How to Use truss bridge in a Sentence

truss bridge

noun
  • The trail approached a truss bridge that crossed the Rezan River.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Clark Verkler raised the flag on the historic truss bridge over Lake Natoma.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • This bridge's structural system is defined as an arched truss bridge with a deck suspended from the truss.
    — Adel Abdelnaby, CNN, 17 May 2021
  • The path also crosses the iconic 1908 truss bridge.
    — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 4 June 2026
  • Officials plan to build a roughly 475-foot steel truss bridge to span the landslide.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
  • As the park expanded and grew more popular, the iron truss bridge came under scrutiny.
    — IndyStar, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Only the fourth one, a spindly little wisp of a truss bridge, held its own for the full ten minutes without so much as an angel hair out of place.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The first is on how the cost of information has collapsed relatively faster than a truss bridge with its supports knocked out.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Work to replace the rusty truss bridge will begin this fall and stretch until August 2023.
    — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Hikers hit all the highlights, including the truss bridge and scenic overlooks of the King and Queen formations.
    — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 4 June 2026
  • The Brent Spence Bridge, built in 1963, is considered a cantilevered truss bridge.
    — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The old bridge, dating back to 1914, was a Pratt pony truss bridge, with a web of vertical and diagonal beams.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Both bridges were built as a wrought iron truss bridge with a timber deck, according to Harford County’s government website.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2023
  • There had been some discussion putting the trail over the old railroad truss bridge, built in 1893, offering bikers and joggers a historic pass.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The project, which replaced a 1959 truss bridge, was the biggest bridge replacement job in the state’s history and came at a cost of more than half a billion dollars.
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Gainesville’s iconic big green truss bridge on State Route 369 was recently awarded to a contractor for replacement.
    — Karen Huppertz, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
  • Few people outside the global maritime industry had heard of Synergy before its ship took out the second-longest continuous truss bridge span in the world.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Balancing Rock trail high above the river for dizzying overlooks or the longer Split Rock Creek Trail that passes by the historic truss bridge.
    — Joie Probst, Midwest Living, 10 Apr. 2026
  • By the 1980s, that cantilever-truss bridge was posing problems for large new container ships headed for the Port of Savannah.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Kapellbrücke, covered wooden pedestrian truss bridge in Lucerne, Switzerland, crossing the Reuss River.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Mar. 2026
  • His dad, Irving (Strong), is a tightly wound plumber who tends to prattle on whether or not anyone’s listening, about subjects as random as the perfect load-bearing qualities of a truss bridge.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
  • Engineer Deneatra Henderson says good uses for the 60-foot long steel Pratt pony truss bridge include adding it to a hiking and biking trail or as part of a golf course cart path.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The work includes replacing the metal decking and repainting the distinctive green truss bridge, which spans the American River just west of Interstate 5.
    — sacbee, 12 Jan. 2018
  • It was raised over the Spokane River when the city was hurriedly replacing its wooden and steel truss bridges, giving the town a modern appearance and the unofficial moniker City of Bridges.
    — Nicholas Deshais, The Seattle Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Today, the mill’s adventurous customers can ride a zip line over the treetops and above the historic Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge, an all-metal suspension truss bridge that’s beloved of railroad buffs.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The circumstances may have been somewhat different, but the outcome was strikingly similar — a seemingly sturdy truss bridge, a crucial component of the federal interstate system, was suddenly gone.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
  • There aren’t many hiking trails in Southern California that feature hummingbirds, a fishing lake, a 440-foot-long truss bridge, an abundance of native plants and coastal wetlands all in one uninterrupted stretch.
    — Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • The River Park hopes to break ground by the end of the year on the Osuna segment at the east end of the Surf Park—the new one-mile trail portion will include a 150-foot-long steel truss bridge across the San Dieguito River.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025

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