Example sentences for: erection

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

  • This can prevent you from having an erection."

  • An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”

  • The high-minded warning: We should not reduce the marvelous complexity of human sexuality to the ability to sustain an erection.

  • Lesy's text--a filled-in time line that notes such events as the founding of department stores, the rise of banks and financial institutions, and the erection of famous public monuments--creates, in combination with the pictures, a retrospective mood that isn't nostalgia but a finer, more elevated yearning.

  • This settlement originally served as a hermitage for Father Jerome, an Anglican missionary who had converted to Catholicism and become an influential churchman on the Out Islands, responsible for the erection of a number of Catholic Churches.


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