Example sentences for: gertie

How can you use “gertie” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A tradition was born on Nov. 7, 1940, when "Galloping Gertie," the 4-month-old Tacoma Narrows Bridge, writhed, snapped, and collapsed.

  • I'll give it a try, Gertie, one told her friend.

  • Gertie would be hanging still, a marvel of suspension design, but for one rather obvious fault: Her stiffening girders--solid plates rather than the usual open trusses--caught the full blast in a high-wind corridor.

  • One of the town’s major year-round attractions is Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Gambling Hall, an old-fashioned (and legal) casino, where red-gartered dancing girls kick it up to a honky-tonk piano.

  • The day after Gertie opened, so did the world's longest floating bridge, which connected Seattle to its Eastside suburbs across Lake Washington.


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