castle-building

Example Sentences

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Head to the sandy beach for volleyball nets, kite flying, castle-building and beachcombing for “weird rocks” of your own.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2022

But more have been seen in May and June — including ones that captured the crowd’s attention last weekend at an annual sand castle-building contest at Crown Beach in Alameda.

From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2015

But more have been seen in May and June -- including ones that captured the crowd's attention last weekend at an annual sand castle-building contest at Crown Beach in Alameda.

From US News • Jun. 13, 2015

Here is one of the few attempts at castle-building in Canada called Dundurn Castle, the residence of Sir Allan Macnab.

From Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry

Such castle-building, as an accompaniment to the hard exercise of woodcraft, worked wonders for Tom in the next week, and may be safely recommended to parties in like evil case with him.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas