BUILT in a Sentence

Learn BUILT 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.

272 example sentences for BUILT, such as:

1. The palace was built in the fifteenth century.
2. The company has built up a loyal customer base.
3. We have built the walls far too thick for that.
4. They built the church on the edge of the village.
5. They pulled down my old house and built five new ones.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUILT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
built
 a.  having a good figure
 v.  (past tense) establish, increase
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1  On the farm thus acquired John Ferrier built himself a substantial log-house, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it grew into a roomy villa.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  Stone would have to be carried and built up into walls, then the sails would have to be made and after that there would be need for dynamos and cables.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
3  On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
5  We have built the walls far too thick for that.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
6  It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
7  It was a pity that the man who had built Pointz Hall had pitched the house in a hollow, when beyond the flower garden and the vegetables there was this stretch of high ground.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  Nature had provided a site for a house; man had built his house in a hollow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  It was as old as the church, and built of the same stone, but it had no steeple.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
10  For by some lucky chance a wall had been built continuing the house, it might be with the intention of adding another wing, on the raised ground in the sun.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
11  No house had been built; no town had sprung up.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
12  My brother says, they built the house north for shelter, not south for sun.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
13  An anecdote was on the tip of her tongue, about a public lavatory built to celebrate the same occasion, and how the Mayor.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
14  The hall, when they entered it, was brightly lighted up; the fire was built high; and about the hearth the whole of the servants, men and women, stood huddled together like a flock of sheep.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
15  He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
16  Drop by drop the oceans are filled; stone by stone the walls are built.
17  The palace was built in the fifteenth century.
18  When built, the palace and its grounds were more extensive than the city itself.
19  Local antiques will be put on show in a new building especially built for the collection.
20  The wooden boat was built to withstand just about every weather condition at sea.
21  Houses in this part of the country are built of flint.
22  The company has built up a loyal customer base.
23  The design of the new house is similar to those that have already been built.
24  The other houses are built to a more conventional design.
25  They built their own dream house overlooking the river.
26  The country's strong economy was built on its mineral wealth.
27  A lot of new homes are being built on the edge of town.
28  They built the church on the edge of the village.
29  A new power station is being built much to the consternation of environmental groups.
30  They pulled down my old house and built five new ones.