Sample Sentences for
trestle
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  • It was the second night following the morning at the trestle.  (source)
    trestle = bridge
  • He'd built a bridge of privilege for me, a hand-paved trestle to the good life, and I repaid him by chopping it down and crapping on the wreckage.  (source)
    trestle = support system for a bridge or raised road
  • One bore a white cloth embroidered at the edges with figures of animals; others bore on their broad backs trays with bowls and platters and knives and wooden spoons, which the dogs took and quickly laid on the trestle tables.  (source)
    trestle = sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop
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  • Professor Sprout was standing behind a trestle bench in the center of the greenhouse.†  (source)
  • They fly noiselessly beneath the bridge trestles; they have beasts with them on chains; their beasts leap out of the boats and sprint past the massifs of flowers, down the rows of hedges.†  (source)
  • The long trestled picnic tables, covered with the finest of the Wilkeses' linen, always stood under the thickest shade, with backless benches on either side; and chairs, hassocks and cushions from the house were scattered about the glade for those who did not fancy the benches.†  (source)
  • The trestle tables had been dismantled and the benches shoved against the walls.†  (source)
  • Two rows of trestles ran down the middle of the hall and near one of them sat Fetiukov of the 104th.†  (source)
  • An hour or more later the clack of the train changed pitch: we were crossing a trestle.†  (source)
  • There were several trestles in the clearing.†  (source)
  • We found it a hundred yards past a timber trestle bridge.†  (source)
  • The furniture consisted of some chairs and trestles.†  (source)
  • Mother was so nervous, she bathed —into the trestle table while curtsying.†  (source)
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