BUILD in a Sentence

Learn BUILD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for BUILD, such as:

1. He planned to build on a shed.
2. Man wanted to tear down, not build up.
3. He gathered some wood to build a fire.
4. There are no plans to build new offices.
5. She had sold him lumber to build his house.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUILD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
build
 v.  make or construct something by putting parts or material together
 n.  shape and size of the human body
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  There were young ex-soldiers who lacked the courage to face the long years necessary to build up fortunes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  But we will build back, because we have hearts like yours to build upon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  The apathy which had clutched them immediately after the war had completely disappeared and they were too busy building their own fortunes to help her build hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  You'll want me to bank you, at some incredibly low interest, so you can buy more mills and more mules and build more saloons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
6  She had sold him lumber to build his house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  And while we are on the subject of real estate, Scarlett," he said, "I am going to build a house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  I hear Mrs. Trenor wants to build out a new ball-room, and that divergence from Gus on that point keeps her at Bellomont.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  The poor little working-girl who had found strength to gather up the fragments of her life, and build herself a shelter with them, seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of existence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
11  Man wanted to tear down, not build up.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Well, you'll have plenty of privacy when we build a new house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  It was a humble wife who followed the busy doctor out to the carriage, and her ambition was not to play Rachmaninoff better, nor to build town halls, but to chuckle at babies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Perhaps some day the farmers will build and own their market-towns.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  She wanted to go on talking, to get this threshed out, to build a sane friendship.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
17  Plans to build a new nightclub in the neighbourhood have enraged local residents.
18  A local developer is planning to build a supermarket on the site.
19  The city is planning to build a municipal library.
20  She has the build and strength of a natural athlete.
21  There are no plans to build new offices.
22  The club has unveiled plans to build a new stadium.
23  To build this tunnel we had to cut through the solid rock.
24  She has always been encouraged to swim to build up the strength of her muscles.
25  He had received the commission to build a new bridge over the river.
26  He gathered some wood to build a fire.
27  In May the females build a nest and lay their eggs.
28  Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
29  If they throw stones at you, don't throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
30  He planned to build on a shed.