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How to use the word i-beam in a Sentence?

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I’m constantly concerned about issues of mental health and keeping myself on the beam and being a good father to my son and things like that. You develop a thick skin when you have been in politics and served time in prison.

Anthony Weiner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The streams percolate out of the Milky Way's dense gas disk, the jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus.

Alex Wagner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And this that we call life, it is no more than the opening and closing of a eye a crevice in the unborn through which there shone a beam of light. Perhaps we are only here to say, live in the mercy of the enkindles immensity.

Alexis karpouzos

added by anonymous
3 years ago

We use a black box, a laser, and a camera, the laser beam is expanded vertically to form a thin sheet of light, which we shine through slits on the left and right of the box.

Martin Fischer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The flare must have been a bit like a lighthouse beam, imagine darkness, and then someone switches on a lighthouse beacon for a brief period of time.

Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm pretty pleased because that's how I train beam and it finally felt good to go out there and hit a beam routine... because I feel like every time... I just bomb it, overall, I still feel like I could do better. My goal going into tonight was to not be great, just to do well. I feel like I accomplished that and made it into finals. Yay!

Simone Biles

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's more like planning with a precise laser beam than a floodlight, where you're making an assumption about an entire community.

Jacki Lenners

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We keep improving technology to do that better and better, so proton beam therapy is the next step.

William Hartsell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech, and, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live.

Andrew Yang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A big beam came flying off of a truck and caught me in the temple area. I woke up in a medical hospital somewhere, a few days later, they sent me back to my unit and then I became really ill with an aneurysm on the verge of bursting in my heart.

Robert Vallieres

Found on CNN
5 years ago

At that time there was a beam that could catapult people to the stars, and that was ‘ The Tonight Show, ’ we all gathered around the heat of that. … If Johnny liked me it meant something to me, that I ’m not only good at what I do but he thinks I ’m intelligent and likes to talk to me.

Jim Carrey

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I lowered my gun to the ground, when I stood up to turn around, I saw a main beam. I said, ‘Oh, my goodness.’.

Josh Clark

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We’re fortunate to have the space station to demonstrate potential habitation capabilities like BEAM.

Jason Crusan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In The Lord of the Rings, the bad guy is represented by a giant eye—The Eye of Sauron—and the eye has a beam that sweeps across the land and the characters have to get down to avoid being seen by it.

Andrew Deutsch

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don't think that there is much doubt that there will eventually be damage to the pier and beam structures. There should be damage to the brick facades should it continue, and, of course, damage to the sheet rock and damage to the house, you are continuously waiting for the other shoe to drop. You're concerned that there is going to be another one.

Susan Hough

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are extremely confident in these security measures, however, we continually review our processes to ensure that we are doing everything possible to protect Jim Beam.

Kevin Smith

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Fiber-optics lasers are revolutionizing direct energy systems, we are investing in every component of the system – from the optics and beam control to the laser itself – to drive size, weight, and power efficiencies.

Keoki Jackson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He was this beam of light.

Elizabeth Vidal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjold

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared; all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

added by anonymous
13 years ago

What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.

Julie Cochrane

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.

Dag Hammarskjld

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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