How to Use suspension bridge in a Sentence

suspension bridge

noun
  • The bridge is the fifth-longest suspension bridge in the world.
    Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The gorge, part of a theme park, is spanned by a light suspension bridge that dates back to 1929.
    Gregory J. Holman, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
  • At the time it was built, the 3,460-foot Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
    Rose Marie Walano, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Italy might build the longest suspension bridge in the world.
    Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 26 July 2023
  • More: How the suspension bridge became our icon More: Take the news with you.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The group was just south of Bridge of the Gods, a scenic suspension bridge above the Columbia River.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2022
  • There are two exit routes on the tour, with the first about a quarter of the way in, and the second just before the suspension bridge.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • In 1988 an enormous suspension bridge across the Bosporus was opened, bearing the name of Mehmet the Conqueror.
    Christopher De Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The Brooklyn Bridge was the world's first-ever steel-wire suspension bridge.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The park also has a large playground, suspension bridge and food court/food truck area.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2022
  • Pining piccolos, flutes and strings were strung through the third with the tension of the suspension bridge.
    Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • In 2010, a visitor center was added just a short walk from the house, over a suspension bridge.
    Rebecca Treon, Chron, 15 Mar. 2022
  • When you’re done, backtrack to cross the suspension bridge, which leads to the last stretch of the trail: a 2.2-mile climb to the stone shelter at the summit of Cape Perpetua.
    oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The winner was thus a suspension bridge anchored to pillars on the two banks, rooted in dry land.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
  • From the bridge Walk across the highest suspension bridge in North America.
    Sarah Kuta, The Know, 30 July 2019
  • The rule of law in the United States is like a suspension bridge — still upright, but with cables snapping, one by one.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 June 2018
  • Issues with the suspension bridge came after it was being used as a detour due to the closure of the Brent Spence Bridge.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2020
  • One rendering showed the view from a 30-foot-high suspension bridge looking down on a tree.
    Spencer Soper, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Soak in the beauty of the ancient sandstone gorges and ravines, walk across the 200-foot suspension bridge and visit the nature center.
    Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2019
  • The Manhattan Bridge, which is a suspension bridge, must cope with floods and lightning, traffic and age.
    Elaisha Stokes, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Tom Sawyer Island joined the latter in 1956, allowing guests to run free amid caves, trails and a suspension bridge.
    Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • No suspension bridge had ever had its supports so far apart: At two miles, the bridge over the Messina Strait would have the world’s longest span.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
  • It was built during the Civil War and was the world’s longest suspension bridge when it was completed in 1866.
    Jerald Cooper, ELLE Decor, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The wobbly suspension bridge swings 230 feet over the Capilano River.
    Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Either way, don't miss the park's iconic suspension bridge.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • Outside the park is Predator Zip Line, which offers a two- to three-hour zip line tour across five lines and a suspension bridge high above the animals.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The length of Dexter's slender body, indeed, was just a suspension bridge between the edifices of his head and his hind legs.
    Tom Junod, Esquire, 14 July 2014
  • Swiss army knife of hikes features a rock tunnel, a small waterfall and one long suspension bridge.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Moreover, the state has faced close calls with ships and has had at least one a fatality decades ago, when a small car went over the edge of the Mackinac Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The city ordered the vendors off the bridge on Jan. 3, clearing a crush of sellers who had been hawking wares on the cramped pedestrian level of the suspension bridge’s Manhattan end.
    Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2024

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