Bridges is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bridges meaning
plural of bridge
Synonyms of Bridges
Using Bridges
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bridge
- Useful related words include: harry bridges, labor leader.
- In the example corpus, bridges often appears in combinations such as: bridges and, the bridges, and bridges.
Context around Bridges
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bridges
- In this selection, "bridges" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jeff, ruby, building, contains, moving and meaning stand out and add context to how "bridges" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 12 other bridges were damaged, 34 both bridges were destroyed and jeff bridges. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bridges" sits close to words such as projected, pupils and colleges, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bridges
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mildred was born on June 29, 1937, the daughter of Leroy Bridges and Elodie Davis Bridges. (16 words)
While Bridges and his union took transparently pro-Communist stances, Bridges denied that he was a Communist. (17 words)
All five road bridges, including the two highway bridges, are open to cyclists and pedestrians as well. (17 words)
Fixed or movable bridges Moving a Bloomingdale Trail bridge from Ashland to Western in Chicago Most bridges are fixed bridges, meaning they have no moving parts and stay in one place until they fail or are demolished. (37 words)
The bridges in the gardens of Japanese temples are also painted red (and usually only temple bridges are red, not bridges in ordinary gardens), since they are also passages to sacred places. (32 words)
The Bridges siblings – Avery, 6, Payton, 5, and Caleb, 4 – were surprised when their dad, U.S. Army Sgt. Justin Bridges, arrived at lunch after returning from a 11-month assignment overseas. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was the role that reminded us all that Jeff Bridges contains multitudes, and it is maybe the role that is the most Jeff Bridges that Jeff Bridges has ever been.
Fixed or movable bridges Moving a Bloomingdale Trail bridge from Ashland to Western in Chicago Most bridges are fixed bridges, meaning they have no moving parts and stay in one place until they fail or are demolished.
The bridges in the gardens of Japanese temples are also painted red (and usually only temple bridges are red, not bridges in ordinary gardens), since they are also passages to sacred places.
Giwa explained that vehicles are causing serious obstructions around these bridges with great negative impacts on the integrity of the bridges and traffic.
MoDOT says the tri-level bridges were built in 1964 and that the “flyover” bridges were built in 1991.
While a majority of the railroad bridges located in Binghamton are owned by Norfolk Southern, three bridges are owned by New York Susquehanna & Western.
For some bridges, that could mean retrofitted additions; for others, it could mean precautions, like using tugboats to keep vessels on course as they clear bridges, to mitigate risk.
I think of Ruby Bridges, Ruby Bridges is the little girl we always see in the Norman Rockwell painting and she was being taken to school by four officers.
The overpowering force of nature swept away sixteen bridges (including six essential bridges in Lachen Valley) and approx.
While Bridges and his union took transparently pro-Communist stances, Bridges denied that he was a Communist.
It’s not that these internships aren’t important — people building bridges should definitely have experience building bridges.
Ross was Bridges' chief backer when he contested the leadership, acting as his 'numbers man' and was rewarded with a front bench placing becoming a critical member of Bridges team.
The Bridges siblings – Avery, 6, Payton, 5, and Caleb, 4 – were surprised when their dad, U.S. Army Sgt. Justin Bridges, arrived at lunch after returning from a 11-month assignment overseas.
Watch out for the bridges: As the play area shrinks, you might find you need to cross one of the bridges.
Like many other roads and bridges, the two bridges in Tengbeh Town connecting parts of Brookfield’s to Wilberforce and the western part of Freetown are in dire need of urgent rehabilitation.
Mildred was born on June 29, 1937, the daughter of Leroy Bridges and Elodie Davis Bridges.
Other downtown bridges will remain open, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, Walnut Street, Locust Street and Grand Avenue bridges.
According to Herodotus (vv.34), both bridges were destroyed by a storm and Xerxes had those responsible for building the bridges beheaded and the strait itself whipped.
All five road bridges, including the two highway bridges, are open to cyclists and pedestrians as well.
Along with the three major bridges over the Lempa River, 12 other bridges were damaged or destroyed by the Mitch flooding.
Phrases with bridges
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with bridges
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bridges and 27×
- the bridges 16×
- and bridges 16×
- bridges in 13×
- building bridges 10×
- bridges to 10×
- bridges are 9×
- bridges the 9×
- bridges with 8×
- bridges were 8×