How to Use build a bridge in a Sentence
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The total time to build a bridge is often more than five years.
—Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
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The original plan was to build a bridge over the busy highway.
—Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
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One story leads to many more, which build a bridge between the two women.
—Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2024
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My job is to build a bridge between my work and someone who may not be trained in the sciences.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
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This debate should go far beyond the question of whether to build a bridge or a tunnel.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
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Pei says Nothing’s job is to build a bridge from the current systems to the next ones.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 5 June 2024
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In fact, the Russians had to build a bridge to Crimea just to resupply it.
—ABC News, 24 Apr. 2022
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Make an effort to avoid placing specific blame, and build a bridge instead.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2024
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Kiger-Stoffel said her group is working to build a bridge between small towns and cities to end the drug war.
—Jack Shuler, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
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Consider talking things out with them and attempting to build a bridge.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
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If one side wants to build a bridge over a canyon and the other side doesn’t, the smartest course isn’t to build half a bridge that stops in thin air.
—Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
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To build a bridge between the two groups to put the people back in their rightful place at the head of the republic.
—Aaron Everitt, STAT, 10 Apr. 2026
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There are plans to widen sections of Bonds Ranch Road as well as build a bridge over the train tracks.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
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And Poles was asked to explain why, in his view, the sides couldn’t build a bridge toward a compromise.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
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For example, mergers and acquisitions can drive a wedge or build a bridge.
—Lauren Pasquale Bartlett, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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The result doesn’t just build a bridge between two seemingly disparate areas of study.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
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The program needs help to build a bridge to its past but more importantly, set a sustainable course for its future.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Leaders need to step up and build a bridge with empathy to work toward solutions, Gray said.
—Nathaniel Cary, USA TODAY, 31 May 2020
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Still, Venita wanted to try to build a bridge with Kathryn and asked Leva for advice.
—Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2022
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In teams, players then had to build a bridge and carry heavy bags of sand over it, eventually even having to move a 2-ton ship.
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
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Players must build a bridge using 16 planks, cross it to the the other side, and hit the lever to burn their opponents' bridge.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
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Consider a hybrid model that can build a bridge from being fully remote to being in person.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
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My objective is to build a bridge to this entire world that lives in Spanish and that seems to not exist for the rest of society.
—Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
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Yet without characters charismatic enough to build a bridge to the audience, these valid concerns still feel distant.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2024
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However, an unexpected revelation leads her to use her cookies to build a bridge to the outside world.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2023
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Funding was made available to build a bridge over the White River, but no money was available at that time for building a road to the bridge.
—Randy McCrory Vintage Bentonville, arkansasonline.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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Instead of a top-down approach, Circ looked to the suppliers that were already familiar with their fiber to build a bridge to their brand partners.
—Rhonda Richford, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
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Carmel also will build a bridge at Conner Prairie connecting Carmel and Fishers.
—John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2021
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In certain species, if the foraging group needs to cross a gap to another tree branch, the ants will build a bridge out of their own bodies to allow their coworkers to step across.
—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
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To say that bike lanes should wait until there are sufficient numbers of riders asking for it is akin to waiting to build a bridge until a number of folks drive into the river.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
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