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Example sentences for "building"

Lexicographically close words:
builded; builder; builders; buildest; buildeth; buildings; builds; buildup; built; buits
  1. You couldn't hide my old carcase as easily as you and Mallalieu hid those Building Society funds, you know.

  2. It had been said at the time that the two offenders had lost the building society's money in gambling and speculation, and there had been grounds for such a belief.

  3. He hurried out again and went rapidly down the High Street to the old-fashioned building near the Town Hall in which the one bank of the little town did its business, and in which the bank manager lived.

  4. Let's see--it was a Building Society that you defrauded, wasn't it?

  5. It appeared from the evidence adduced that for some time previous to 1881 there had been in existence in Wilchester a building society, the members of which were chiefly of the small tradesman and better-class working-man order.

  6. Both had been fully and firmly trusted, and it appeared from the evidence that they had had what practically amounted to unsupervised control of the building society's funds.

  7. Two better-class young working-men, charged with embezzling the funds of a building society to which they had acted as treasurer and secretary!

  8. As he perches on the peak of a building or other point of vantage, notice how vigorously he wags his tail when he calls, and turns his head this way and that, to keep an eye in all directions lest a bite should fly by him unawares.

  9. Save the starch boxes, cover them with strips of bark, or give them two coats of paint to match the building they are to be nailed on.

  10. Most birds are content to make one nest a year but not these, who, in their excess of wren energy, keep on building nest after nest in the vicinity of the one preferred for their chocolate brown eggs.

  11. There, on the third night, at twilight, sat Pierre by that lofty window of a beggarly room in the rear-building of the Apostles'.

  12. On the third night following the arrival of the party in the city, Pierre sat at twilight by a lofty window in the rear building of the Apostles'.

  13. But this new building very much exceeded the body of the church in height.

  14. On the way back the bear called up all the frogs that were in those parts, and said to them, "Fetch me up as many stones as possible from the bottom of the water, for I have an idea of building you a place of refuge in case of danger.

  15. Among the graves a spiry building stood, Whose tolling bell, resounding through the shade, Sung doleful ditties to the adjacent wood, 475 And many a dismal drowsy thing it said.

  16. Amid the graves a spiry building stands "Whose solemn knell resounding through the gloom "Shall call thee o'er the circumjacent lands "To the dull mansion destin'd for my tomb.

  17. But whether, when they have built it, they will think Jerusalem worth the building is quite a different matter.

  18. They were all of men murdered or dead of fevers, crossing the trail, or building the railroad, or digging insufficient ditches for De Lesseps.

  19. If there was a man or a woman secreted in the building the truth as to his own remarkable presence there last night might not be so far to seek after all.

  20. If the reader desires to see an example of the method of building without bricks, he may with advantage consult the notice of Hugh of Manchester in Edwin Butterworth’s “Biography of Eminent Natives of Manchester.

  21. It was a new building three stories high, and it was already falling to pieces, owing to work which must have been exceptionally dishonest to give so swiftly the effect of caducity.

  22. Michael was building brick by brick a bridge for Mrs. Ross to step over the chasm of three years.

  23. The front door armed with the exaggerated defenses of an earlier period in building tempted him to lock and double-lock it, to draw each bolt and to fasten the two clanking chains.

  24. Several times the record is dotted with the word "Mission," which would indicate that he frequently followed the apostolic fashion of building strictly on his own foundations.

  25. If the school building is not definitely prescribed, as was the Temple of Solomon, does the Book yield in a deeper sense the wood and stone and mortar by which the building must surely rise?

  26. From the building of the Nazareth cottage on to the building of the "many mansions," there is no consciousness of contradiction.

  27. He saw the men that he helped to make good as a husbandry that he was cultivating for the Lord, as a building that he was fashioning for Christ's sake.

  28. Some of the sporting men even began to hedge in their bets, and might have tried to even up all around, only that they happened to know of a secret upon which they were building great hopes.

  29. As he passed the school building he waved his hand to old Soggy, the janitor and custodian, who was busily engaged with his daily duties.

  30. Bones fell to along side, and between them they speedily formed a regular corduroy road out to where Ralph stood, watching the building with interest.

  31. They reached the high school building in due time.

  32. The girls were wondering who Gib might be when they heard a rumbling beyond the wooden building and saw a very old stage coach drawn by a rather boney old white horse and driven by a tall, lank, red-headed boy.

  33. They had reached the ramshackle building that held the post office and general store when they saw Gib driving the stage around from the barns.

  34. Thus was there negligence in allowing the building to proceed, negligence in allowing the escape from Liverpool, and negligence in allowing the final escape from the British coast.

  35. Then came the building of the pirate ships, one after another.

  36. The enlistment of the crew was not less obnoxious to censure than the building of the ship and her escape.

  37. Had it not been made, no Rebel ship could have been built in England: every step in her building would have been piracy.

  38. Within the building the deep voices of the brethren sounded, chanting,-- "Angelus Domini nuntiavit Maria Et concepit de Spiritu sancto.

  39. Outside the building which, by its shape, though but dimly defined among shadows, was easily recognisable as a huge aerodrome, the tall figure of Giulio Rivardi paced slowly up and down like a sentinel on guard.

  40. Russia was consolidating the advance of two centuries by the building of the trans-Siberian railroad, and was looking eagerly for a port in the sun, to supplement winter-bound Vladivostok.

  41. On the afternoon of the third day Bob Hart rode up to the wildcat well where Dave was building a sump hole with a gang of Mexicans.

  42. Crawford did not know how it had come about, but he had no doubt Steelman had somehow fallen a victim in the trap he had been building for others.

  43. He found Bob Hart, in oilskins and rubber boots, bossing a gang of scrapers, giving directions to a second one building a dam across a draw, and supervising a third group engaged in siphoning crude oil from one sump to another.

  44. In a cloud of dust he swept round the building to the road and waved a hand derisively toward Doble.

  45. The tendejon was a long, flat-roofed adobe building close to the trail.

  46. He had been more than once in charge of a road-building gang of convicts and had found that men naturally turned to him for guidance.

  47. Dave's men finished building a bridge across a gulch late one day.

  48. Hart had come in to see a contractor about building a derrick for a well.

  49. The Indians followed agricultural pursuits and the settlers, who had come to establish themselves on ranches along the border, went out to their plowing and fence building unarmed.

  50. Brady, at the Palace and hastened to the building occupied by the telegraph department of the Signal Corps on Calle Enramadas.

  51. It was so sane and clear-visioned a method to begin with this great beam of the remodeled Cuban house--this building up by the process of individual observation of confidence in those who ruled them!

  52. Simultaneous with this building up went the organization of the customs service, since the province had to be entirely self-supporting.

  53. In fact the work was the making of a new community, the building of a new life--the repairing of the tottering wing of the old, old house.

  54. I have been trying to find your house, Dudley Hamilt, but it's gone, they are building a vairee big house there.

  55. It's my house, Janet MacGregor, only it's dirty because while I was gone building my garden, some dirty filthy heathen came to live here.

  56. Temple Bar is a large office building and Felicia Day had tramped courageously from floor to floor, from office to office, persistently seeking the Portia Person.

  57. I thought I saw them all movin' out--I heard the building was comin' down to make room for lofts.

  58. He had spied her, standing undecided outside the office building and hailed her as he was about to go off his beat.

  59. She said she was no scullery maid and slammed the door in my face and went back to her wet mud--" "Oh, is she building a garden?

  60. She loved it so much that she wouldn't change it when she was building Octavia House over--" "Octavia House!

  61. During the day we were cutting steps in the perpendicular river-bank, out of which a very strong spring gushed about ten feet from the top, and in building a small dairy over it.

  62. My neighbours had also been rewarded for their exertions by an immense maize crop, and employed the late summer in building larger houses for the reception of Lasar and his family.

  63. The summer passed away in hunting, farm-work, building houses, and other business, and during this period I had frequently visited the ponds.

  64. The building is full of banners and wreaths and memorial tablets, including one lately sent by the French troops now fighting on the Italian Front.

  65. Our guns had to be dragged into position up a rough mountain track, which at some points was too narrow and at others too weak to allow the passage of a six-inch howitzer without much preliminary blasting and building up.

  66. It is a work worthy of the descendants of the old Romans, who by their road building laid the foundations of civilisation throughout Western Europe.

  67. In the early stages of the battle all water for the troops had to be brought up by mules, and likewise all food, ammunition and medical supplies, until the Engineers could get to work with road-building on the left bank of the river.

  68. These facts tend to show that if we had a building sufficiently large, we could gather as many persons as the human voice can reach.

  69. In addition to this central hall, interesting work was also being done in Bethnal Green, where there was a building attached to the now rapidly growing mission in Bonner's Lane.

  70. This splendid building will, I am sure, always remind us that we must not despise the day of small things.

  71. In building these houses with the proceeds of the property, the friend asked a neighbour what he should name them, and received the following reply: 'What could be better than to name them after the old twig basket maker, for his folly?

  72. There are many in this hall to-night who, with me, can bless God that ever this building was erected.

  73. The Queen's Hall now building would be ready for opening early next summer.

  74. For a time had come when Mr. Charrington's success had become so enormous, the whole machine so gigantic, that it was necessary to erect a huge building commensurate with the needs of the mission.

  75. From its first building until the present time, the work that has gone on there has never diminished in power for good, the energy of the workers has never flagged.

  76. This being but a short distance from the Oxford Street Hall, and the lease of that building having nearly expired, the work was transferred to the Great Assembly Hall.

  77. A short time ago, however, he had received a letter from that gentleman saying he was desirous of doing something for the Lord; he owned a square on which he proposed building a house with a small hall attached.

  78. There is another very interesting building in the village, though perhaps this can hardly be called picturesque.

  79. Through his efforts the building was purchased, and ever since the work has been carried on with great success.

  80. I do not know who had built it, but it was the most original building in Yalta.

  81. In the same building are three national and one savings bank, besides the town and other offices.

  82. In 1874, by means of a bequest from Phinehas Allen, and the gift of its present building from Thomas Allen, the Berkshire Athenæum was placed upon a firm foundation.

  83. The Unitarians remained in the old Church, and the Orthodox built a new building on the corner of Main and Rollstone streets.

  84. The passage had probably been formed in the period when every large building in Paris was a species of fortress; and we had still a portcullis to pass.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "building" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anatomy; architectural; architecture; arrangement; assemblage; assembly; build; building; buildup; casting; combination; composition; compound; conformation; constitution; construct; construction; consulate; conversion; craftsmanship; creation; cultivation; dacha; deanery; devising; edifice; elaboration; embassy; embodiment; erection; establishment; extraction; fabric; fabrication; farm; fashion; form; format; formation; formulation; frame; growing; hall; handicraft; handiwork; harvesting; house; housing; incorporation; junction; lodge; make; makeup; making; manufacture; milling; mining; mixture; mold; molding; mould; moulder; mouldy; organism; organization; parsonage; pattern; penthouse; physique; pile; plan; preparation; processing; production; pyramid; raising; rectory; roof; setup; shape; skyscraper; smelting; structural; structure; synthesis; texture; tissue; tower; vicarage; weave; web; workmanship


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    building material; building materials; building society; building stone; building their