Sentence examples for the flanges from inspiring English sources
noun
An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
Bend the bead around the arch and staple the flanges to the drywall.
The flanges at the heel and toe of the head keep the putter moving straight and on line.
If you have to use metal corner bead instead, to bend it, you will have to cut the flanges at one-inch intervals with tin snips.
Huge needlelike spicules, projecting beyond the soft tissue of sea pens (pennatulids), for example, both support the flanges that bear feeding polyps and hinder browsing by predators.
White plastic shrink wrap covered most of the suspended steel, but the flanges at the column's base were exposed — and among the spray-painted graffiti, the words "God Bless" were legible.
The steel body stampings are spot-welded and bolted together as they have been for ages, it seems, with large gaps at the flanges and exposed sharp edges that will eat up a mechanic's hands.
It did the same with the one-and-a-half-inch rolled steel, hitting it with such force that it blew the flanges of the hole back toward us, rather than out the other side.
Failure occurred by slippage of the flanges.
All specimens experienced yielding in the flanges of the track.
We reduced the excessive material in the flanges.
Most of the flanges were found to be incompletely deployed.
