How to Use footbridge in a Sentence
footbridge
noun- We built a wooden footbridge over the creek.
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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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