How to Use trestle in a Sentence

trestle

noun
  • Eight cars went off the tracks, with four of them falling from a trestle bridge.
    — John D'anna, azcentral, 27 May 2020
  • Ties and rails were laid, tunnels were cut through the mountain walls, and trestles and bridges put in.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • And who knows if the Willow Glen trestle still will be around in the fall.
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 22 June 2019
  • And then Ben notices that there are claw marks down the trestle’s support beams.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 July 2024
  • Part of an Amtrak train fell off a trestle into the bayou and caught fire.
    — Alexandrea Penn, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Brown is a fan of the Eddy’s floating wooden trestle-style legs.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Video shows part of the train trestle on the bridge collapsed while the vessel also unleashed an oil spill.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 17 May 2024
  • Herring Run washed away the wagon bridge and the streetcar trestle.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2019
  • During the storm, a railroad trestle broke free and struck the Cline home, tearing it apart.
    — Daniel Pendick, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 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
  • The train crossed scenic rivers, trestles offered views resplendent of woods and water.
    — John Christopher Fine, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Metro owns the trestle and conducted the inspection last week.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Built around 1896, the trestle was part of the city’s streetcar system.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • Prior to that crash, two other children were killed on the trestle in Old Town.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 26 June 2023
  • This isn’t the case for the trestle bridge across the Hop River in Coventry.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The scenic journey zigzags along the river canyon and over a 137-foot trestle.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The officers also check in on a small homeless camp, with tents set up near a railroad trestle in the neighborhood.
    — Anna Douglas, charlotteobserver, 22 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • Some of the passenger cars derailed on the trestle itself, falling to the highway below.
    — Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Against the wall, a plywood trestle bore a series of 24 x 32-inch black-and-white photographs.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The old trestle, built about 1940, is supported by sets of wooden posts set 14 feet apart.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The piece is abstract, and combines — to break it down for the sake of easy discussion — the shape of a railroad trestle adorned with hummingbird feathers.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026

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