BUILDING in a Sentence
Learn BUILDING 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 BUILDING, such as:
1. They designed us a beautiful building.
2. There's good money in empire building.
3. Then the railroad building era really began.
4. The tall building towered above all the others.
5. I have been building castles in the air with you.
2. There's good money in empire building.
3. Then the railroad building era really began.
4. The tall building towered above all the others.
5. I have been building castles in the air with you.
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Meanings and Examples of BUILDING
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building
n. the act of constructing something
n. a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The young man, skirting the side of the building, went down the slope toward the basement door.
2 He stood on the blackened foundation stones of the burned building, looked down the long avenue of trees leading toward the road and swore lustily, with a joy too deep for thankful prayer.
3 Then the railroad building era really began.
4 There's good money in empire building.
5 And Mrs. Meade told me she was thinking about building a log cabin when the doctor comes back to help her.
6 Someone had to nurse him and that meant one less worker at the business of fence building, hoeing, weeding and plowing.
7 Surrounding the building completely and covering the square of land of which it was the center were row after row of army huts, dingy and mud splashed.
8 She looked down the street toward the firehouse and saw that the wide arched doors were closed and heavily barred and two sentries passed and repassed on each side of the building.
9 It was raining when she came out of the building and the sky was a dull putty color.
10 He had given up all hope of continuing his medical studies and was now a contractor, working a labor crew of Irishmen who were building the new hotel.
11 She even talked of building a saloon on the property where her warehouse had been until Sherman burned it.
12 She had opened a new house of her own, a large two-story building that made neighboring houses in the district look like shabby rabbit warrens.
13 The demand for building materials was far greater than could be supplied.
14 While driving home with Uncle Peter one afternoon, she passed the house into which were crowded the families of three officers who were building their own homes with Scarlett's lumber.
15 He had contented himself with putting a flat roof on the remaining first floor which gave the building the squat, disproportionate look of a child's playhouse built of shoe boxes.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The tall building towered above all the others.
2 This is the sole means of access to the building.
3 She opened a savings account at the building society.
4 Beavers are famous for their skill in building dams across streams.
5 The various building programmes add up to several thousand new homes.
6 I have been building castles in the air with you.
7 It scared me to think I was alone in the building.
8 It was a building without any adornment or decoration.
9 The building of a new dam will displace thousands of people who live in this area.
10 The building doesn't fit in with the surrounding area.
11 The whole building was soon ablaze after the attack.
12 Your building society or bank will help arrange a mortgage.
13 There's a nine - storey apartment building next to the bank.
14 The police beat the door down in order to get into the building.
15 They designed us a beautiful building.