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Example sentences for: erect

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He could well afford to erect monuments as elegant as the Tower of Belém and as impressive as the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon.
In the background one can just make out the binoculars of an eager male viewer and the stripe on the trousers of an erect soldier, but all our attention gravitates toward the innocent isolation of these two performers, one of whom has gathered as many oranges, thrown as tokens from the appreciative crowd, as her small arms can hold.
I loved Au Naturel , that bare mattress piece with the melon breasts and erect cucumber.
Some would have big media erect Fifth Columns within their walls, but navel-gazing doesn't automatically impress, as the Times-Mirror flagship Los Angeles Times learned after publishing a 30,000-word self-examination on the Staples Center scandal.
And it shows erect girth from 1.5 to 6.75 inches.