Bridged
[brɪdʒ]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Bridge
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Examples
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The barriers between Africa, Asia, and Europe were lowered or bridged by that time, but mixing had not gone far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing places on it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The natural difficulties of the first lines were increased a hundredfold, greater marshes had to be crossed, greater streams to be bridged, greater hills to be tunneled. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They were rapidly bridged in the same manner as those previously encountered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Hellespont was bridged at Abydos, and upon a hill was set a marble throne from which Xerxes surveyed the whole array of his forces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Other authors have thus hypothetically bridged over every ocean, and united almost every island with some mainland. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- End to end they lay, and so they just bridged the street neatly, from gutter to gutter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The country back to the James River is cut up with many streams, generally narrow, deep, and difficult to cross except where bridged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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