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
Such castle-building, as an accompaniment to the hard exercise of woodcraft, worked wonders for Tom in the next week, and may be safely recommended to parties in like evil case with him.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
That was the grand era of castle-building in England, when military engineering was practised without reference to ordnance, and had attained to a remarkable ingenuity.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.