How to Use construct in a Sentence
- They plan to construct a barn behind the house.
- The author constructs all the stories around one theme.
- Construct a triangle that has sides of equal length.
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Over the course of the movie’s 11-week shoot, four large-scale sets had to be constructed from scratch.
— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023 -
At the end of the project, around 25 artists, who all had ties to North Texas, constructed 53 tiny doors.
— Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The new school, still one-room and still on Cold Springs Road, was constructed for $4,000.
— Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Feb. 2024 -
The Gators constructed a sweet scoring move down the field in the final quarter, but by that time, the thing was done.
— Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023 -
A couple of years ago, constructing lab space seemed like a great bet.
— Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023 -
The large crane on the left is the second biggest of its kind in the US was constructed to off load the large equiptment needed to build the wind farm.
— Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023 -
Now the rivers are brown because the roads were constructed without mountain ethos and ethics.
— Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 14 July 2023 -
Planning and constructing the playground had been more than a year in the making.
— Beth Mlady, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Every scene is well constructed, and pays off with either a laugh or a jump-scare.
— Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 -
With the bigger structures, workers can construct 2,000 square feet a day.
— Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2023 -
And Raleigh helped construct the metaphor embedded in the name of his new colony: Elizabeth as the Virgin Queen.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023 -
The spikes are pointed on one end and have a head on the other end, and in my opinion, look as though they were constructed by a blacksmith.
— David K. Li, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023 -
The center didn't get a permit from the commission when it was first constructed in 1995.
— Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2023 -
They were constructed well and our tester concluded that these would hold up well over time.
— Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023 -
The bright neon straps come in 10 color options and are durably constructed with adjustable lengths.
— Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2024 -
It This duvet cover is solidly constructed and smooth to the touch.
— Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2024 -
Its skull is constructed of roof-like bones, in contrast to the thin and strut-like bones of modern amphibians.
— Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024 -
The seat is constructed of a solid wood frame with webbing and springs to prevent sagging.
— Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023 -
Then, for practical reasons, the first part of the site and building plan that was finalized and constructed was the 170-square-foot boathouse.
— Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023 -
That was a very helpful thing for constructing this story.
— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023 -
Nine townhouses will be constructed along Broad Street, and 21 of the units will be located inside the church.
— Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023 -
In the early days of Pawhuska, the bridge, constructed in 1926, was the only means by which travelers could cross Bird Creek to get into town.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2024 -
Use their prop bet builder to construct Hail Mary wagers with just a few clicks or create same-game parlays that ride on a single lucky pass.
— Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024 -
In the 1950s, an underground garage was constructed, and many of the square’s trees were uprooted and discarded.
— Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The door in the underground shelter will be constructed out of metal and filled in with concrete—a style common in bunkers and bomb shelters.
— Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023 -
But this is the only way to construct an infinite integer distance set in the plane, as Anning and Erdős realized in 1945.
— Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024 -
For launch, Goldcrest is also constructing an ADR room and offices for needs such as dailies, editing and visual effects.
— Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
- He argues that time is a subjective construct with no objective existence.
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Here, the consistency and construct of the sandwich stand the test of time.
— Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023 -
In that construct, the strong performance of the few can obfuscate the mediocrity of the many.
— Christopher Lynch, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023 -
And white and Black are such a social construct, and that’s where the relief is in Europe.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022 -
Humans are dying to the constructs and dying to the stigma.
— Bea Dixon, refinery29.com, 3 May 2023 -
So the next book is about race more as an economic construct.
— Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023 -
There’s a really simple construct at the heart of this movie.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Nov. 2021 -
In sum, access to housing is not a right, and price is not a social construct.
— Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 June 2022 -
The cost, however, is a construct of six stages of cost as follows.
— Alexander Lidow, Forbes, 30 June 2022 -
In the Cartesian construct that is France, there’s a place in the garden for any flower that accepts the design.
— Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021 -
Even some of his top advisers privately view the construct as too black-and-white in a world of grays.
— BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023 -
At the end of the day, the leap second is just an awkward, artificial construct.
— Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2023 -
Politicians are a construct, a reflection of what the public thinks about them.
— Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021 -
Which also makes the whole idea of a national dish a total construct.
— Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2023 -
Is grand cru a construct as much as a definition, at this point?
— Jill Barth, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021 -
What questions can be asked, and what things can be seen, beyond the shadow of an entrenched construct?
— New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022 -
But the construct here doesn’t allow the cloaking of concepts in character.
— Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022 -
In the meantime, his group has been working on making larger constructs, like an adult male hand.
— Max G. Levy, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Hoffman, who was far to the left of Thiel, countered that property was a social construct.
— Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021 -
While the fate of the U.S. organizing campaigns hangs in the balance, Hoffman points out that so much of the tension comes from a construct: What is a union?
— Allie Gross, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022 -
In the end, skin color will be shown to be meaningless for identity, a mere construct.
— Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022 -
Native Hawaiians believe that timelines are a very Western construct, and the best thing for you will happen to you at the best time.
— Annie Daly, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Sep. 2023 -
And the timing, as us agents of chaos in the writers room construct, is just perfectly imperfect.
— Selome Hailu, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022 -
This is a problem that threatens the entire construct of the family in this country.
— Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2022 -
For many in the West, the idea remains that Russia stands as some kind of cohesive, coherent construct.
— Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022 -
No, Jovic would not be a centerpiece for a deal, but certainly could become part of a trade construct.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023 -
But there is good news: That treasured carefree summer feeling is, in part, a construct.
— Wendy Syfret, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2022 -
The construct is that the blood comes from our all volunteer military and the treasure is our national deficit.
— CBS News, 7 Sep. 2022 -
The construct is that of a tomato sandwich: flimsy white bread, Duke's mayo, sliced banana—lightning quick and delightful.
— Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2024 -
The old ways of doctor-patient relationships will gradually give way to the new construct of doctor-AI-patient relationships.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
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