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Example sentences for "erections"

Lexicographically close words:
erect; erected; erectile; erecting; erection; erectness; erector; erects; ered; erelong
  1. The boy grows older, and after some years begins to have definite erections when he embraces and kisses his friend; but nothing of the kind occurs when he embraces and kisses his mother.

  2. We know, too, that even in the adult, non-sexual erections may occur.

  3. At this time also when erections had already begun, I still felt definitely attracted by my schoolmaster, and under the influence of this attraction erections occasionally occurred.

  4. In infants, erections may arise from external stimuli or from distension of the bladder, which must be distinguished from the erections which have a definitely sexual causation.

  5. When erections occur in the child, we cannot always trace them to external stimuli, for in many cases they are due to stimuli of other kinds.

  6. Psychically determined erections may likewise occur, although the physical development is by no means far advanced.

  7. Erections occur during childhood; they have been observed even in infancy.

  8. For this reason, erections often occur without leading to ejaculation, whereas in normal conditions ejaculation hardly ever occurs without erection.

  9. Thus, of erections occurring before the reproductive glands ripen, not all are of a sexual nature.

  10. The upper tier of arches will find a parallel in the towers of the abbey of Jumieges, built during the reign of the Conqueror; and most of the other members and decorations are of frequent occurrence in erections of the same æra.

  11. The Spanish erections around Gravelines reacted also upon the state of things in Flanders.

  12. Similar erections were probably employed at a much later period, for the temporary accommodation of the first phalanx of the newly founded monastery.

  13. To this principle of the human mind is clearly traceable the origin of the commemorative erections which abound wherever man has fixed his resting-place.

  14. Though undoubtedly of native workmanship many of these are not improbably contemporary erections thrown up by the native Caledonian to withstand the encroachments of the Roman invader.

  15. Despite his infirmity this patient had perfect sexual desire, and occasional erections and emissions.

  16. Claudius exemplifies this fact in his report of a Venetian merchant who had vigorous erections and ejaculations of thick and abundant semen without either tingling or pleasure.

  17. There is an old record of an aged man who, on marrying, found that he had erections but no ejaculations.

  18. He had never felt desire for sexual intercourse until he became acquainted with his intended wife, since when he had erections and nocturnal emissions.

  19. Bidwell describes a boy of five years and two months who during the year previous had erections and seminal emissions.

  20. The Giant's Organ," with its pipes, suggested by the basaltic erections of various heights, possesses perhaps the greatest sentimental interest.

  21. At any rate, it is one of those curious artificial erections in which the British Isles and Brittany abound, and its actual significance may be great or little.

  22. Its Gothic is of that superlative quality known best in the superb monkish erections of the Continent of Europe.

  23. A young officer of engineers, named Todtleben, conceived the idea of vast erections of earthworks, and the Russians were set to defend the place with pick and mattock more strenuously than by artillery or musketry.

  24. The intention of these monumental erections will appear from some of their inscriptions.

  25. This was the first common burying-ground that we had observed, except a very small one at Tong-tchoo; and the tumuli and the different erections marked out the mansions of the dead.

  26. Like the erections in other parts of the shrubberies it was constructed of wood, the interstices between the framing being filled up with short billets of fir nailed diagonally.

  27. It was one of the earliest domestic erections in York.

  28. The history of another of Mr. Howard's erections on Yonge Street, which we are perambulating, illustrates the rapid advance and expansion of architectural ideas amongst us.

  29. Roundy Farm, now in ruins, takes its name from the pounds which contributed to form the walls of its inclosures, many of which follow the old circular erections that once inclosed a primeval village.

  30. Stonehenge and Avebury were erections of the Bronze Period, and late in it, and of the composite people.

  31. The constant unrelieved erections which took place when I saw my friend adopt a graceful attitude caused pain at the bottom of my back, and I consulted two specialists, who also advised marriage.

  32. Occasionally, I experienced slight erections when close to other women.

  33. I have been told that erections occurred when I was only 2 years old.

  34. It is needless to say that I was continually troubled by the customary sex phenomena: erotic dreams, loss of semen, troublesome erections at night, etc.

  35. It must not be supposed that, in these numerous cases of the early appearance of homosexuality, the manifestations were of a specifically physical character, although erections are noted in a few cases.

  36. The sight or touch of the fetich, the pleasure of pressing it against the heart or the genital organs, are alone capable of producing erections and ejaculations.

  37. The husband's erections were incomplete, and he never had an ejaculation except when asleep.

  38. In the boy erections occur at an early age when the penis is still very small.

  39. We may notice that in such cases erections are only produced mechanically during sleep, which renders coitus impossible.

  40. Men may have normal erections and pollutions, but these may be stopped by counter-suggestions at each attempt at coitus.

  41. In coitus, erections are produced more slowly; the voluptuous sensations, it is true, are of great subjective intensity, but they are developed more slowly and there is more difficulty in producing ejaculation.

  42. Inversely, for physiological reasons, a very erotic and sexually exacting woman cannot obtain satisfaction, man being incapable of commanding erections voluntarily.

  43. I next visited the Pantheon, a noble edifice, with magnificent architectural columns, and cornice: it is reckoned one of the finest erections in Paris.

  44. Several other ornamental erections are placed in these grounds, but to attempt to describe them all would require an actual residence for some weeks.

  45. The hothouses in this garden are placed in several separate ranges, and are very substantially built in comparison to our erections in England.

  46. The erections for the different animals and birds are judiciously placed, and consist of handsome structures, arranged from two to three hundred yards or more apart; these apartments were kept remarkably clean and in good order.

  47. The huge station is one of the most commonplace erections I have ever come across in my long journeys.

  48. There are but few exceptions to the rule that, as to the later erections Iron has been the pioneer of stone or brick.

  49. Boston, though its substantial erections of brick and stone present great obstacles to the progress of the devouring element, frequently displays these unwished-for illuminations, and has some very well organized fire companies.

  50. She was totally unlike an English ship, painted entirely white, without masts, with two small black funnels alongside each other; and several erections one above another for decks, containing multitudes of windows about two feet square.

  51. The wooden houses have altogether disappeared from the principal streets, and have been replaced by substantial erections of brick and stone.

  52. So monumental were these erections that collapsible frames had to be made, so that ladies could pass through doors and get into their sedan-chairs.

  53. These erections occasionally occur in front of a Buddhist temple, when they are built of stone, exactly imitating, however, the wooden originals.

  54. These erections were either detached or cut in the rock, and it is only the rock-cut ones of which remains exist of an earlier date than the commencement of the Christian era.

  55. The date of these erections is frequently very difficult to determine, but the chief authorities generally concur in the opinion that none are found dating earlier than about 250 B.

  56. A few permanent erections dotted the spot, but the majority of visitors patronized canvas alone for resting and feeding under during the time of their sojourn here.

  57. All the erections for amusement on the shore looked a little foolish in that solitude.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.