ERECT in a Sentence
Learn ERECT 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.
177 example sentences for ERECT, such as:
1. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon erect.
2. The event will take place in a specially erected marquee.
3. A monument was erected to the memory of that great scientist.
4. He erected a monument on the spot where his daughter was killed.
5. The alleys were bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs.
2. The event will take place in a specially erected marquee.
3. A monument was erected to the memory of that great scientist.
4. He erected a monument on the spot where his daughter was killed.
5. The alleys were bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ERECT
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erect
v. cause to rise up
a. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
Classic Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
1 All social problems erect their interrogation point around this chopping-knife.
2 , at the age of eighty, held himself erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop.
3 Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, which is waiting to be put away somewhere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
4 Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like a Russian soldier.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
5 Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair.
6 Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing erect against the wall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
7 Behind the door of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
8 He stood erect in the half-open door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which was buttoned up to the chin.
9 In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable squadrons.
10 In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect.
11 Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon erect.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
12 It is the same men, they say; there is no relief corps; those who are erect pillage those who are prone on the earth.
13 A large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach she had not heard.
14 The alleys were bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs.
15 To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind man's self-sufficiency.
Example Sentence:
1 She was slender as a willow - and equally graceful, equally erect.
2 Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible.
3 Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation.
4 Barriers have been erected all along the route the Pope will take.
5 He erected a monument on the spot where his daughter was killed.
6 Opposition demonstrators have erected barricades in roads leading to the parliament building.
7 The event will take place in a specially erected marquee.
8 The new bridge was erected as a temporary measure to replace the one which was destroyed by floods.
9 A monument was erected to the memory of that great scientist.
10 The builders leveled the site and erected a new plant building on it.
11 In answer to my inquiries, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected.
12 They erected a lighthouse on the promontory to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore.
13 Last year Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince pulverised Awamiyah, a rebellious town; Saudi forces shelled its 400-year-old neighbourhoods and erected siege walls to trap some 200 gunmen.
14 A nude statue of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump without testicles was taken down on Thursday after causing quite the stir in New York's Union Square. An anarchist group erected the statue, titled The Emperor Has No Balls.
15 They decided to perpetuate the memory of their leader by erecting a statue.