Build

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"Build" in a Sentence (24 examples)

You must build up your courage.

It is foolish of you to build a castle in the air while forgetting to drive in pilings for its foundation.

The appropriation is pin-money; it wouldn't be enough even to build a gym, much less build the administration building.

We opposed his plan to build a new road.

We were contracted to build a railway.

We build and maintain relationships with others.

Our policy is to build for the future, not the past.

It took them two years to build the house.

Our company is planning to build a new chemical plant in Russia.

To begin with, you must build up your body.

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It was a bridge ybuilt in goodly wize, / With curious Corbes and pendants grauen faire, [...]

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you [...] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

This code won’t build any more. Have you made any changes?

Rugby players are of sturdy build.

According to the prevailing adolescent criteria Roger was not good looking. He had no build and did not give off very assertive, let alone aggressive vibrations.

One of the most general underwriting factors is the build of the applicant. All the insurers include build as an underwriting factor although only 18 of the 22 submitted the actual build tables. Table 9-1 shows a typical build table, which categorizes according to height, weight, and sex. The table lists average weights for each height, various ranges of weights, and the numerical rating debits or credits at the bottom of each chart column.

The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.

This new Lego set was a very nice build.

I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.

I made a build centered around attack speed.

In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists.

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