erect
Example Sentences
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At the Fed, Bowman has moved to slash staff and erect guardrails against what she describes as “abusive” supervisory practices.
That strategy didn’t specifically mention Taiwan but included a more general statement that the U.S. military will “erect a strong denial defense along the First Island Chain.”
Across the street, organisers erected pop-up tents behind temporary barricades, offering the ever-growing media crowd some shelter from the frequent downpours.
From Barron's
A union representative told news agency Reuters that scaffolding had been erected in the affected area.
From BBC
The steel fence that a cosplaying Tolkien fan insists on erecting in Middle of Nowhere, Mont., to block his survivalist neighbors’ horses.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
