BUILDING in a Sentence

Learn BUILDING 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 BUILDING, such as:

1. The new town hall is a big building.
2. There's good money in empire building.
3. A match will set fire to a large building.
4. No good building without a good foundation.
5. Then the railroad building era really began.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUILDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
building
 n.  a structure with a roof and walls, such as a house, store
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The young man, skirting the side of the building, went down the slope toward the basement door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  He stood on the blackened foundation stones of the burned building, looked down the long avenue of trees leading toward the road and swore lustily, with a joy too deep for thankful prayer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Then the railroad building era really began.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  There's good money in empire building.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  And Mrs. Meade told me she was thinking about building a log cabin when the doctor comes back to help her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Someone had to nurse him and that meant one less worker at the business of fence building, hoeing, weeding and plowing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  Surrounding the building completely and covering the square of land of which it was the center were row after row of army huts, dingy and mud splashed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  She looked down the street toward the firehouse and saw that the wide arched doors were closed and heavily barred and two sentries passed and repassed on each side of the building.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  It was raining when she came out of the building and the sky was a dull putty color.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  He had given up all hope of continuing his medical studies and was now a contractor, working a labor crew of Irishmen who were building the new hotel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  She even talked of building a saloon on the property where her warehouse had been until Sherman burned it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  She had opened a new house of her own, a large two-story building that made neighboring houses in the district look like shabby rabbit warrens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  The demand for building materials was far greater than could be supplied.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  While driving home with Uncle Peter one afternoon, she passed the house into which were crowded the families of three officers who were building their own homes with Scarlett's lumber.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  He had contented himself with putting a flat roof on the remaining first floor which gave the building the squat, disproportionate look of a child's playhouse built of shoe boxes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The new town hall is a big building.
17  The soldiers were building a bridge as a training exercise.
18  This unit removes calcium and magnesium from the water, preventing limescale from building up in the machine and on your tableware.
19  Go straight on until you come to a large white building.
20  It is difficult to assess the building's value properly without seeing it.
21  The new building has little aesthetic value/appeal.
22  Our field of vision is limited by that tall building.
23  How you see the building depends on your angle of vision.
24  He was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall.
25  It's a great weight off my mind to know that the building is finally finished.
26  There was a heap of stones where the building used to be.
27  Knowledge is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
28  A match will set fire to a large building.
29  Within minutes the whole building was blazing.
30  No good building without a good foundation.