viaduct

[ UK /vˈa‍ɪədˌʌkt/ ]
[ US /ˈvaɪədəkt/ ]
NOUN
  1. bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley
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How To Use viaduct In A Sentence

  • A train is passing on a viaduct; a man carrying a large packagewith an expression of veiled menaceseems to be approaching the photographer. The Great Escape
  • For four years Alexander continued to run the company on his own, gaining a reputation as a talented construction engineer building fine bridges, viaducts and tunnels.
  • Despite many bridges, viaducts, embankments, cuttings and tunnels the lines twist and turn in detours around the hills.
  • The novel meshes together stories of the building of the viaduct and the city's waterworks with the tales of lovers and families trying to negotiate their way through personal, cultural and political struggles.
  • We've been told repeatedly that shutting down the viaduct is a public safety emergency. Tunnel Construction Could Be Delayed One Year « PubliCola
  • A viaduct would carry lines from the old Exchange site to Forster Square station, on a gradual descent, which would not interfere with road traffic.
  • We shall probably arrange an evening trip of some description, possibly along the Shrewsbury-Chester line, with its magnificent viaducts.
  • The subject of this volume is railway buildings, including bridges and viaducts, stations, signal boxes, and hotel and railway workers' houses.
  • The arches of active and disused railway viaducts are filled with restaurants, car repair workshops, markets, and businesses of other kinds.
  • It uses the building of an imposing railway viaduct as the backdrop for a period soap opera. Times, Sunday Times
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