Damaris turned to the left, across the single-arch stone bridge spanning the Arne, and drove on up the long winding ascent from the valley to the moorland and fir plantations which range inland behind Stourmouth.
I thought he was creeping down that way, but I was not prepared for a leapspanning such a tremendous parenthesis of boarders as this change of position included.
The sage-green moss spanning the spruces turned to a jewel-dropped thing in a sun-bathed rain-washed world of flawless clouds and jubilant waters.
She passed out to the piazza spanning all sides of the ranch house.
It was an immense structure, spanning not only the river, but the swampy banks on either side to a great distance.
Spanning the pond near the dam, was a bridge of logs which they had neglected to destroy.
While this was going on Sherman was confronting a rebel battery which enfiladed the road on which he was marching--the Mississippi Springs road--and commanded a bridge spanning a stream over which he had to pass.
For this reason a trap placed at either end of a log spanning a stream that is too wide for them to jump forms a most killing set.
Let your eyes run along the strips of beach and boggy, peer under overhanging banks and among piles of drift, and scrutinize closely every log spanning streams.
Here we crossed the bridge spanning the Yorkshire River Ouse, which almost adjoined Aldborough, and were directed for lodgings to the house of a widowed lady quite near the church.
All generations shall call her blessed,' for on that tender woman bosom rests that wondrous God-built arch spanning the awful Chaim between the sinful human and the Perfect Infinite!
Such a fine stone bridge as the one that takes the old mail road over the Towy at Llandilo with one mighty arch, how grandly effective a similar bridge would look spanning the Severn boldly so at Ironbridge!
Although her repertoire includes piano works spanning the last 250 years, Ruth has concentrated largely on Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, a Russian composer of the same era.
Conducting his choral group, the Gregg Smith Singers, who usually have anywhere from 16 to 32 voices, he performs works spanning the last four centuries of the Western classical tradition.
Then, as if built up by music, a rainbow rose and grew above Leucadia, planting one foot on Actium and the other on Ithaca, and spanning with a horseshoe arch that touched the zenith, the long line of roseate cliffs.
Through these towns and across the bridgesspanning the Delaware roll constant processions of coal trains bringing the anthracite out from the Lehigh and Wyoming coal-fields to market.
There, too, was the usual bridge, spanning a foul flood, wherein condemned spirits wallowed.
Shew'd me that epic was of all the king, Round, vast, and spanning all like Saturn's ring?
Rings of iron tunnel lining, backed by timbers spanning the openings on the west side, were erected temporarily across the shafts in order to afford a bearing for the shield jacks while shoving into the portals.
Spanning the latter, and forming the continuous metal tunnel lining, the special construction shown by Fig.
Hard by the spot there was a paper mill, spanning a pretty little river, the Coln, which kept the machinery in motion.
Then, afterwards, it appeared to me like an altar of frosted silver, spanning the end of a temple choir, sending up incense for ever and ever!
The victory, won in the narrow gorge of the Eisack, was commemorated in the name of the bridge Pons Drusi spanning the river, hard by which now stands the interesting mediaeval town of Bozen.
Her great, smooth bow lay straight ahead, metal hawser arm spanning the thirty feet between them.
And, spanning the short gulf between them, an arm of webbed metal craned from the other's huge bow, hooking tightly into the American submarine's forward hawser holes!
Small wonder my father was a philosopher, in his own lifetime spanning the history of man from human sacrifice and idol worship, through the religions of man's upward striving, to the Medusa of rank atheism at the end of it all.
Among the improvements of the time is a bridge spanning the Platte river, three miles south of the town, the completion of which was celebrated July 4th, '73, and was the first river bridge west of Columbus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spanning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: incumbent; lapping; shingled; superincumbent
