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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cantilever .
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Examples
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Published and architecturally significant, the residence is made up of two unique glass and steel boxes perched in and cantilevered from a series of exposed poured concrete walls.
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Balance breaks the mold of most prefabs, offering highly functional floor plans and architectural features such as cantilevered roofs.
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Built in 2000, the Slauerhoffbrug is a kind of cantilevered drawbridge, but skewed to one side.
Google Sightseeing 2009
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On a seatpost clamp stand, their cantilevered nature is less stable.
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I must be near the top of this damned skyscraper, I thought, remembering those cantilevered shelves that stretched over the ocean.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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This part of the building, the place where it relaxes and puts its feet up, is housed in a cantilevered steel and glass tower that seems to be breaking away from the main structure.
James Murdoch's Sky scraper Jonathan Glancey 2010
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He followed her to a peculiar object cantilevered off the side of the deck.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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But heh -- it's a helluva lot cheaper to slap sharerows on pavement than it is to hang cantilevered bike lanes on a bridge, build a bike path under a bridge, or complete the BGT missing link.
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He tore down blocks of old Baghdadi houses, with their graceful cantilevered balconies, and replaced them with a row of identical brown brick townhouses.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The lower floors of the building were cantilevered out—surely there was a way to climb down if I was careful.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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