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pontoon bridge

NOUN
  1. a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons

How To Use pontoon bridge In A Sentence

  • Some US forces were north of the Euphrates River, but most were stuck south of the waterway as engineers tried to build a pontoon bridge there.
  • They built barrel bridges, roads, tramways, light railways, trenches, bunkers, pontoon bridges, trestle bridges and the Inglis Bridge.
  • They built barrel bridges, roads, tramways, light railways, trenches, bunkers, pontoon bridges, trestle bridges and the Inglis Bridge.
  • The Marines began laying their own pontoon bridge to carry over their heaviest trucks.
  • We struggled through long lines of heavy-laden country carts, and swarms of clattering _droskies_, all striving to force their way along with that hurry-skurry that adds to confusion and lessens speed; and we came at last to a long pontoon bridge, over which we crossed the Oka, and beyond which rises the hill-range or ravine, on the top and at the foot of which is built the straggling town of Nijni-Novgorod. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
  • Get engineers to build Pontoon bridges and abatis, and use sharpshooters to snipe at the enemy from a safe distance. Back To Gettysburg
  • They had some feather - brained scheme to float a pontoon bridge across the Channel.
  • In the early morning of 11 December, Burnside's engineers began laying pontoon bridges.
  • `Wait till we raft some Panzers over, wait till we get a pontoon bridge! IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Military engineers hurriedly constructed a pontoon bridge across the river.
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