Sentence examples for down the bridges from inspiring English sources

By then, the train service was shut down, the bridges were locked down and the ferry was the only way to get across the Hudson.

I focussed on a piece of graffiti scrawled on the opposite wall, "Arrash les ponts" — "Tear down the bridges" — as I answered, "She's been busy with her drawings".

When Mike Petke was a rookie, he would coast down the bridges of New York to save gasoline, filling up in New Jersey because gas was a few pennies cheaper over there.

It will be making its way down the bridges on its way to Calton Hill.

Port Authority planners considered tearing down the bridge and replacing it with a tunnel or a new, higher bridge.

The Uzbek government shut down the bridge in May 1997, when the Taliban first chased the Northern Alliance out of Mazar-i-Sharif.

"The biggest complaint I hear is that we took down the bridge," said Lt. Col. Nick Marano, commander of the Marine battalion here.

"I never even knew we had the thing until this certified letter arrived telling us to tear down the bridge," Ms. Fayad added.

But north of there, water still cut off most roads to Long Beach Island; in Ocean County, wreckage from homes pushed out to sea in the storm had shut down the bridge at Mantoloking.

"I am hoping that all those who watched a middle-aged person jumping down the bridge and coming back up smiling will be encouraged not just to jump but also to come and visit Zambia," Mr Lubinda said.

Labor Day weekend isn't just a celebratory time, it's one of the very best times to shut down the bridge without disrupting the area.