Example Sentences

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“Here where Nature has builded her finest playground, man has added the material things which provide the comforts that make life worth while,” proclaimed a 1921 advertisement in The Times titled “The Great Southwest.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

Here again nature has builded a stronghold easy to defend, difficult exceedingly to attack.

From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert

He who took up, elaborated, and has brought to fulfillment the plans of the father whose own life had been sacrificed in their furtherance, has builded to both the noblest memorial.

From Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 by Kingsley, William C.

Earth upon earth winneth castles and towers, Then saith earth unto earth this is all ours; But when earth upon earth has builded his bowers, Then shall earth upon earth suffer hard showers.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire

What a career he has builded for himself in Harvey and the West.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen