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

It is long since I indulged in my old habit of castle-building; and yet now, at every instant, some new notion strikes me, and I fancy some new field for active labour and exertion.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James