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.
• At least not in how it was constructed.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
• None of us would ever have been able to construct the list alone.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 28 May 2026
• Berms will be constructed to block out noise and light.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
• Barcelona often construct moves like this.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 May 2026
• What is there to even look forward to if this team comes back as constructed?
  — Scott Powers, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• A couple of years ago, constructing lab space seemed like a great bet.
  — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• Let’s look at the roster and how it was constructed.
  — Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• Each section would take eight to 12 years to construct.
  — National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
• Haiti’s first was well constructed.
  — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• This roster doesn’t make any sense as constructed.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• Meyer hopes to have the first set of homes constructed by spring or summer.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
• What’s hard is finding a rising star to construct a season like this.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026
• Every scene is well constructed, and pays off with either a laugh or a jump-scare.
  — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• They were constructed well and our tester concluded that these would hold up well over time.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2022
• As presently constructed, the Kings are a guard-heavy group.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• And, instead of wood, the homes are constructed from fiber cement board.
  — Abigail Stone, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
• 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
• The first step was finding a flat area in the front yard that would allow them to both construct the igloo and freeze the blocks.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
• Its charms are plainer, though no less finely constructed.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
• The store cost more than $7 million in public funds and tax credits to construct.
  — Sofi Zeman april 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2026
• The store cost more than $7 million in public funds and tax credits to construct.
  — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
• Over the past few years, the Eagles have constructed a play that very few teams have been able to stop.
  — Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• The project marks a decisive shift in how the emirate plans to construct future homes.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
• With the way the roster has been constructed, there are no quick fixes or easy answers.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
• Planning and constructing the playground had been more than a year in the making.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
• That film was undeniable in the themes and the way it was constructed.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2026
• And the fewer of them there are, the more expensive each will be to construct and sustain.
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026

construct

2 of 2 noun

• He argues that time is a subjective construct with no objective existence.
• So the next book is about race more as an economic construct.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• There’s a structure and a construct, and an idea, and then it can be tested and played with.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
• Is grand cru a construct as much as a definition, at this point?
  — Jill Barth, Forbes, 27 Sep. 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
• There’s a really simple construct at the heart of this movie.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Nov. 2021
• What else is a cultural construct?
  — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 11 June 2026
• Which also makes the whole idea of a national dish a total construct.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2023
• But time is a construct after all, and Higgo made sure to remind us of that.
  — Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
• Here, the consistency and construct of the sandwich stand the test of time.
  — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
• Politicians are a construct, a reflection of what the public thinks about them.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• In the meantime, his group has been working on making larger constructs, like an adult male hand.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• 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
• What questions can be asked, and what things can be seen, beyond the shadow of an entrenched construct?
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• And so these are constructs which will evolve dynamically through that.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 May 2026
• In the end, skin color will be shown to be meaningless for identity, a mere construct.
  — Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
• At the end of the day, the leap second is just an awkward, artificial construct.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2023
• The construct for this particular Cubs team is that every day should feel the same.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• In that construct, the strong performance of the few can obfuscate the mediocrity of the many.
  — Christopher Lynch, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Many films have managed to convert their audience to a unique story construct.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025
• And white and Black are such a social construct, and that’s where the relief is in Europe.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
• But the construct here doesn’t allow the cloaking of concepts in character.
  — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• This is a problem that threatens the entire construct of the family in this country.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2022
• Enhanced is attempting to obliterate both of those constructs at once.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
• One is understanding that the idea of home is usually just a mental construct.
  — Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
• And the timing, as us agents of chaos in the writers room construct, is just perfectly imperfect.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• Hoffman, who was far to the left of Thiel, countered that property was a social construct.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• 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
• These gendered constructs appear across cultures.
  — Melinda Laituri, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026