Example sentences for: re-erected

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

  • It, too, was toppled, during the 1871 Commune at the instigation of painter Gustave Courbet, who had to pay the crippling cost of having it re-erected two years later.

  • The obelisk in the piazza’s center, dating from the Egypt of Rameses II (13th century b.c. ), was brought here from the Circus Maximus and re-erected by Pope Sixtus V in 1589.

  • The temple has been painstakingly re-erected using rubble found underneath the battery when it was removed in the 1830s.

  • Forty thousand blocks of stone had to be labeled, moved and re-erected before the transformation was complete so that you can take a short boat ride out to the island, and enjoy views of the approach to the temple, just as the ancients did.

  • Nearby is the oldest of the shrines, the Temple of Hercules, 500 b.c. , whose eight 33-ft-high columns have been re-erected to give some idea of its magnificence.


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