor or roof is laid. Managing New Product and Process Development
And the beam can't be spotted by drivers who use radar trap detectors.
The room also features a brick fireplace with raised hearth and thick wood beamed mantelpiece, and is overlooked by a balcony which is accessible from the first floor.
They mug for cameras, hug their parents, and beam with pride.
During each revolution the top beam of the connecting rod goes from horizontal to an angle as the piston rods are in a fixed plane some means of extending the beam is required.
The sensor uses an infrared beam to "read" a vehicle's exhaust emissions as it drives past.
To clearly define the beam position, contrast agent may help identify the endocardium by attenuating the x-ray beam in the cavity.
He spent as much time dabbling with artistic and literary pursuits as he did with frequency counters and laser beams. Times, Sunday Times
His final result of 39.025 could have been higher if it were not for an error in coming off the beam.
The cancer cells are burnt out using a laser beam.
Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
Sally Beamish was born in London and could read and write music by the age of four.
The pin-point brilliance of the targeting beam danced across her forehead.
I sat up and leaned against the armrest, my face glowing as I beamed from ear to ear.
As this issue of TIME closed, our editorial staff discovered it had some lovely reasons for an impromptu party: three orchid-decked researchers ablush and abeam with plans for marriage.
He struck his head on/against the beam.
Here's a romantic view of a grouse shoot on Beamsley Beacon by Turner.
The girth is wide, but so is that beaming smile. Times, Sunday Times
Got any exposed beams in your house? Times, Sunday Times
You can go to your local theater on Christmas Day and watch "" Stepmom, '' in which Susan Sarandon, instead of shuffling off her mortal coil, smiles beamingly at the camera in a happy family portrait in the last frame. Death Takes A Hike
Aidan woke, blinking up into the gray of predawn, confusion at his whereabouts making him question the heavy oaken beams above his head, the draft from a rattling set of windows, and the dampness in the smelly blankets covering him. Earl of Durkness
Here, the Orgone Beam converts pure levorotation into dextrorotation, or vice versa, until bipolarity is achieved.
Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that whiteness she beamed forth. Les Miserables
Apart from a bit of woodworm, the beam seemed solid enough, but the panel rang hollow.
The fire beamed on their faces
Places (we often called them that instead of farms) that I knew about all had either stairs or backstairs to the servants quarters, so I was quite surprised to see that at Beamish ladders had been the order of the day.
The bulk of the money will be spent on radio broadcasts to be beamed into the country. Times, Sunday Times
The here intended stocks extend only along a quarter of the fluke beam, thus not across the full beam of the anchor.
It has come from experiments with high-energy muon neutrino beams at particle accelerators, and from lower-energy neutrinos at two nuclear reactors.
The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams. Local Color
All he could do was beam a ray of pure hatred at Sherman.
The photons intersected at a prism called a beamsplitter, where they entangled, and then zipped onwards on separate paths to detectors. Zee News : India National
The energy of the scattered light is abstracted from the original beam.
The same smirking, self-delighted narcissist will remain beamingly oblivious to how much we, Democrats everywhere, and informed men and women of good will around the globe loathe him and the ground he walks on. Election Central Morning Roundup
Beyond it great beams of light lit up the depths of Glen Loyne and somewhere down below, red deer stags roared defiance at each other across the glen.
Farkas beamed pleasantly, leaned forward, let his whole sensorium drink her in.
The gymnast performed on the balance beam with an easy grace.
The designator directs a laser beam at the target, the laser seeker picks up the reflected light, and the bomb or missile homes in on the illuminated target.
The dining room has a beamed ceiling and a wood-burning stove within a stone fireplace.
Mama herself is the perfect hostess, her beaming smile, sparkling eyes and brightly printed dress catching the kids' attention from the start.
The microbeam from the laser encourages oestrogen production and mimics natural growth," says Dr Daniel Sister, who offers the treatment at his London salon (£1,500 for six sessions, 020 7221 2248). The beauty bible
The rack - and - pinion steering is sharp, and the torsion beam rear axle gives car a grown - up feel.
The system propagates an acoustic energy beam, which the antenna array directs against one of the buildings.
The programmes are beamed from Anik C, a telecommunications satellite that went into orbit at the end of last year.
He stooped under the low beam.
Down below, he could see the single torch beam which illuminated Devlin, the girl and Gilbert.
She had committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam.
Zap-o-Matic, disintegrator ray, abducto beam, quantum deconstructor and anal probe. Softpedia News - Global
Vertical polarization in one component of a beam of light is cancelled if another component is polarized at right angles to it.
On the other side, the statue of the late Al Waxman, King of Kensington, beams down on us with its ever-present smile.
This new gun shoots a laser beam at the target.
The tolerance of the BOE to the phase distortion with Gauss distribution of the input laser beam and the manufacturing error are analyzed.
His broad face beamed a hearty welcome.
The interior is a delight, a beamed, strawed, trestle-tabled, dimly lit farmhouse attended to by waiters in sashed smocks.
Then, angling her flashlight to direct the beam ahead of her, she carefully inspected the wall to her right until she found a hole the size of a nickel disguised in the carvings.
An onionskin -like structure of concentric dust shells surround a central, aging star. Twin beams of light radiate from the star and illuminate the usually invisible dust.
Images of their son's rugged ancestral homeland were beamed into millions of American homes before the election. Times, Sunday Times
The photorefractive creates an index grating that couples light from one beam to another effectively compensating for any less than stellar phase-front negating any need for complicated optical alignment, spatial filtering, and columniation.
And almost immediately she'd felt the forceful beam of Ross's hard grey eyes sweeping over her slender figure.
Even more amazing was his ability to beam Gedanken up into this thought world.
Laser beams can currently be weakened or blocked by clouds but experts say the more powerful lasers of the future may be less affected by weather. Times, Sunday Times
The public areas have immense character, with heavily beamed ceilings and cosy open fireplaces, including an old cast iron range in the lounge.
Bounce a graviton particle beam, off the main deflector dish, Snow, and other things.
He stopped pacing when a beam of dusty sunlight struck his face.
Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind. Healing the Highlander
Gas Aga which serves central heating and domestic hot water and set in most attractive brick recess with exposed beam over.
The beacon sends out a beam of light every thirty seconds.
Fire a high energy electron beam at a metal target and bremsstrahlung effect produces intense X-rays.
The lower stringer end should rest on a concrete beam foundation or on footings below each stringer.
The dynamic equation and the dynamic trait of high-current ion beams, the main mechanism of halo-chaos formation and several main nonlinear controlling methods are summarized in the paper.
I nearly brained myself on that low beam.
Next ball, Lee produces a full toss that's virtually a beamer.
The beam lifetime is an important parameter and it can affect the operation of the storage ring.
The pair's faces were beamed on to a giant heart-shaped screen by a roving camera which flashes up live pictures of spectators. The Sun
‘Morning ladies’ she greeted, still smiling with that I-can-do-no-wrong beam.
Upstairs in the big bedchamber is a ceiling of beams worked in bold roll mouldings; and there is an exquisite little parlour, lined with linen fold panels, with a breastsummer carved with strange animals. Medieval People
With her three pearl white parallel hulls she had a 25-foot beam.
Natural light seeps through to every sump, and it is magical to drift through the maze of stalactites studded with reflective crystals, the light dancing in the beams of our torches.
External X-ray megavoltage beam irradiation is quite often indicated in view of the closeness of the surgical margin of resection. Things Don't Break
Shatner beamed with joy when told he had been selected to be on the face of the coin.
Daring beauty, wild, lovely bacchante, with black, beaming eyes, tempt us not with that bright flame to destruction! The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
There are exposed wood beams throughout and simple decorations. Times, Sunday Times
The interior has heaps of rustic charm, with beamed ceilings, stone fireplaces and wood floors. Times, Sunday Times
Beautiful materials are used: in the podium the concrete beams are clad in mullions of black Argentine granite enclosing fillets of white Sicilian marble.
Sonia, all floating swan's-down and stephanotis, beamed at everyone. TICKLED PINK
It'll beam wireless Internet signals over a 5-mile square mile area of Seattle.
We'd better pretend to get prepared by pretending we have a super-duper laser beam bomb annihilator thingy. Hullabaloo
Along the entire length of the shed, and on the opposite side of the track, a timber trestle is erected, strong timber beams are laid from the top of the cribwork to the top of the trestle, 4 feet apart and at an angle representing the slope of the mountain, as nearly as possible. Canada and the States
The boy beamed as if he had just won a stuffed toy in one of those side shows at the county fair.

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