erect - use in sentences

Object

  • fence: He said he had been trying to ' erect a stronger fence ' around his private life.
  • memorial: Does anyone have photo of the memorial erected in their memory?
  • marquee: The Sikh temple was a marquee erected in the Pavilion grounds.
  • statue: In post-Revolutionary Russia the godless wished to erect a statue of the betrayer, Judas.
  • scaffolding: A maze of scaffolding erected for the building of the cathedral tower.
  • tent: Some of the women, he says, started to erect tents.

Subject

  • subscription: The Town Hall was erected by public subscription in 1866.
  • parishioner: Died 14 March 1897 This tablet is erected by Parishioners as a token of universal respect and affection for their late Vicar.

Preposition: as

  • memorial: It was erected as a permanent memorial to the use of the various Brighton buildings for the Indian wounded.

Adjective complement

  • adjacent: The New Village Sign was erected adjacent to Fords Green on Sunday June 24, 2000 at a ceremony around midday.

Modifying Another Word

  • lately: Crocketford, A Free Church has been lately erected in the village, which is attended by a large proportion of the People.

Preposition: at

  • northeast: During the famine in the mid-1840s, a 40-bed fever hospital was erected at the northeast of the site.
  • expense: The school accommodation was recently extended, and an excellent schoolmaster's house is being erected at the expense of the Earl of Hopetoun.

Infinitive complement

  • commemorate: The lychgate was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.
  • accommodate: Sleeping galleries were erected to accommodate an additional 130 inmates.

Preposition: in

  • connection: A place of worship has been erected in connection with the Free Church.
  • reign: The following circumstance leads one to conjecture that the present structure was erected in the reign of Richard II.
  • memory: High on a knoll to the right is the tall Celtic Cross which the builder erected in memory of his mother.

Preposition: by

  • subscription: The Town Hall was erected by public subscription in 1866.
  • parishioner: Died 14 March 1897 This tablet is erected by Parishioners as a token of universal respect and affection for their late Vicar.

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