bridge

noun

Definition of bridgenext
as in land

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Recent Examples of bridge Climb the Mighty Mac's towers Each year, 50 people get the rare chance to tour the Mackinac Bridge's towers, overlooking the Straits of Mackinac from atop the 5-mile long bridge. — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2026 The image below shows a power plant and bridge less than a mile downriver from the border post before and after the flood. — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 The canal traverses the Isthmus of Suez, which is the sole land bridge between Africa and Asia. — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026 While Chapman has given the Red Sox a strong present and a likely bridge into 2027, Kimbrel is still chasing a return to the closer role that defined his prime. — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 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
  • Those payloads give crews a visible way to assess where training rockets land during live-fire exercises.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of land
Noun
  • Coming nine years after the space shuttle program’s close, their 2020 test flight to the International Space Station restored America’s ability to launch crews from home soil.
    — Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said any unilateral US action on Mexican soil would be a grave breach of her country’s sovereignty.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of soil
Noun
  • In 2025, Mestiza became the first female DJ duo to get a residency at the Hï Ibiza club on the Spanish island known as a destination for electronic music lovers.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
  • There are a total of 39 units, most of which have been renovated as of 2024, swapping an old Florida aesthetic for something more contemporary island chic.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of island
Noun
  • The light that does reach the moon is filtered through the earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Popular and literary myth tells that when martyrs die on the soil, the earth receiving their blood will give forth new fighters, thus the roses scattered on the cracking mud.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of earth
Noun
  • The movie, featured in the Venice Spotlight section of the fest, looks to break new ground.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In this context, Lord’s has more than done its bit — no English ground has seen more swing movement or more seam movement post-pandemic.
    — Ben Jones Aug. 26, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of ground
Noun
  • The neighborhood Governador Celso Ramos is a paradise of a peninsula hiding behind a bureaucratic-sounding name—literally a 20th-century governor.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Brawley School Road is a busy Lake Norman four-lane highway that leads east from the exit to downtown Mooresville and southwest on a peninsula to Trump National Golf Club Charlotte and Lake Norman Yacht Club.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of peninsula
Noun
  • Once the novelty wore off, many ended up in storerooms gathering dust.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This is because the material that serves as the building blocks for planets is constantly escaping the swirling platters of gas and dust, or protoplanetary disks, that wrap around infant stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of dust

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“Bridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bridge. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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