Sentence examples for bridge failed from inspiring English sources

They simply do not know what happened in the weeks and days before a given bridge failed.

Steel bands in the concrete-and-steel bridge failed, said Don Idol, an assistant engineer with the state Department of Transportation.

The model bridge failed under the probable blast loads applied over and underneath the bridge.

The bone bridge failed in 88.88 % of the constructs with LGA and 94.44 % in those with CGA (p = 0.5).

The Utatsu highway bridge failed due to trapping of air between the bridge's girders, superelevation of the bridge deck toward the ocean, and the presence of a seawall under the bridge.

His inexperienced third mate, whom he'd left in charge on the bridge, failed to execute a crucial turn in time, ramming the tanker onto the submerged rocks of the reef.

Far downstream two sides of a half-built bridge fail to meet.

If the bridge fails to rise on time, an air horn blasts from a ship operating on a different schedule than the bridge tender's sleep cycle.

However, the capitalist said that society should determine how many people are on the bridge — if the bridge fails, then individuals would determine how many people should be on the bridge at the same time.

Rutnam, the DfT's accounting officer, reveals that cancellation costs to the public sector of up to £15m combined with "sunk costs of around £13.5m committed by DfT and £22m by Tfl" mean that more than £50m will be lost if the contentious bridge fails to go ahead.

"No one should be surprised when the bridge fails," she said.