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Example sentences for: erect

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Among the conclusions: A national apology for slavery would be hollow and facile, but America should erect a slavery memorial on the Mall.
Foster might have attended to the poems and shown how willfully they use place-names (and in the later verse, Yeats' famous friends' names) to erect the mansion of Irish literature.
The South China Morning Post of Hong Kong warned Wednesday that China is already trying to erect "roadblocks" to slow the influx of goods, services, and ideas after it joins the World Trade Organization.
He entered into a partnership with Almy and Brown to erect “perpetual card and spinning” machines, otherwise known as the Arkwright patents.
Concurrently, the use of an arboreal habitat and the adoption of an erect posture moved the nose away from the ground, with its rich varieties of odors.