Example Sentences

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By the time the U.S. was erecting and decorating its state houses, courthouses, post offices and bridges, the fasces had taken on a distinctly American personality.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022

A crew was erecting scaffolding around the pedestal Monday afternoon, one of the first steps in what’s expected to be a weeks-long process.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2021

Kessler warned that he was erecting a maze of security systems.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2019

At the bottom of one tunnel a deep pit had been cut using a chain saw, and, next to the pit, a carpenter was erecting a wooden platform.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

Lawrence exploited to the limit the free labor of graduate students, an important key to low-cost operation of the enormous piece of capital equipment he was erecting.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik