build
verb (used with object)
to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials.
have builded
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present perfectof build.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We have builded our Camp anew, & as it saith in Genesis, “/ dwell in the Tents of Shem.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Any place where men have builded a jail, a bagnio, a gallows, a morgue, a church, a hospital, a saloon, and laid out a cemetery—hence a center of life.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert
A monument outlasting brass I have builded, Higher than pyramids in their crumbling glory, That no devouring storm, nor futile North wind Can overthrow, nor years in long succession, Nor fleeting seasons.
From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Reed, Helen Leah
It's hard to see the dreams go: to watch the castle you have builded on the shifting sands crumble and fall.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith
So men pass away, and their names perish, even though the structures they have builded may survive a few hundred, or a few thousand years.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
