This timber was highly esteemed for constructing bows, arrows, war-clubs, etc.
The accommodations are so restricted, however, that a movement is afoot for constructing another presidential residence, on higher land in the suburbs, so that the White House may be exclusively used for the executive offices.
My means were very limited--so limited as to preclude the possibility of constructing an apparatus of such mechanical finish as to warrant my success in venturing upon its public exhibition.
Yet there are unmistakable signs of a strong tendency towards constructing one, and it is possible that in yielding to it the Brahmans may have been partly prompted by political considerations.
Formerly, inconstructing a large superstructure upon a rubble mound, it was a common practice to build a sea wall and a harbour wall several feet apart, and to fill up the intermediate,.
The knowledge gained therefrom he was now to put to good use in constructing the choruses of his new works.
Counterpoint is to-day the art of constructing two or more melodies which can be sung or played simultaneously without breaking the rules of harmony.
An improvement in the manner of constructing the iron frames of locomotives, by making the pedestals in one piece with, and constituting part of, the frames.
Your letter referring me to General Green, for the mode of constructing light portable boats, unfortunately did not come to hand till he had left us.
Braithwaite, of the Geodetic Survey, was the originator of the plan for constructing a storage reservoir in the upper Boiling Water basin, and for transforming Arcadia Park into an irrigated agricultural district.
In constructing the diagram of displacement we have hitherto assumed that we know the absolute displacements of the points of the system.
In carrying out his scheme he is constructing a serial lexicon on a novel principle.
In addition to all these he paid nearly one-half the cost of constructing the Suez Canal, from which there is scarcely a maritime nation in the world that does not reap greater benefit than Egypt.
These Cistercians were now helpful in constructing a nunnery at Trebnitz near Breslau, which Hedwig founded soon after her marriage.
An artist has a duty to perform in ennobling his work--even though that duty be no more than constructing trousers of marble.
They have exacted the patience of the greatest painters and most talented sculptors for a full century in portraying them, as well as taxed the ingenuity of the noblest tailors in constructing them.
Much rock-cutting was necessary inconstructing this kiva, especially on the northern and southwestern sides.
The gigantic pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus, correspond to reigns of sixty years each; the smaller correspond to short reigns in which kings were not given time for constructing great monuments.
Coming to syntax in its broadest sense, and especially the method of constructing and connecting sentences, Schuecking enumerates several constructions which are found in the Return, but not elsewhere in Beowulf.
The enemy did not harass us much while we were constructing our batteries.
The work of constructing a roadway for the troops was but a short matter, and, later, rails were laid for cars.
He was also rapidly getting out the materials and constructing the boats for a third bridge.
I know it will be impossible withoutconstructing additional roads.
Scarcely were the Turkish boats launched, when a multitude of workmen were busily engaged in constructing floating batteries on the same spot where the Venetians made their last assault in the fifth crusade.
Another confraternity was formed with the useful design of constructingbridges for pilgrims and travellers.
Several pilgrims are named, who, on coming back from Jerusalem, employed their treasures in constructing churches, the form of which might offer them an image of the holy sepulchre they had visited.
This he did by constructing redoubts upon the heights that shut in the space between the Var and the Paillon, two rivers which supported his flanks.
The winter quarters of an army should be protected, likewise, by constructing small covered works on all the lines of approach to the cantonments, and by posting advanced guards of cavalry to observe the motions of the enemy.
Since this course is in reality the foundation of the surface, it is necessary to secure stability by appropriate construction methods, exactly as in constructing water-bound macadam.
By various means, the defects in the materials can be partially corrected while constructing the road.
Erosion in the ditches along a highway can be prevented by constructing weirs across the ditch at frequent intervals, thus effectually preventing an increase in the depth of the ditch.
The art of constructing mathematical instruments, which has been brought in our day to a surprising perfection, regards the ideal as the type of the real order; and progress in the latter is the approximation to the models of the former.
In constructing country houses there are several prime conditions to be observed, such as adaptation, accommodation, and expression.
There is no other mode of constructing gates in which rustic work can be made such good use of.
Let it be considered, that in building our country houses, we are not simply providing for ourselves, but for our children--we are constructing a homestead.
This principle of constructing gates admits of an infinite variety of designs; those given are merely suggestive.
It would, of course, be idle to assert that Poe disposed of all the narrative problems which confronted him while constructing this story precisely in the order I have indicated.
The dramatist, in constructing his story, is hedged in by a multitude of physical restrictions, of which he must make a special study in order to force them to contribute to the presentation of his truth instead of detracting from it.
Although this was true of the academy, it was not true of the individual members who had taken part in constructing the scheme.
He was president of the Royal Astronomical Society when its annual medal was awarded to his French rival for his work in constructing new tables of the sun and planets.
The latter had been approached to know the cost of constructing the desired telescope.
In our island various cherished antiquities have been often most unnecessarily swept away in constructing these race-courses for the daily rush and career of the iron horse.
At no time, perhaps, did timber exist on Inchcolm that could have been used in constructing such a building; whilst plenty of stones fit for the purpose abounded on the island, and there was abundance of lime on the neighbouring shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constructing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
