Definition: 1. The act of constructing or building something. 2. The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings. 3. A thing constructed; a complex construction or entity. 4. A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.
Use 'construction' in a sentence:
1. The local government raised large sums for highway construction.
2. The reservoir is under construction.
3. Men in big construction boots were clumping in and out with plans in their hands.
4. Symphonies 103 and 104 stand as perfect examples of early symphonic construction.
5. During construction, builders were threatened with $7,500 fines for felling trees unnecessarily.
6. The construction industry is no longer as depressed as it was.
7. He ran a construction company as a cover for drug dealing.
8. I have friends who have construction companies.
9. The Russian government had called a halt to the construction of a new project in the Rostov region.
10. He is held in high esteem by colleagues in the construction industry.
11. Construction of condominiums and townhomes is down 29.6 percent.
12. Construction remains a relatively labour-intensive industry.
13. The construction industry was clobbered by recession.
14. Construction site. No admittance.
15. Cracks and leaks are signs of poor construction in a house.
16. The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries.
17. Construction work fell behind schedule.
18. These policies have sent the construction industry into an abrupt nosedive.
19. Quincy wants a job in construction.
20. He put the wrong construction on what he saw.
21. My father raised chickens and ran a construction company.
22. We took construction and moved it into the factory.
23. He said the city had shirked its responsibility by not overseeing construction.
24. Construction had slowed because of a dearth of labourers.
25. The construction firm breached the contract.
26. They don't do construction work at night.
27. No money can be spent on the construction and operation of the tram.
28. When asked why he decided to start a construction company, Zhang replies, "It's not a construction company."
29. The airport is being privately funded by a construction group.
30. Shortage of funding delayed its construction.
31. Receptionist in an attorney's office and a welder at a construction site.
32. "Traditional construction, is chaotic," he says.
33. The chairs were light in construction yet extremely strong.
34. Third is increased construction of homes in wooded areas.
35. Construction on the bridge has really slowed the traffic.
36. The Locomotive Construction Company Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trust.
37. What construction do you put on this letter?
38. The denial was limited to rejecting the construction put on his remarks.
39. An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction.
40. The most important trees were tagged to protect them from being damaged by construction machinery.
41. He'd already started construction on a hunting lodge.
42. Marine construction technology like this is very complex, somewhat analogous to trying to build a bridge under water.
43. The summer house was a simple wooden construction.
44. The fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons.
45. The hotel is still under construction.
46. Jim now works in construction.
47. Work has begun on the construction of the new airport.
48. Many Bangladeshis were employed in the construction or fishing industries.
49. They had to battle through thick mud to reach construction workers.
50. The industry is coeval with the construction of the first railways.
51. The railway is still under construction.
52. Termites do not have an architect's blueprint or a grand construction scheme.
53. Check the actual construction of the chair by looking underneath.
