BUILD in a Sentence
Learn BUILD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for BUILD, such as:
1. If you build it they will come.
2. It is easier to pull down than build.
3. Man wanted to tear down, not build up.
4. He's heavier in build than his brother.
5. She had sold him lumber to build his house.
2. It is easier to pull down than build.
3. Man wanted to tear down, not build up.
4. He's heavier in build than his brother.
5. She had sold him lumber to build his house.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BUILD
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build
v. order, supervise, or finance the construction of
n. constitution of the human body
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
2 There were young ex-soldiers who lacked the courage to face the long years necessary to build up fortunes.
3 But we will build back, because we have hearts like yours to build upon.
4 The apathy which had clutched them immediately after the war had completely disappeared and they were too busy building their own fortunes to help her build hers.
5 You'll want me to bank you, at some incredibly low interest, so you can buy more mills and more mules and build more saloons.
6 She had sold him lumber to build his house.
7 And while we are on the subject of real estate, Scarlett," he said, "I am going to build a house.
8 He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
9 I hear Mrs. Trenor wants to build out a new ball-room, and that divergence from Gus on that point keeps her at Bellomont.
10 The poor little working-girl who had found strength to gather up the fragments of her life, and build herself a shelter with them, seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of existence.
11 Man wanted to tear down, not build up.
12 Well, you'll have plenty of privacy when we build a new house.
13 It was a humble wife who followed the busy doctor out to the carriage, and her ambition was not to play Rachmaninoff better, nor to build town halls, but to chuckle at babies.
14 Perhaps some day the farmers will build and own their market-towns.
15 She wanted to go on talking, to get this threshed out, to build a sane friendship.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Youth is to prepare the material, want to build a bridge to the moon, or on the ground and two palaces or temples.
2 We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
3 We are going to build a shopping mall in this area.
4 Ask the carpenter to build in some cupboards.
5 If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.
6 The members of the town coucil disputed for hours about whether to build a new museum.
7 She did circuit training and lifted weights to build her fitness.
8 The Archbishop called upon the government to build more low cost homes for local residents.
9 He is not a person whose promise you can build on.
10 The wind began to build and the sleet to blow about.
11 He's heavier in build than his brother.
12 A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
13 If you build it they will come.
14 It is easier to pull down than build.
15 Big waves will never build up in a small bay.