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How to use stanchions in a sentence

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The overhead power lines caused problems because stanchions supporting them were too far apart and cheap materials had been used.
The next day the folks working the tow line lowered all the stanchions on the back of the carts to increase the angle of attack.
They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
Not only are stanchions and pulpits expensive to repair or replace, but they often tear out at the bases, which will cost you even more money.
There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs.
The remains of the suicide vehicle was lying across a ditch near the stanchions of the flyover.
A hollow forged aluminum crown and 30 mm stanchions help keep grams off while still offering maximum rigidity.
The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
When I got to the life-preserver, it was rusted to the stanchions on which it was hung.
Eight of the 10 galvanized pipe stanchions which had been screw-threaded into the base plates had sheared off.
Nobody could object to the way in which the cases were carried from the elevator and set upon stanchions at the repository.
The monorail had been wrenched from its steel stanchions, its tracks twisted like a coat hanger.
Tensioning the cable results in an uplift force at each of the stanchions.
In the latest incident hundreds of pounds' damage had been caused by louts swinging on the railings, pulling the stanchions away and damaging the old stones.
When elevated motorways were being built, their architects promised that people could be housed in flats carved out of the support stanchions.
The debris included steel stanchions from the crane left hanging crumpled above the accident scene.
Carpenters placed stanchions around the site so that the gathering members would not disturb anything.
In the advanced-dementia unit at Beatitudes, the elevator is blocked by a velvet rope attached to silver stanchions.
The after portion of the boat deck consists of a small exterior area surrounded by stanchions and handrails.
The wheel-house top had been fitted with a guard-rail, consisting of pipe stanchions and rails, all of which were missing.
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In the centre was a table that travelled on stanchions from the roof to the deck.
The dredge conduit is carried by timberwork resting on two of the upright box form stanchions.
The moon had risen, flooding the yacht with white light and striping the deck with the clear-cut, black shadows of the stanchions.
By lessening her top-hamper and getting new stanchions for her perilous voyage, she performed it without accident.
The remainder of the crew clung to ring-bolts or stanchions, or whatever they could grasp.
The stanchions stood too close to suffer his shoulders to follow, and I smiled, exulting in my fancied security.
They then undermined it, supporting its foundations by stanchions of wood.
Begin by inserting the stanchions in the sockets in the lower plane.
Over the whole there was a light roof, supported on stanchions.
We clung for our lives to ropes, stanchions, and ring-bolts.
The beam upon which the stanchions of the beak-head bulk-head stand.
Golden stanchions supported a chain of gold encircling it and leading down into the water on either side of marble steps.
The huge folio sign that swung without, exposed to the fury of the tempest, creaked ominously, and gave out a moaning sound from its stanchions of solid oak.
When it reached the craft's side, the jaws closed upon one of the stanchions of the deck rail and tore it from its socket as though it had been a toothpick stuck in putty.
The wind roared like thunder, and blew with such force that it was with difficulty that even strong men kept their feet, or clung with grim clasp to the iron stanchions.
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