How to Use construct in a Sentence

construct

1 of 2 verb

• They plan to construct a barn behind the house.
• The author constructs all the stories around one theme.
• Construct a triangle that has sides of equal length.
• Over the course of the movie’s 11-week shoot, four large-scale sets had to be constructed from scratch.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• At the end of the project, around 25 artists, who all had ties to North Texas, constructed 53 tiny doors.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The new school, still one-room and still on Cold Springs Road, was constructed for $4,000.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Feb. 2024
• The Gators constructed a sweet scoring move down the field in the final quarter, but by that time, the thing was done.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• A couple of years ago, constructing lab space seemed like a great bet.
  — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• The large crane on the left is the second biggest of its kind in the US was constructed to off load the large equiptment needed to build the wind farm.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Now the rivers are brown because the roads were constructed without mountain ethos and ethics.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Planning and constructing the playground had been more than a year in the making.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
• Every scene is well constructed, and pays off with either a laugh or a jump-scare.
  — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• With the bigger structures, workers can construct 2,000 square feet a day.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2023
• And Raleigh helped construct the metaphor embedded in the name of his new colony: Elizabeth as the Virgin Queen.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• The spikes are pointed on one end and have a head on the other end, and in my opinion, look as though they were constructed by a blacksmith.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The center didn't get a permit from the commission when it was first constructed in 1995.
  — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2023
• They were constructed well and our tester concluded that these would hold up well over time.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• The bright neon straps come in 10 color options and are durably constructed with adjustable lengths.
  — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2024
• It This duvet cover is solidly constructed and smooth to the touch.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2024
• Its skull is constructed of roof-like bones, in contrast to the thin and strut-like bones of modern amphibians.
  — Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
• The seat is constructed of a solid wood frame with webbing and springs to prevent sagging.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• Then, for practical reasons, the first part of the site and building plan that was finalized and constructed was the 170-square-foot boathouse.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• That was a very helpful thing for constructing this story.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• Nine townhouses will be constructed along Broad Street, and 21 of the units will be located inside the church.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• In the early days of Pawhuska, the bridge, constructed in 1926, was the only means by which travelers could cross Bird Creek to get into town.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2024
• Use their prop bet builder to construct Hail Mary wagers with just a few clicks or create same-game parlays that ride on a single lucky pass.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• In the 1950s, an underground garage was constructed, and many of the square’s trees were uprooted and discarded.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The door in the underground shelter will be constructed out of metal and filled in with concrete—a style common in bunkers and bomb shelters.
  — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• Over the past decade, the main goal of the Chinese film industry has been to construct the market, build solid foundations for this market.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Upside plant in the Chicago area will cost more than $140 million to construct, according to spokeswoman Brooke Whitney.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023

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construct

2 of 2 noun

• He argues that time is a subjective construct with no objective existence.
• Here, the consistency and construct of the sandwich stand the test of time.
  — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
• In that construct, the strong performance of the few can obfuscate the mediocrity of the many.
  — Christopher Lynch, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• And white and Black are such a social construct, and that’s where the relief is in Europe.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
• Humans are dying to the constructs and dying to the stigma.
  — Bea Dixon, refinery29.com, 3 May 2023
• So the next book is about race more as an economic construct.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• There’s a really simple construct at the heart of this movie.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Nov. 2021
• In sum, access to housing is not a right, and price is not a social construct.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The cost, however, is a construct of six stages of cost as follows.
  — Alexander Lidow, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• In the Cartesian construct that is France, there’s a place in the garden for any flower that accepts the design.
  — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021
• Even some of his top advisers privately view the construct as too black-and-white in a world of grays.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• At the end of the day, the leap second is just an awkward, artificial construct.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2023
• Politicians are a construct, a reflection of what the public thinks about them.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• Which also makes the whole idea of a national dish a total construct.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2023
• Is grand cru a construct as much as a definition, at this point?
  — Jill Barth, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• What questions can be asked, and what things can be seen, beyond the shadow of an entrenched construct?
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• But the construct here doesn’t allow the cloaking of concepts in character.
  — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• In the meantime, his group has been working on making larger constructs, like an adult male hand.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• Hoffman, who was far to the left of Thiel, countered that property was a social construct.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• While the fate of the U.S. organizing campaigns hangs in the balance, Hoffman points out that so much of the tension comes from a construct: What is a union?
  — Allie Gross, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
• In the end, skin color will be shown to be meaningless for identity, a mere construct.
  — Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
• Native Hawaiians believe that timelines are a very Western construct, and the best thing for you will happen to you at the best time.
  — Annie Daly, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Sep. 2023
• And the timing, as us agents of chaos in the writers room construct, is just perfectly imperfect.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• This is a problem that threatens the entire construct of the family in this country.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2022
• For many in the West, the idea remains that Russia stands as some kind of cohesive, coherent construct.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• No, Jovic would not be a centerpiece for a deal, but certainly could become part of a trade construct.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023
• But there is good news: That treasured carefree summer feeling is, in part, a construct.
  — Wendy Syfret, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2022
• The construct is that the blood comes from our all volunteer military and the treasure is our national deficit.
  — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2022
• That was all fine and good before the age of streaming when all of a sudden airtime was no longer that much of a meaningful construct anymore.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
• Why the construct of the fall season endures despite TV’s vast expansion.
  — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 18 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024