How to Use viaduct in a Sentence

viaduct

noun
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  • The city does not own the main viaduct on the east side of Broad Street.
    — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • At this point, the team was only around 350 yards from the viaduct at the mouth of the gorge.
    — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Then, a few weeks ago, Ray found out the viaduct was to be closed and torn down.
    — Vianna Davila, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2019
  • Late on the first Monday of 2022, a handful of cars drove across the viaduct.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • For the viaduct project, one lane each way will be closed for the next 2½ years, 24 hours per day.
    — David Porter, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
  • The water from the viaduct flooded over the street and the current was strong enough to pull the car in.
    — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The eastbound lanes of I-70 over the viaduct will remain open.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Also called the East Avenue Bridge, the viaduct opened in 1938.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The viaduct exists to this day and is part of a DART streetcar route.
    — Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Barely three weeks old, the viaduct has done a lot of living.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • But Keith said 60 percent of the tracks will be on viaducts.
    — Brandon Formby and Sanya Mansoor, star-telegram.com, 7 May 2017
  • But, for now, city officials said the viaduct bridge is safe.
    — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2022
  • The viaduct replacement could begin in the next five years.
    — Jenna Carlesso, courant.com, 23 June 2017
  • Just past Madera the train passes bridges and viaducts being built for high-speed rail.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2019
  • Decades ago, Mission and I had come to L Boogie’s tower by the viaduct on the north side.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Behind them, at the entry to the main viaduct, stood two sturdy steel gates.
    — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The Fusion crashed 11 blocks away into a pillar of a viaduct.
    — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • For others, the viaduct is a neighborhood spot, somewhere to take kids at the end of a long day.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • The last train traveled the rails in 1984 and the viaduct was left to deteriorate.
    — Washington Post, 9 June 2018
  • This would have cured the walling effect of the viaduct, but would not have solved the traffic congestion.
    — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Portune has led the effort to get a $335 million viaduct built.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Their route took them under the blocklong viaduct along 63rd Street near State Street.
    — Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
  • Their route took them under the dingy, blocklong viaduct along 63rd Street near State Street.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • The viaduct will be replaced by a below-grade trench that’s being dug next to the freeway.
    — Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • People parked on the viaducts downtown and filled parking decks.
    — Joe Songer, AL.com, 4 July 2017
  • Grab a seat on the left-side of the train for the best views of the Glenfinnan viaduct, the bridge Harry travels over on his journey to Hogwarts.
    — Erin Gifford, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2017
  • The location, with the eyesore of the viaduct looming behind, is far from scenic.
    — Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario, The Seattle Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Just over the viaduct, change also has come to the American Velvet Mill.
    — Cathy Alter, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • The downtown fire broke out on a chilly morning at one of the airspace Caltrans properties, where piles of wooden pallets fueled flames that raged under the freeway viaduct for hours.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • Street racers, social media influencers and lovebirds helped make the 6th Street Bridge a citywide gathering spot after the remade viaduct first opened two years ago.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024

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