How to Use erect in a Sentence

erect

verb

• They erected a marker over the grave.
• The city erected a statue in his honor.
• Others erected makeshift tents or simply lay at the edge of the street.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2024
• The 110-year-old white adobe and stucco house of worship is the heart of Guadalupe and was erected by the Pascua Yaquis.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
• But by the time the rubber plant was erected, the worst of the pandemic and glove shortages had passed.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• In the nave of the Roman parish church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, a plaque was erected in 2010.
  — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2023
• This sign and mural were erected in honor of that pledge.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• The new Kids Space is built on the site of the original that volunteers erected 28 years ago.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• Many of these people are now sleeping in tents hastily erected on the rocky ground.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• No doubt, before long the Twins will have a bronze statue of Mauer erected at Target Field.
  — Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• An electrified fence was erected around the reserve boundary to keep the wildlife in and poachers and hunters out.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• By evening, the police and soldiers had erected spotlights and were digging by hand in Hroza.
  — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The goal is to set a new standard of openness from your end and to get in the practice of erecting boundaries with them moving forward.
  — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
• Ages ago, their Greek owners even erected tombs in their honor.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
• The current building was erected in 1873 with stones from the original building used in the building’s base.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Much of the molten rock was diverted by a defensive wall that had been erected in the wake of the December eruption.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• And the Gorn have erected a device that prevents the Enterprise from beaming anyone off of the surface.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
• Many were erected during Stalin’s purges, in 1937, to mark the hundredth anniversary of Pushkin’s death.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• The gallows erected in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 remains an enduring mystery of that day.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
• To prevent balls from flying into the water, a temporary three-sided net wall is erected around the edge of the court.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
• Lawmakers and regulators have spent years erecting laws and rules meant to limit the power and size of the largest U.S. banks.
  — Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• The school has erected a plaque and an exhibit chronicling the 1960s seizure of the community.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2023
• An inch-thick bulletproof sign was erected at the site in October 2019.
  — Aaron Morrison, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
• The town in Los Alamos was erected to stealthily develop and test the Manhattan Project, a.k.a.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 10 Aug. 2023
• Many of the quake survivors will cast votes in containers turned into makeshift polling stations erected on school yards.
  — Suzan Fraser and Zeynep Bilginsoy, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
• Many of those new houses were erected on marginal land.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Another castle on the site was erected in 1066 by William the Conqueror, who captured the city after the Battle of Hastings.
  — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• One night in April 1936, the bridge connecting Rawsonville’s two counties collapsed, the steel bridge erected in its place is still in use today.
  — Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• My sister erected a makeshift nesting box by turning a large pot on its side and padding it with wood shavings.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• But for now, governments have pushed forward to erect barriers against this.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024