Structure carrying a railway or road in the air

Usage examples of viaduct.

It then descends across ravines bridged by viaducts to the valley floor, dropping to a level of 6011 ft.

Avoiding the swift rush of an electric suburban train, Pocky Bender headed for one of the steel anchorage supports of the viaduct.

The viaduct lay at the end of Ratal Cosmodrome, as a memorial of the days when planetary liners had not yet been adapted for vertical takeoff.

The train went on through the tunnels, along the slopes, above the water, on straight, wall-like viaducts, and a soft, vague, saltish smell, a smell of drying seaweed, mingled at times with the strong, heavy perfume of the flowers.

The brick viaducts which carry this arch the Spree again and again in their course through and around the city, but with never quite such spectacular effects as our spidery tressels, achieve.

Garabit viaduct carries the railway near St Flour, in the Cantal department, France, at 420 ft.

With great difficulty, we had deactivated all of the landside viaducts that were not already buried in ice so that the escaped Star Men would not be able to use them.

Garages and workshops occupy the arches of the viaduct, their doors opening onto shabby forecourts of granite setts slippery with oil.

O, for the third day in a row, Malachi Ward sat in the darkened Ford, watching the entrance to the apartment building perched above the E Street Expressway viaduct.

Rathbone recalled the foreman of the team of navvies who had worked on the Derby line, and drew from him greater and more tedious detail of the cutting and blasting necessary to drive a track through a hillside, coupled with the labor and cost of building a viaduct.

The great valley, embracing villages, small towns, viaducts, rivers, waterfalls, with a beautiful, frank delight in its own lavish exuberant loveliness, spread itself before them in a thousand prodigal colours, plunging downhill by many half-seen terraces, rising beyond by as many more, through planes of trees and cliffs of rosy rock, to distant creamy summits on the skyline, cool against the bright, excited blue.

West of Uxbridge is the valley of the Colne, and over this the road runs on a viaduct of brick and concrete pillars, the viaduct being I suppose &frac14 mile long.

These corrugations ran from the rim's rough hills down into the basin, forcing the piste viaduct to alternate between great arching bridges and deep cuts, or tunnels.

These corrugations ran from the rim’s rough hills down into the basin, forcing the piste viaduct to alternate between great arching bridges and deep cuts, or tunnels.

Everywhere the silt encroached, shoring itself in huge banks against a railway viaduct or crescent of offices, oozing through a submerged arcade like the fetid contents of some latter-day Cloaca Maxima.