How to Use build a bridge in a Sentence

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  • The total time to build a bridge is often more than five years.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The original plan was to build a bridge over the busy highway.
    Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
  • In fact, the Russians had to build a bridge to Crimea just to resupply it.
    ABC News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • If one side wants to build a bridge over a canyon and the other side doesn’t, the smartest course isn’t to build half a bridge that stops in thin air.
    Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • My job is to build a bridge between my work and someone who may not be trained in the sciences.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • Kiger-Stoffel said her group is working to build a bridge between small towns and cities to end the drug war.
    Jack Shuler, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
  • And Poles was asked to explain why, in his view, the sides couldn’t build a bridge toward a compromise.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Players must build a bridge using 16 planks, cross it to the the other side, and hit the lever to burn their opponents' bridge.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Still, Venita wanted to try to build a bridge with Kathryn and asked Leva for advice.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2022
  • My objective is to build a bridge to this entire world that lives in Spanish and that seems to not exist for the rest of society.
    Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • My objective is to build a bridge to this entire world that lives in Spanish and that seems to not exist for the rest of society.
    Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In teams, players then had to build a bridge and carry heavy bags of sand over it, eventually even having to move a 2-ton ship.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Consider talking things out with them and attempting to build a bridge.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Leaders need to step up and build a bridge with empathy to work toward solutions, Gray said.
    Nathaniel Cary, USA TODAY, 31 May 2020
  • Carmel also will build a bridge at Conner Prairie connecting Carmel and Fishers.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2021
  • In the final scenes of the play, Tony and Aoife have passed away and Rosemary struggles to build a bridge between herself and the flighty, noncommittal Anthony.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Dilfer was smart from the beginning to build a bridge between UAB football and Alabama.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For example, mergers and acquisitions can drive a wedge or build a bridge.
    Lauren Pasquale Bartlett, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In certain species, if the foraging group needs to cross a gap to another tree branch, the ants will build a bridge out of their own bodies to allow their coworkers to step across.
    Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • To deal with their grief the LeNail family has spearheaded an initiative to build a bridge over the rocky spot where their son died in hopes of preventing other deaths.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • The Warriors are genuine about trying to build a bridge between eras and contend for the long haul, following the San Antonio Spurs blueprint.
    Patrick Murray, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The tug of war between Fort Lauderdale and Broward County over whether to build a bridge or tunnel for commuter rail might kill plans for a joint government center with a $600 million price tag.
    Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • To say that bike lanes should wait until there are sufficient numbers of riders asking for it is akin to waiting to build a bridge until a number of folks drive into the river.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Consider a hybrid model that can build a bridge from being fully remote to being in person.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • However, an unexpected revelation leads her to use her cookies to build a bridge to the outside world.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • However, an unexpected revelation leads her to use her cookies to build a bridge to the outside world.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • Singer-songwriter Nick Cave discovered that, sometimes, one person has to build a bridge by extending a helping hand.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Traffic has only built since then, and now town officials are trying to secure financial aid to build a bridge over the Farmington River near town hall.
    Don Stacom, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The team will now attempt to modify Stern and Gerlach’s century-old setup to probe the nature of gravity — and perhaps build a bridge between the two pillars of modern physics.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Meghan might have been the very addition to the family who could have helped build a bridge to the next generation of Britons – and to the overwhelmingly Black and brown inhabitants of Britain’s Commonwealth nations.
    Sophia A. Nelson, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022

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