Sentence examples for bridge rise from inspiring English sources

But the businesses along the river enlisted the War Department to demand that the bridge rise to 135 feet to accommodate vessels of any size.

Stretching from East New York through Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick, and ending where the steel girders of the Williamsburg Bridge rise over the East River, this Broadway is more grit than glitter.

As Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer of the Golden Gate, watched his beloved suspension bridge rise over San Francisco Bay in the nineteen-thirties, he could not imagine that anyone would use it without due care for its designated purpose.

The Bayonne Bridge rises in the distance.

The toll on that bridge rose steeply and quickly.

The Goethals Bridge rises overhead, disappearing into an industrial park of wires, smokestacks and derricks.

To the north, the illuminated Ravenel Bridge rises above the U.S.S.

Today the Lincoln Highway Bridge rises between 20 and 30 times a month, said Erin Phalon, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

In this case, the path became the bridge, rising three steps to an old yellow wicker stool, which offered the world-weary a place to contemplate beauty.

A bridge rises out of it, a silver ramp, and you can see ocean beneath it, darkness running all the way to Portugal, and from there down the Mediterranean to the Middle East.

There was reason enough to pause and admire the great parabolic gateway of the Bayonne Bridge rising to the west and that new exclamation point, 1 World Trade Center, piercing the eastern horizon.