How to Use footbridge in a Sentence

footbridge

noun
  • We built a wooden footbridge over the creek.
  • Pushing the man from the footbridge seems to cross one of those lines.
    — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2011
  • But the spindly, fragile footbridge was too weak to bear the weight of all this love.
    — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The water in the creek a block away skimmed the bottom of the footbridge.
    — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Any footbridge violence has been done to the spans, not by them.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
  • On an overhead footbridge stands a man large enough to stop the trolley.
    — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2011
  • And the long footbridge crossing that’s like an artery into the city.
    — Julia Sammut With Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 3 July 2024
  • Parents kept their children away from the footbridge that day.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • The city is criss-crossed with canals, footbridges, and historic stone buildings.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2018
  • Peer down To enter the home through the front door, there’s a short footbridge to cross.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • But a street and a footbridge have already been named for Ortiz.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Stone steps lead down to a footbridge over a beautiful stretch of the river.
    — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2021
  • A couple walking by a footbridge above the highway was stunned by the macabre scene.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Cross a footbridge over the creek and continue west on a narrow, rocky trail.
    — Danika Worthington, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • Red howler monkeys swung from the cables of a footbridge and screeched in the jungle.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • This isn't a bunch of Boy Scouts building a footbridge across the creek.
    — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 24 May 2017
  • Today, the footbridge over the park’s lagoon is named in his honor.
    — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • But there’s still an door footbridge in one building as part of a jungle-like setting.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The swamp covers most of the first floor, with footbridges spanning the gaps between dry land.
    — Cort Gatliff, Southern Living, 23 June 2015
  • The swamp covers most of the first floor, with footbridges spanning the gaps between dry land.
    — Cort Gatliff, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • The footbridge, built in 1905, closed two years after the road.
    — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
  • This footbridge was rebuilt by a Boy Scouts troop about 15 years ago.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Separate footage showed two men in black shirts firing with long guns from a footbridge leading to the beach.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Separate footage showed two men in black shirts firing with long guns from a footbridge leading to the beach.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Stone stairs climb to a waterfall where visitors find a footbridge.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The gun found on the footbridge after the 1993 attack.
    — Lauren Clark, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • In previous years, the sign was hung on the footbridge without going through the city’s permit process.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Or the snaking footbridge that allows someone in a wheelchair to ascend a 35-foot slope.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2022
  • 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
  • Beyond a street-side gated entry, a wood footbridge lined with nautical rope empties at the house.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2025

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