Sentence examples for largest bridge from inspiring English sources

The largest bridge and viaduct in Finland formerly stood just north of Kemi, but both were destroyed by the Germans in World War II.

The Eads, or St . Louis Bridge, the largest bridge of any type built up to that time, was recognized throughout the world as a landmark engineering achievement, with its pioneering use of structural steel, its foundations planted at record depths, and its cantilevering technique used for raising the arches.

In 2009, a 9-year-old Georgia boy, Richard Jeng, became the youngest player to earn the rank of life master from the American Contract Bridge League, the nation's largest bridge organization; the average age of its 165,000 members is 67.

In the 1890s, the Illinois Central drawbridge opened as the largest bridge of its type in the world.

The state paid a total of $1.3 million for what was called "the largest bridge ever built under the auspices of the State Highway Department".

The Bonsall Bridge over the San Luis Rey River was completed in 1925, and opened in 1926 as the county's largest bridge at the time, and served as part of the road from San Diego to Elsinore.

In the past decade, there have been many structural changes implemented to Vancouver's largest bridges as a means of deterring criminogenic and suicidal behaviors.

You have a venue with different protection environments: one of the largest bridges in the world, legacy bridges, New York City neighborhoods, commercial sections, hundreds of acres of parks and trees surrounded by high buildings.

The A8 expansion was commenced by the operator, BINA Istra, immediately following a similar expansion of the A9; on the latter, the entire route was widened except for the two largest bridges, for which the expansion was postponed.

Residents in the area have for years proposed turning the three-mile-long bridge over to cyclists and pedestrians once a larger bridge is completed nearby.

A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.