CONSTRUCTION in a Sentence
Learn CONSTRUCTION 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.
128 example sentences for CONSTRUCTION, such as:
1. The railway is still under construction.
2. The hotel is currently under construction.
3. The construction site was a hive of activity.
4. They have traced the plan of the construction site.
5. He'd already started construction on a hunting lodge.
2. The hotel is currently under construction.
3. The construction site was a hive of activity.
4. They have traced the plan of the construction site.
5. He'd already started construction on a hunting lodge.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONSTRUCTION
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construction
n. a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
n. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1 The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he resisted the galley guards who seized him.
2 The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass there, as it were.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3 Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, there are excavations of all sorts.
4 There was no paper pasted on the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the coarse construction was visible in its nakedness.
5 Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf.
6 A clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that some sinister construction of iron was approaching.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
7 An obscure ramification ever at work; a construction which is immense and ignored.
8 The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been corrected.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
9 Mr. Peggotty seemed very much shocked at himself for having made a speech capable of this unfeeling construction, but was prevented from replying, by Peggotty's pulling his sleeve, and shaking her head.
10 I passed three days in a luxury of wretchedness, torturing myself by putting every conceivable variety of discouraging construction on all that ever had taken place between Dora and me.
11 I assure you I am in no danger of putting any strained construction on your motives.
12 "Es ist ein ganz einfaches Ding," and he began to explain the construction of the machine.
13 "It's a pity Johnnie Gallegher is tied up with Tommy Wellburn on that construction work," she thought.
14 Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads.
15 There were a number of bath-houses along the beach, of rough but solid construction, built with small, protecting galleries facing the water.
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1 The construction site was a hive of activity.
2 He'd already started construction on a hunting lodge.
3 It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof.
4 They had to battle through thick mud to reach construction workers.
5 The hotel is currently under construction.
6 The railway is still under construction.
7 He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
8 An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction.
9 The fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons.
10 B - indicate little more than the immediate place of work during the construction of the pavements of a single building.
11 These policies have sent the construction industry into an abrupt nosedive.
12 In the example mentioned above, either method of construction could have been used.
13 Unworthy buildings should be demolished to make room for modern construction.
14 In two to three weeks, Ehrlich said, the Commerce Department plans publish statistics on durable goods orders and construction spending.
15 They have traced the plan of the construction site.