[ US /ˈbɪɫdɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bˈɪldɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
    their main business is home construction
    workers in the building trades
  2. the act of constructing something
    his hobby was the building of boats
    during the construction we had to take a detour
  3. the occupants of a building
    the entire building complained about the noise
  4. a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
    it was an imposing edifice
    there was a three-story building on the corner
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How To Use building In A Sentence

  • The buildings are usually gabled, with rows of tiles along the ridges of the roofs.
  • The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
  • Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
  • The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
  • Buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat from the sun to save on heating costs.
  • I'm looking forward to the Gehry building, though, even though it's been watered down a bit from its original design.
  • Due to the bad weather, the building work was already behind schedule.
  • The tranquility of Birch's daytime views hardly characterized the disputative climate surrounding the building, then and later.
  • The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
  • There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
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