What is "cantilevered"

Usage examples of "cantilevered".

There is also a variety of silly concrete festoonery spaced along the flat cornice, including masks of Justice and other Greek figures, and a cantilevered portico, supported by greened chains.

He lifted his head, fixing his gaze upon the cantilevered bridgeway that stuck out into the Well like a tongue, a tongue from a mouth that belched smoke and scarlet flame and the amethyst lightning of a lightsaber biting flesh.

The Well shook, and he could feel sudden terror from the World Brain as the cantilevered bridgeway and platform collapsed, plunging a hundred meters to crash into the slime pool, and the world seemed to rock and tremble, and a blast of smoke and dust burst from the tunnel.

That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one splinter of a second in one vast flash of fire.

The sliding glass doors were open, and I slid open the screen door and stepped out onto wide gray boards that cantilevered out across the front of the house.

This floor was set back from the cantilevered deck below, and I could look across to where Mrs.

When she found me there on the cantilevered deck, she raised a hand in greeting.

A sleeveless white knit top emphasized her big boobs, cantilevered over a thick waist and slightly rounded tummy.

The cantilevered gun, massive against any other backdrop, stuck out of the turret like a giant telescope and was so small in comparison it looked like an accidental add-on.

The dress circle and balcony were supported by graceful cantilevered arcs with no pillars to obscure the view from the lower floor.

The innards of his desk were precariously cantilevered out over his seat.

For the first few blocks, the widely spaced houses were large, sprawling affairs, split-level ranches with cantilevered sun decks over the carports.

The house that came in sight as they followed the drive around the curve of a tall concealing hedge was in the tropical-modern style, with wide cantilevered overhangs to shade its expanses of glass and screened breezeways that sometimes made it hard to see exactly where the outside ended and the interior began.

She was standing at the edge of the Pifers' elegant redwood deck cantilevered over a sparkling-waterfall ravine in the portaled, privately policed Village of Amherst Dells, due west of the Village of Willowsville, gazing at us, her old classmates, with a look of defiance, and deference.

The new rubber heels I had put on my old broken shoes were cantilevered in air past the lip of the top step, so reluctant was I to come any farther into this dumbfoundingly complex and mirrored environment.