What is "viaducts"

Usage examples of "viaducts".

At Castlefield, they were busy creating yesterday's city today, cleaning up the old brick viaducts and warehouses, recobbling the quaysides, putting fresh coats of glossy paint on the old arched footbridges and scattering about a generous assortment of old-fashioned benches, bollards and lampposts.

The teetering spires and hyperbolas loom so tall their lower stories disappear below in a haze of ramparts and sparkling viaducts and spans that meld with distance to a golden ether.

It unwound its way through those, across more spindly viaducts and long tunnels, descending all the time and stopping at small, quiet towns along the way, amongst forests and green lakes and rock spires plinthed in scree.

Or if the bridges or viaducts are constructed with cheap or substandard materials or labor?

He ended up importing them from Italy, which is why the viaducts and this house are built to metric measurement, not imperial.

Troy was built where it was so many centuries ago largely because of the huge aquifer under it—the city has four giant wells that always run fresh and deep—but to be on the safe side, Priam long ago ordered a tributary of the River Simois to the north of Ilium diverted and run through easily defended canals and underground viaducts into the city proper.

These Britons had been co-ordinating guerrilla groups, with the intention of blowing up the viaducts of the singletrack railway that was the main supply route that led eventually from Piraeus to Crete, and thence to Tobruk.

He stared at the seat across from him, ignoring the cityscape as it slid by, the train accelerating along viaducts towards the suburbs and the countryside.

Outside, the countryside was mountainous, full of tunnels and tall viaducts spanning boulder-torn torrents.

Her gaze is lost overhead in the skyways and viaducts webbing high out of sight among the monoliths and casting vaporous shadows on the pave.

Choose a stretch where a lot of construction was necessary, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, even long cuttings, and take a percentage on materials—the possibilities are numerous.

He dimly remembered some plan to use the arches of viaducts to house the homeless.