Sentence examples for a drawbridge over from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a drawbridge over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a drawbridge that spans or crosses over a body of water, road, or other obstacles.
Example: "The city plans to construct a drawbridge over the river to improve traffic flow."
Alternatives: "a bridge spanning" or "a bridge across".

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One of them, on a drawbridge over the mill basin in Brooklyn, afforded anyone who drove near it an unsettling view of water.

That 60,000-square-foot club put in a $3 million sound system and added a D.J. booth that becomes a "drawbridge" over the crowd, said Jason Strauss, a partner in the TAO Group, which manages the club.

The work has been repeatedly delayed, most recently because workers had trouble taking apart a rusty steel-and-concrete counterweight, weighing four million pounds, that allowed the 188-foot movable span to swing up like a drawbridge over a moat.

The eponymous elephant lives in a house called Homeward, "which is hard to describe, but try to think of about a hundred skyscrapers all joined together and surrounded by a moat with a drawbridge over it, and you'll get some idea of it".

There was originally a drawbridge over the moat in the north east.

The highway follows Cypress Street to a drawbridge over the Manistee River and then Cleveland Street on the northern side.

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By the early 1980s, the southern approach to the Key Bridge was dualized, with a second roadway constructed along with a second drawbridge over Curtis Creek.

The US 50 divided highway started construction in 1950 and was completed between the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Queenstown in 1952, including a new drawbridge over Kent Narrows.

For example: How do you pretend to be a police robot to get over a drawbridge into the next scene?

The original entrance was over a drawbridge, but today you climb an external staircase into the Great Hall with its wall hangings, heavy oak furniture and roaring fire.

You can climb up wide, winding steps and over a drawbridge to the Haute Ville, the fortified old town built mainly in the 16th century and with endless views over the sea.

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