How to Use drawbridge in a Sentence

drawbridge

noun

• Robin Hood is 200 feet away from the edge of the drawbridge.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2022
• The drawbridge will be in the open position much of the day.
  — oregonlive, 20 Aug. 2021
• By the time the three of them were outside the drawbridge, the sun was badgered by clouds.
  — Kate Osana Simonian, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Your first should be that a drawbridge at rest lies flat against the ground.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2022
• The drawbridge needs to be in the up (open) position during the work.
  — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Think of it like putting a drawbridge over a moat instead of a two-lane road.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 27 Oct. 2021
• Marc let the drawbridge down and let these young princes of New York enter.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Orange leads you across the drawbridge, and then the span starts going up.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 4 June 2018
• To get to the the 4-inch thick, oak front door that weighs 762 pounds, visitors must cross a drawbridge..
  — Brendel Hightower, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• The first was a drawbridge built by the Santa Fe railroad in 1906 and presented to the city.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2018
• That kind of steel could withstand the weight of a Ferris wheel or the openings and closings of a drawbridge.
  — Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• In the months that River Neva is not frozen, the drawbridges open to let naval traffic through.
  — Aanchal Anand, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• The work requires outside lanes on the drawbridge to be closed 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. some weekdays.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
• The planned five-lane, dual-leaf drawbridge will be three times as wide as the current bridge, which was built in 1934.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
• The load shoes can only be replaced while the drawbridge is in the up position.
  — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• But the opening of the drawbridge over Chelsea Creek for tankers and barges can tack on an extra 20 minutes or more.
  — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• The damming of the river and building an actual drawbridge that worked.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 14 July 2017
• One of the most challenging holes was approached by hitting the ball over a drawbridge.
  — Donna Reiner, azcentral, 11 July 2019
• The work requires frequent and prolonged openings of the drawbridge.
  — oregonlive, 16 Oct. 2020
• The moats are metaphorical, the drawbridge always down.
  — Christian Wiman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The castle had neither a moat nor a drawbridge, so few believe it was ever used as a fortress.
  — Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
• The state had successfully dug a moat around the utility, and hadn’t built a drawbridge.
  — Russell Gold, WSJ, 22 June 2019
• France confronted the drawbridge-raisers head on and beat them.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• When it was built, the center arch was a metal drawbridge, allowing large boats to pass through.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• Onward again, past the baseball park, over the drawbridge, into Mission Bay, the heart of the new San Francisco.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• Scattered throughout the house are bookshelves, including ones that float on walls in the guest room and one that’s a drawbridge in the living room.
  — Madeleine Winer, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2017
• Which reminds me of something else I was told about Tel Aviv: that here is where Israel pulled up the drawbridge, to keep out the troubles and the worries.
  — Michael Shapiro, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2019
• The people who used the castle would have needed a way to cross the moat, and now the base for a drawbridge has been discovered, according to the release.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
• She was allowed to walk across the drawbridge as far as society and class and boundaries around acceptance versus non-acceptance.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024