Spans
[spænz]
Examples
- Joseph works on it for two years and makes it two spans too short. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On the 23d Hancock's corps was moved to the wooden bridge which spans the North Anna River just west of where the Fredericksburg Railroad crosses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The two main spans are 1,710 feet, and these both give a clear headway for navigation of 150 feet height. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The flanges are sunk flush into the top of the rail; thus the pocket iron spans the interstices between the rails. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Education, and education alone, spans the gap. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There are three great spans, the central one of which has a length of about 520 feet, and the others a few feet less. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- What is the link that spans the intervening centuries? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The width of the strait is divided by these towers into four spans--two of 460 feet each, and two of 230 feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It has two side spans of 930 feet each between the towers and the shore. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Suspension bridges are best adapted for long spans, and have been constructed with spans more than twice as long as any other form. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It crosses two channels formed by the island of Inchgarvie, and each of the channel spans is 1710 feet in the clear and a clear headway of 150 feet under the bridge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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