How to Use footbridge in a Sentence

footbridge

noun
  • We built a wooden footbridge over the creek.
  • The water in the creek a block away skimmed the bottom of the footbridge.
    Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Park east of the highway and walk across the footbridge.
    Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2018
  • The footbridge, built in 1905, closed two years after the road.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But the spindly, fragile footbridge was too weak to bear the weight of all this love.
    Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Cross a footbridge and take the left fork alongside the creek, and stay left again at the junction with the Cliff Loop.
    Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • The footbridge built in 1905 and the road beneath have been blocked in recent years out of concern about the safety of the bridge.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
  • This footbridge was rebuilt by a Boy Scouts troop about 15 years ago.
    Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Stone steps lead down to a footbridge over a beautiful stretch of the river.
    oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The metal footbridges will open this July, at $150 a guest.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In the meantime, the two footbridges still need to be fully installed on the Eagle Creek Trail.
    Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Two narrow concrete footbridges spanned the lanes of I-44, leading to Dan Kiley’s two paths to bring you to the bases of the Arch’s legs.
    Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 28 June 2018
  • Cross a footbridge over the creek and continue west on a narrow, rocky trail.
    Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • Continue on the trail to Ypsilon Lake, cross a footbridge, and view the flowing tiers of Ypsilon Falls, to the left.
    Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • Park near the base and enjoy the view from below (there’s a pretty footbridge at the falls’ midpoint), or hike to the top of the falls via a 2.6-mile out-and-back trail.
    Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
  • An island splits the falls, with a big sign directing visitors to a takeout point and footbridge to the left and the raftable falls to the right.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2018
  • The park includes a footbridge to Salesforce Tower, which opened last year as the city’s tallest building.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 July 2019
  • Or the snaking footbridge that allows someone in a wheelchair to ascend a 35-foot slope.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2022
  • The long-closed Lake Park footbridge is expected to reopen this fall.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Trail 3, a rugged 2-mile hike, with rock cliff and forest views begins with a very steep road that leads to a footbridge to Rose Island.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2019
  • Print out a map from the website to lead you to the waterfall, a frog pond, the footbridge, a forest trail and a native grass meadow.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2020
  • In March, the Crane Trust leads similar bird blind tours for the same price as well as outings on a private footbridge for $15.
    Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
  • To get to school, Huang had to cross a rickety pedestrian footbridge over a river.
    Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Work is set to begin next month with the trail extension, new footbridge and trail repaving taking place in 2022.
    John Benson, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The main entrance of the school is over a footbridge and is bordered on both sides by a moat-like garden that turns into a creek in rainy weather.
    Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Haytulova and her neighbors who live closest to the footbridge were hit the hardest.
    Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The trail runs along the lakeshore and soon crosses over the beginnings of the McKenzie River on a handsome wooden footbridge.
    oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2021
  • On top of the building there’s a slanting green pathway that serves as a footbridge connecting one side of the river to the other.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 6 Aug. 2018
  • After a winter storm destroyed a footbridge in 2015, the trail was partially closed for a year.
    oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Small crowds of onlookers group on a nearby footbridge -- phones poised -- to greet it, like some minor celeb.
    CNN, 13 Aug. 2021

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