How to Use building in a Sentence

building

noun
  • We bought the land for building.
  • My office is in that small brick building.
  • Fans used bounce and cheer with such force that the whole building shook.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The baseball field was destroyed and some of the buildings were depleted.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Six other people were injured in the blaze that destroyed the two-story building.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Drones were flying about the building, buzzing like robotic hummingbirds.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In the months that followed the Marshall Fire, there were again calls to consider a statewide building code.
    Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The impacts on Block 67 also will be offset by the building’s design.
    Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • They were all safely evacuated, but the damage to the buildings was nearly total.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The carousel included sweet snaps of the model giving the tot a piggyback ride through the building and showing him the paintings.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Dec. 2022
  • More than a thousand homes, businesses and other buildings have burned and at least two people are dead in the destructive firestorms, as of Wednesday morning.
    David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The couple walked away and Edmond left the building, not realizing another fan nearby had captured the last moments.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Dec. 2022
  • At least one of the buildings was soon to be demolished altogether, its red-brick walls dumped into its 1921 foundation.
    Jon Marcus, NPR, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Trump’s inaction as his loyalists were violently storming the building.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The designers noted that the tall new building is going into a seismically active part of the municipality.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Baseball and football fields were damaged, and officials could not immediately confirm the conditions of other buildings.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The report also details Trump's inaction as his loyalists were violently storming the building.
    Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The restaurant takes up about 7,000 square feet of the building.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2024
  • Her building, on the east end, was unscathed by the fire last week.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2024
  • The student body is small, so adults in the building know every child’s name.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The sky darkened, and strobes of light coated the court building in purple.
    Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Nevels pleads not guilty to homicide The first shot was intended to hit the man, but missed and struck the wall of a building.
    Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Experts say to get on the lowest floor and in the center of the building, away from windows.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 16 Feb. 2023
  • For kids ages 8 and up, pick up this Lego building set that’s inspired by Minecraft.
    Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The missile hit just above the joint where the building began to curve away from the embankment.
    Michael Schwirtz, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Thus, the use of an urban building landscape in the ad campaign.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The monks and settlers cut native stone and timber to construct the first building on site.
    Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
  • One of the victims shot at the Union building also died, police said.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Lewis and McLaughlin have been known to sneak athletes into the building through the back door to avoid the public eye.
    The Indianapolis Star, 21 Jan. 2023
  • White noise is pumped in through speakers, throughout the building.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2023

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