unbridged

American  

[uhn-brijd] / ʌnˈbrɪdʒd /

adjective

1. not spanned by or provided with a connecting bridge.

2. (of a gap or divide between ideas, groups, etc.) not addressed or resolved, lacking continuity, cohesion, or reconciliation.

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Example Sentences

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

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

But still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a while I travel with an American surveyor whose work is away out where he must swim unbridged streams, guard against poisonous snakes, and sleep where he can.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton