build on

Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

Now is the time to build for the future, and to avoid paying too much attention to immediate profits.

The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.

Ki Pak's servants proceeded to build a fire in the centre of the yard and the cook made preparations for getting supper.