Sentence examples for could not bridge from inspiring English sources

Albrecht would get within 20sec of the leading trio but could not bridge the gap.

Vonn was third after the first run but overcame several errors to have the fastest time in the second and create a margin that Maze could not bridge.

Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, could not bridge differences between a group of newly confident developing nations and established Western economic powers.

For many reporters who covered him, though, his personal affability could not bridge the gap between the brutal disintegration of civil life in Iraq and the daily briefings Mr. Senor gave.

Several years ago, Mr. Sladkus recounted, he put in a bid on a renovated apartment on the Upper East Side, but after some back and forth, he and the owner could not bridge a $25,000 gap.

"We could not bridge the gap between two dramatically competing visions of the role [of] government," said Jeb Hensarling, a Republican congressman and the committee's co-chairman, in a newspaper article.What now?

But Martin Allen's ragbag couldn't bridge the gap of 35 places separating these teams.

Some singers couldn't bridge the distance between themselves and the audience.

That I couldn't bridge the gap with my parents before they died.

But it didn't last — after the initial rush, these groups couldn't bridge the vast gulf that separated them.

"We couldn't bridge the gap," Francis J. Duggan, the mediation board's chairman, said in an interview yesterday.