unbridged
Americanadjective
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not spanned by or provided with a connecting bridge.
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(of a gap or divide between ideas, groups, etc.) not addressed or resolved, lacking continuity, cohesion, or reconciliation.
Example Sentences
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The shadow was long after all, the divide unbridged.
From Economist ● Jun. 29, 2017
Henry traveled by horseback on obscure bridle-paths, unbridged water courses, hearing the ringing of the woodman’s axe, and lived in a humble log cabin wore homespun dress, a true pioneer, a settler of the frontier.
From Forbes ● Jul. 30, 2014
But still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though the Communists could still cross their unbridged rivers by arranging makeshift spans of wicker boats at night, they were being forced more and more to avoid the roads.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wonderful journey, through storms of snow and rain, across bleak plains and morasses and unbridged rivers, was safely accomplished in about seventy days.
From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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