How to Use trestle in a Sentence

trestle

noun

• And so was the end of the useful life for the trestles.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
• And who knows if the Willow Glen trestle still will be around in the fall.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 22 June 2019
• This isn’t the case for the trestle bridge across the Hop River in Coventry.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Eight cars went off the tracks, with four of them falling from a trestle bridge.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 27 May 2020
• Built around 1896, the trestle was part of the city’s streetcar system.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• The train was almost as wide as the trestle bridge and (approached) at a rapid speed ...
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 24 Apr. 2017
• Metro acquired the trestle in 1997 in the settlement of a lawsuit and has found no use for it.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
• During the storm, a railroad trestle broke free and struck the Cline home, tearing it apart.
  — Daniel Pendick, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2018
• The next morning, there were gouges in the earth where the rain had fallen down a stone retaining wall at the foot of the train trestle.
  — Maud Newton, Curbed, 11 Jan. 2022
• Herring Run washed away the wagon bridge and the streetcar trestle.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2019
• Now, decades after the rails and most of the trestles have been removed, the old railroad bed will be reborn.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• Part of an Amtrak train fell off a trestle into the bayou and caught fire.
  — Alexandrea Penn, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
• Prior to that crash, two other children were killed on the trestle in Old Town.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2023
• Don't hunt, fish or bungee jump from railroad trestles.
  — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• In Hilbert, flooding washed away part of a train trestle, causing cars from a train to derail.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2018
• Brown is a fan of the Eddy’s floating wooden trestle-style legs.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• This abandoned trestle bridge in Hope BC is about 20 minutes hike off the highway.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 July 2018
• The most scenic stretches of the trail are from Fanning Springs to a mile or so beyond the trestle and the 7-mile-long leg that goes to quaint little Trenton.
  — Bonnie Gross, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• The only way to safety was to hide out in a smaller tunnel on the other side of a burning trestle.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• Swiveling hula hoops around waists, kids walked the beach to a train trestle where the Santa Ana River entered the ocean.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• Then get out on the water: Heimann recommends kayaking around the old railroad trestles on the north end of the island.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
• The waters of the Quinebaug River sweep peacefully over a small dam and under an iron trestle bridge.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 20 May 2018
• A man appeared north of a trestle over 266th Street in Kent, and the crew put the train into emergency brake but could not stop in time, the spokesperson said.
  — Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
• Metro owns the trestle and conducted the inspection last week.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
• Up there, over the narrow lagoon, was the trestle where a train once carried passengers on a three-mile circuit around the park.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Cellphone videos appeared to show that Hernández was hiding beneath a train trestle when he was shot in the head.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
• The weir basin is the open water west of the railroad trestle, an area controlled by the adjacent homeowners.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2019
• There are wooden beams and there are wires and cables and there is something silver like a trestle to her right, and there are bricks beyond that.
  — Keith Ridgway, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• A few miles away on private land stands the last of Maxville’s wooden railroad trestle bridges, still spanning a gully.
  — Brian Smale, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• Among the worst floods was the deluge of 1908 that swept outhouses, sheds, livestock and railroad trestles downstream.
  — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024