- present tense form of bridge (3rd person singular).
bridges
Example Sentences
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I hate the very sound of the word; it brings to my mind nothing but county jails, bridewells, turnpikes, and ministers' money.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
The Lords' Committee, of course, insisted on the necessity of discontinuing the committal of lunatics to jails and bridewells, and amending the Act 1 Vict., c.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack
Nay, rather cloisters, bridewells, or slaughterhouses—grown old among a company of boys, deaf with their noise, and pined away with stench and nastiness.
From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John
How eloquently she enlarges upon the gin she has drunk, the children she has confided to the parish, the watchmen whose noses she has broken, and the bridewells which she has visited in succession!
From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley
