How to Use truss bridge in a Sentence

truss bridge

noun
Definition of truss bridgenext
  • The trail approached a truss bridge that crossed the Rezan River.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The Brent Spence Bridge, built in 1963, is considered a cantilevered truss bridge.
    — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Officials plan to build a roughly 475-foot steel truss bridge to span the landslide.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
  • Work to replace the rusty truss bridge will begin this fall and stretch until August 2023.
    — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • This bridge's structural system is defined as an arched truss bridge with a deck suspended from the truss.
    — Adel Abdelnaby, CNN, 17 May 2021
  • Only the fourth one, a spindly little wisp of a truss bridge, held its own for the full ten minutes without so much as an angel hair out of place.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The project, which replaced a 1959 truss bridge, was the biggest bridge replacement job in the state’s history and came at a cost of more than half a billion dollars.
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2019
  • There had been some discussion putting the trail over the old railroad truss bridge, built in 1893, offering bikers and joggers a historic pass.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2022
  • By the 1980s, that cantilever-truss bridge was posing problems for large new container ships headed for the Port of Savannah.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Both bridges were built as a wrought iron truss bridge with a timber deck, according to Harford County’s government website.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Engineer Deneatra Henderson says good uses for the 60-foot long steel Pratt pony truss bridge include adding it to a hiking and biking trail or as part of a golf course cart path.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Gainesville’s iconic big green truss bridge on State Route 369 was recently awarded to a contractor for replacement.
    — Karen Huppertz, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
  • It was raised over the Spokane River when the city was hurriedly replacing its wooden and steel truss bridges, giving the town a modern appearance and the unofficial moniker City of Bridges.
    — Nicholas Deshais, The Seattle Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Today, the mill’s adventurous customers can ride a zip line over the treetops and above the historic Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge, an all-metal suspension truss bridge that’s beloved of railroad buffs.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • His dad, Irving (Strong), is a tightly wound plumber who tends to prattle on whether or not anyone’s listening, about subjects as random as the perfect load-bearing qualities of a truss bridge.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
  • The work includes replacing the metal decking and repainting the distinctive green truss bridge, which spans the American River just west of Interstate 5.
    — sacbee, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Also in the small downtown are several friendly pubs and restaurants, a cluster of relocated truss bridges in Historic Bridge Park and access to a linear park that makes a walkable and bikeable loop of more than 20 miles.
    — Richard Selden, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • Southgate Bridge is considered a continuous truss bridge.
    — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022

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