bridge

noun

Definition of bridgenext
as in land

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Recent Examples of bridge Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026 The state unveiled designs for a new bridge in 2022, and now is working on construction, canopy installation and architectural work. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026 The stadium expansion plan comes as the riverfront area continues rapidly transforming with new apartments, retail, outdoor amenities, a streetcar expansion, a pedestrian bridge and more near and on what was once a landfill. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026 It is operated in conjunction with the local casino resort to bridge the two communities without a nearby bridge. — Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bridge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bridge
  1. land
  2. soil
  3. island
  4. earth
  5. ground
  6. peninsula
  7. dust
Noun
  • Fertile lands afforded the capacity to grow export crops that supported farmers and made plantation owners fabulously wealthy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Before construction began, the lot of land was flat and covered with vegetation.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of land
Noun
  • The vigils, which drew tens of thousands of people a year, were the only large-scale public commemoration on Chinese soil of the Tiananmen crackdown, discussion of which is heavily censored in mainland China.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
  • In the panicked days after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, New Yorkers agreed that their city had changed forever.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of soil
Noun
  • Any additional eastward shifts in the track could bring even stronger winds and greater impacts to the islands.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of treating each rack as a separate computing island, the architecture aims to make resources across the facility operate as a coordinated system.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of island
Noun
  • Each of its elements began, long ago, in the loamy earth, hatching and creeping or slipping, slick and squealing, from the womb of the mind.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Gadolinite was later found to contain several previously unknown elements belonging to the rare-earth group.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of earth
Noun
  • In August, the court, powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, blocked an earlier order by that judge on procedural grounds.
    — Reuters, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
  • If voted out, LSU could explore suing the conference on multiple grounds, including breach of contract and tortious interference with contractual relations, and seek many millions of dollars in damages.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of ground
Noun
  • The expansion of the Roman Empire connected the Italian peninsula to extensive long-distance trade networks.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The peninsula’s most recent brown bear population estimate of 582 comes from a 2010 study.
    — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of peninsula
Noun
  • Questions remain about how many people developed health problems linked to the dust.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
  • At the Great Omari Mosque, volunteers use paintbrushes to lift dust and gunpowder from the few thousand books that survived from a collection of twenty thousand.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of dust

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