How to Use footbridge in a Sentence

footbridge

noun
  • We built a wooden footbridge over the creek.
  • The water in the creek a block away skimmed the bottom of the footbridge.
    Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Park east of the highway and walk across the footbridge.
    Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2018
  • Pushing the man from the footbridge seems to cross one of those lines.
    Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2011
  • Just above the fall a plank footbridge crossed the river.
    Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • The footbridge, built in 1905, closed two years after the road.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Peer down To enter the home through the front door, there’s a short footbridge to cross.
    David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • But the spindly, fragile footbridge was too weak to bear the weight of all this love.
    Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
  • This isn't a bunch of Boy Scouts building a footbridge across the creek.
    Bob Ford, Philly.com, 24 May 2017
  • Cross a footbridge and take the left fork alongside the creek, and stay left again at the junction with the Cliff Loop.
    Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • Red howler monkeys swung from the cables of a footbridge and screeched in the jungle.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • The swamp covers most of the first floor, with footbridges spanning the gaps between dry land.
    Cort Gatliff, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • The swamp covers most of the first floor, with footbridges spanning the gaps between dry land.
    Cort Gatliff, Southern Living, 23 June 2015
  • On an overhead footbridge stands a man large enough to stop the trolley.
    Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2011
  • The footbridge built in 1905 and the road beneath have been blocked in recent years out of concern about the safety of the bridge.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
  • Any footbridge violence has been done to the spans, not by them.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
  • This footbridge was rebuilt by a Boy Scouts troop about 15 years ago.
    Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2020
  • But a street and a footbridge have already been named for Ortiz.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The city is criss-crossed with canals, footbridges, and historic stone buildings.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2018
  • Stone steps lead down to a footbridge over a beautiful stretch of the river.
    oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The metal footbridges will open this July, at $150 a guest.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In the meantime, the two footbridges still need to be fully installed on the Eagle Creek Trail.
    Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Head west from the lot until the trail turns north and proceed about 0.2 of a mile, watching for a footbridge on your left.
    John Meyer, The Denver Post, 13 May 2024
  • Two narrow concrete footbridges spanned the lanes of I-44, leading to Dan Kiley’s two paths to bring you to the bases of the Arch’s legs.
    Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 28 June 2018
  • Cross a footbridge over the creek and continue west on a narrow, rocky trail.
    Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • Parents kept their children away from the footbridge that day.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Continue on the trail to Ypsilon Lake, cross a footbridge, and view the flowing tiers of Ypsilon Falls, to the left.
    Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • The first footbridge was built in 1880 by the owners of the nearby C&O Canal as a moneymaking scheme.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The plan is to not allow visitors north of the Big Sable River and close the dam, footbridge and highway bridge.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
  • Surveillance video shows the couple running toward a small white footbridge near an open field, where the baby had been left.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024

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