erector

Example Sentences

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His creations included his own version of the hula hoop and a variation on the Erector Set.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021

This Duke has the enthusiastic but distractible air of a nobleman who has been conditioned to see the world as his personal Erector Set.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2017

Beneath the helium-filled balloon, a 45-foot-long gondola made from a child's Erector set hangs suspended.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2015

Erector muscles, attached between the hair papilla and epidermis, can contract, resulting in the hair fiber pulled upright and consequentially goose bumps.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

There they sat, a big gray Erector set, now looped with yellow police ribbons that said DO NOT CROSS.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor