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How can you use “constructions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

First, a quick thumb-through of the text reveals a neat layout, punctuated here and there by catalogue-or Dunden-type illustrations (as at containers, cooking, coverings , and scores of other entries), vignetted collections of nonlexical information (e.g., PORTUGUESE FALSE FRIENDS, PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS WITH -OUGH, NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES, salutations and closing of business letters, HOMOPHONES AND HOMOGRAPHS, separate items on the marks of punctuation, grammatical constructions, and numerous other miscellaneous matters often confined to grammars, style books, and other works).
I would take issue with the analysis of [ACTIVE ONLY, ACTIVE/PASSIVE,] and [PASSIVE ONLY] constructions, if only because one of the nastiest areas of grammatical analysis of English lies in distinguishing between passives--that is, past participles--and adjectives.
The result is such Cockney-looking constructions as orribile and istorico .
Pepys does not use they and its inflected forms as an indefinite singular pronoun nearly as commonly as we do in such constructions as “Everyone on their feet!”
Inducible pREP vector constructions