erecting

Example Sentences

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After erecting a monument, the Obama foundation now seeks to lower expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The construction site is erecting a shiny new mall while modern buildings and related respiratory illnesses are spiking up across the city.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Established by Congress over a century ago, the commission would have reviewed plans for the elaborate ballroom Trump is erecting at the White House, as well as another project — his proposed triumphal arch.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2025

This is why the erecting of a wooden fence on a stretch of beach earlier this year, has caused passions to run high.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Lawrence exploited to the limit the free labor of graduate students, an important key to low-cost operation of the enormous piece of capital equipment he was erecting.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik