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footbridge
[ foot-brij ]
noun
- a bridge intended for pedestrians only.
footbridge
/ ˈfʊtˌbrɪdʒ /
noun
- a narrow bridge for the use of pedestrians
Word History and Origins
Origin of footbridge1
Example Sentences
Remains of what may have been footbridges appear in and adjacent to waterways between marsh islands, a possibility that further excavations can explore.
“The idea that the walls of a building could become a footbridge—to our knowledge, this is completely new,” says Corentin Fivet, an architect and structural engineer at EPFL, and one of the bridge-builders.
At first glance, it looks like a simple footbridge, a gentle arch.
Fire officials on Wednesday had identified the location as Polk Street, which is about a half-mile north — the site of another footbridge.
At my hotel, which was connected by a footbridge to the state’s largest hospital, the nonprofit Sanford Medical Center, young people mingled mask-free in the lobby, shouting gleefully over a case of Bud Lights.
He remembered a footbridge the other volunteers had guessed at.
In a clever twist of new-meets-old, the MuCEM is connected to the nearby 17th-century Fort St. Jean by footbridge.
Then I wandered on down, through the Rhodes grass, under the avocado trees, and across the wooden footbridge.
Occasionally, over a narrow stream, a frail footbridge would be built.
They were going to a distant meadow to toss hay and had to cross an angry little river on a footbridge made of one slender plank.
A low whistle sounded, and Mr. Rogers stepped into view on the footbridge.
We can't be expected to jump off a footbridge which already has a White Horse on it.
After about two hours, however, orders came to cross the river by the Eterpigny footbridge.
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