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Example sentences for "erected"

Lexicographically close words:
ercross; erden; erds; ere; erect; erectile; erecting; erection; erections; erectness
  1. Ephraim Williams, killed at the battle of Lake George in 1755, erected by the graduates of Williams College, which he founded.

  2. The Cadet Chapel=, immediately north of the Administration Building, was erected in 1834.

  3. A monument once marked the spot, erected by the St. Andrews Society of New York City on the ledge of rock where Hamilton fell early in the morning of the eleventh of July, 1804.

  4. He is buried in the old rural cemetery about two miles and a half from the village, and a monument has been erected to his memory.

  5. The tall shaft visible from steamer, erected by the Delavan family, is near his grave.

  6. Guarding the approach from the south, stockades and fortifications were erected on commanding positions, and regularly manned by detachments from the camp.

  7. Beyond this a tall granite shaft, erected by the Delavan family, is generally quite distinctly seen, and this is near the grave of Irving.

  8. The West Indian Company erected a fort in 1623 near the present landing of the Day Line.

  9. The grounds are beautiful and graced by noble buildings which have been erected year by year to meet the continued demands of its patrons.

  10. The fine cenotaph of Italian marble was erected in 1885.

  11. It is in St Peter's, at Rome, and was erected in 1792.

  12. Up to the present time," says the Europe of Frankfort, "no monument that we are aware of had ever been erected to the memory of a pig.

  13. On our return to a newly erected section of the kampong we met the intelligent kapala and a few men.

  14. A floor similarly constructed, but raised some twenty-five centimetres higher, covered about all the remaining space, and serves as temporary habitations for the people, many small stalls having been erected for the purpose.

  15. There is no remedy and the owner must move elsewhere; the house is demolished, the wooden material carried away and erected in another kampong.

  16. It took place in front of the house where the kapala resided, and here a sacred pillar stood, by the Katingans and others called kapatong, erected on the occasion of a death.

  17. Kasungan Staffs, called pantars, erected in memoriam of the dead, at a kampong below Kuala Samba A wealthy Katingan, at Kasungan A loving pair guarding the dead.

  18. Early in the afternoon we arrived at the kubo, a desirable shelter that had been erected at the head of the first great kiham, but its limited accommodations were taxed to overflowing by our arrival.

  19. Many "bring" were erected over the stream, and I noticed that they were smaller than those I had seen before, but the arrangements for beating the tuba were far more elaborate.

  20. A simple house is then erected for occupancy while doing the necessary work incident to the raising of crops.

  21. He had spent ten days there, the Dayaks having erected a house for him to stay in.

  22. About this reed more and more earth was gradually deposited, and, on the day on which Jeroboam erected the golden calves, a little hut was built upon the island.

  23. The work was completed so expeditiously that one living at the time the Temple was erected by Solomon was permitted to see the new structure shortly before his death.

  24. To prevent the undesirable union, Solomon had a high tower erected in the sea, and to this he sent his daughter.

  25. Out of revenge therefor, he has erected a cross for him.

  26. In the sea he erected four iron pillars, on which he build up seven heavens, each five hundred ells larger than the one below.

  27. It is overarched by a beautiful mausoleum erected by King Jeconiah after Evil-merodach had released him from captivity.

  28. His followers laid the knives he had used in circumcising the Israelites (55) into his grave, and over it they erected a pillar as a memorial of the great wonder of the sun's standing still over Ajalon.

  29. Jair erected an altar unto Baal, and on penalty of death he forced the people to prostrate themselves before it.

  30. In the heavenly court-room a throne of fire of gigantic dimensions is erected for him directly opposite to the throne of God.

  31. The cross which Haman, at the advice of his wife Zeresh and of his friends, had erected for Mordecai, was now used for himself.

  32. And when the meetinghouses were finished, the settlers erected as their next public buildings the schoolhouses, where the children might learn to read the Scriptures so that they could "foil the ould deluder, Satan.

  33. An ambitious central building was erected in 1846, and by an irony of fate the uninsured "phalanstery" was burned down at the very moment when its completion was being celebrated.

  34. This was erected with funds provided by the American Missionary Association, and is a beautiful and convenient structure.

  35. The first building erected on this lot was Allen Hall.

  36. Porter Chapel, erected for outside missionary work in a needy part of the city, has had a checkered but useful experience.

  37. The large and handsome building which it now occupies was erected by the American Missionary Association through the Freedmen's Bureau.

  38. Constantine erected there the circus, statues of triumphal heroes, and tripods from Delphi.

  39. Charing Cross, erected upon the site now occupied by the statue of Charles I.

  40. This was the time of year when the regiment ordered into a shorter or longer term of renewed active service its reserve men, who were then temporarily quartered in the sheds and loosely constructed pavilions erected behind the barracks proper.

  41. Everybody then began to see, detail after detail, the whole system of fraud erected by Borgert, with the passive connivance of his friend Leimann.

  42. To celebrate his birth, a grand tournament was held in London, and a tower was erected and filled with seats, so that the queen and all her ladies might see it.

  43. Chapel, and a tomb of black marble was erected to her memory.

  44. They erected their theories, like umbrellas, over their heads, and experience pattered harmlessly on the top.

  45. There is a new hospital, and very good public washing sheds have been erected for the town at the hot springs about a mile distant.

  46. This really extraordinary place is the achievement of one man's enterprise, and was erected on the ruins of an inconvenient old building in less than five months, at a round cost of five-and- twenty thousand pounds.

  47. It was not until then that I noticed he had been working by a grass-grown milestone, which looked like a tombstone erected over the grave of the London road.

  48. In Greece shrines were erected by various cities to their supposed founders, and where, as in Athens, the tribes had their eponyms, these received divine worship, though they never attained equal rank with the gods proper.

  49. There should be buildings erected for the schools and chapels at different points.

  50. The school building and a "Home" for the workers, made necessary by the needs of the work and the adverse feeling toward teachers of colored schools, were erected and the school was opened in October, 1871.

  51. The spot and hour in which Maximilian was shot, with the chapel since erected by Austria.

  52. Some precautions against the first defect have already been suggested, and if the snuggery is erected where it will be shaded by trees during the hotter part of the day, this disadvantage will be somewhat overcome.

  53. When the two sides are so far completed, they may be erected in position and fixed with temporary battens, at a distance apart of 7 ft.

  54. Having erected the framework in position, next sink and well ram the shores deep into the ground, and splay and nail the top ends to the uprights.

  55. Its low cost, the ease with which it is fixed, and the few timbers required to carry it, make an iron roof very suitable for a building erected by an amateur workman.

  56. But many of the houses stood empty, the inhabitants having fled into the fields, and there erected huts of branches of trees, to escape the plague.

  57. We only passed a horde of Bedouins, who had erected their sooty-black tents in the dry bed of a river.

  58. Two clocks are erected on this building; one with our dial, one with the Italian.

  59. The emperor caused this large round building to be erected for his future mausoleum.

  60. From this place Caligula had a bridge erected to Baiae, about 4000 paces in length.

  61. In some places wooden booths were erected along each side of the street for the sale of the commonest necessaries of life and articles of food, and these places were dignified by the name of "bazaars.

  62. In this passage another altar has been erected to the memory of the innocents slaughtered and buried here.

  63. A plain wooden altar has been erected there, a few years since, by a Bavarian prince, and the entrance is closed by an iron gate.

  64. Of the temple, and the buildings which Solomon caused to be erected for his wives, but few fragments of walls remain.

  65. On the left of the road, an old church, said to have been erected in the days of Samuel, stands upon a hill.

  66. I also rode to the Vomero, on which are erected the king's pleasure-palace and a small convent.

  67. Only twelve years ago a little chapel, of very humble appearance, was erected here; it now stands in the midst of old walls; but here again a footprint of our Lord is shown and reverenced.

  68. The church of the convent is erected on the spot where the house of Zacharias once stood, and a chapel commemorates the place where St. John first beheld the light.

  69. An altar is erected opposite, on the place where the manger stood in which the shepherds found our Lord.

  70. At Thebes, besides adding to the buildings of his predecessors, he erected a new palace, which, like that at Abydos, was by the Greeks called the Memnonium.

  71. A few friends of the poet Motherwell, of Glasgow, have just erected a beautiful monument to him in that city.

  72. Peel, expressed to himself, was, that it was a monument which ought to be brought to London and erected as a memorial of Sir Ralph Abercromby and others who had fought and died in Egypt.

  73. Within the circuit of this ditch he erected eight large forts and connected them with a long and thick earthen parapet strengthened with bastions.

  74. He encamped the bulk of his army at the village of Nordheim, a short distance in the rear, and erected three powerful batteries mounting seventy-two guns.

  75. In front of the other face is a steep green eminence which the Poles had very strongly entrenched, and had erected upon it ten batteries of heavy cannon.

  76. A new and handsome mansion was erected at a short distance from the old castle, and here Malcolm Graheme lived quietly for very many years with his beautiful wife, and saw a numerous progeny rise around them.

  77. As soon as they had gained the ascent, and had sacrificed and erected a trophy, they went down into the plain before them, and arrived at a number of villages stored with abundance of excellent provisions.

  78. Germanicus erected a trophy in the field, with a vaunting inscription that the nations between the Rhine and the Elbe had been thoroughly conquered by his army.

  79. Footnote 84: In the Museum of Rhenish Antiquities at Bonn there is a Roman sepulchral monument the inscription on which records that it was erected to the memory of M.

  80. The men of Sicyon alone ventured to meet him at Nemea, and them he overthrew in a pitched battle, and erected a trophy.

  81. Upon a staff there erected hung ribbons distinctive of the ship and serving at the same time to show the direction of the wind.

  82. The Floridians, we also know, erected at the same period mounds to mark the resting-places of their defunct chieftains.

  83. During the night a lofty scaffold had been erected on the bridge of Sant' Angelo, and the plank and block were placed thereon.

  84. Our guides told us, that this mount had been erected by order of their chief; and that they, sometimes, meet there to drink/kava.

  85. He was then carried out of the boat by some of his own people, upon a board resembling a hand-barrow, and went and seated himself in a small house near the shore, which seemed to have been erected there for his accommodation.

  86. The Cross Hill, so called on account of a cross, or flag-staff erected upon it, bore by compass S.

  87. I have seen above twenty of them erected on a spot of ground, that, not an hour before, was covered with shrubs and plants.

  88. Such monuments, it should seem, are seldom raised; for these had, probably, been erected several ages ago.

  89. For this purpose, by permission, we erected a tent on shore, to which we sent our casks and sails to be repaired.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erected" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.