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How to use trestle in a sentence

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As the Union Pacific Railroad was being constructed, an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a large canyon in the West.
The bridge was the most important civil engineering aspect as streams and rivers were crossed by bird cage or trestle bridges of timber.
Nearby, the engineers are also building a timber trestle bridge to allow year round access for Klaipeda's rural residents to cross a flood plain.
The site, which is 5 metres by 7 metres, comes with two trestle tables, 20 plastic chairs and picket fencing.
Up ahead the engine rumbles across the trestle and clatters over the crossing tracks at State Line diamond.
Jaimie Todd's timbered design successfully evokes the world of the trestle bridge and the desolate prison.
Apparently no structures other than a trestle appeared on the branch to Ansted.
The eastern monolith had then been pulled over a rock-cut pit onto two masonry trestle supports, one at each end of the stone.
Half-drowsing in the train seat as dawn came, I looked out the window at a little sign before a trestle that identified the river it spanned.
They built barrel bridges, roads, tramways, light railways, trenches, bunkers, pontoon bridges, trestle bridges and the Inglis Bridge.
We swore we wouldn't have one Army trestle table in the place or one drop of magnolia on the walls.
We had a trestle table positively groaning with gifts to unload, so it wasn't a quick process.
Their water tanks were usually steel on stone bases, or sometimes supported on a trestle base made of rail.
Drinkers were served in the taproom, a large single room furnished with trestle tables and benches.
The river being nearly two miles wide and very shoaly, they thought a trestle bridge could be made to stand.
In a record time of 43 seconds, they cut off a piece of the log, not minding that the sawing trestle almost capsized.
Any profits help rehouse the city's homeless, so you might expect it would be run like a soup kitchen with trestle tables and urns of stewed tea.
You couldn't be more vulnerable if you were stripped naked and wheeled out on a trestle table for the waiting room to gawp at.
The North Platte was bridged with a low, timber trestle built on cedar piling.
He climbed off the concrete supports for the trestle and onto the rocky island shore.
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And there on a trestle table before us lay the body of Jarl Lodbrok, my friend, in whose side was my Broken Arrow.
She died of cold, on the trestle on which I had had her placed to send her home.
Leaving his man outside with the horses he advanced with a confident, sly smile, and without a word up to the long trestle table.
But yonder, quite at the end, what is that sort of trestle work with four motley puppets upon it, and more below?
And there I was, sitting, legs dangling, not knowing where I was, on a trestle or a flat, when the thing happened.
Who is that man beside the trestle, with a black doublet and a pale face?
Her husband is at present building a trestle on the Dunsmore track.
Again she must cross the dark Hoghole trestle alone on her way to the hut.
In column of twos he led his men out on the ties of the trestle bridge.
The culvert was built underneath a trestle which was afterwards filled in.
Rope drives were used to shift the cableways along the trestle.
Our troops are on that ridge and a squad is at the trestle over there.
About a mile distant there was a trestle spanning a deep gorge.
In the middle was a narrow table of teak on trestle legs, with two supporting bars of iron, of the kind called in Spain mesa de hieraje.
Now they looked out into great abysses, a trestle purring beneath their tread, or up to rocks that barred out half the stars.
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