Sentence examples for bridge stands from inspiring English sources

The Akashi Strait Bridge stands in a seismically unstable region that also experiences some of the Earth's most severe storms.

Twenty years after the war began, and 17 years after the Dayton accords brought the fighting to an end, the bridge stands again, and a shallow peace prevails.

Pooh is now a billion-dollar brand and the fictional Hundred Acre Wood where he and his friends once romped, a wholly cheesy tourist attraction in East Sussex where (of course) the "original" Poohsticks Bridge stands triumphant.

The bridge stands 76 metres above the river Avon and, in spite of having been designed for horse and carts, easily withstands the 12,000 cars that use it each day.

Of all the places fighting has raged since the American invasion nearly six years ago, Falluja — the site of two major battles and the town where American security contractors were killed and their bodies hung from a local bridge — stands out as one of the bloodiest and most intractable.

Yet on his return to the Premier League frontline Benítez has demonstrated admirable restraint in the face of hostility from the Stamford Bridge stands and, as well as all but securing Champions League football for Chelsea, has delivered the club the fifth European title in its history.

And then the new bridge stood there, no longer obscured, silhouetted in the morning sun.

Along the Thames by Blackfriars bridge stood Audit House, home of his Exchequer and Audit Department.

Farther east, near the base of the Chubi Bridge, stood a small teahouse.

It does not explain, however, why the bridge stood for 40 years before collapsing.

Three goals later the whole of Stamford Bridge stood up "for the Special One".