The phrase "construct an image" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about the process of creating a mental representation of something. For example, "By carefully examining the details, he was able to construct an image of what the suspect looked like."
He does make the reader work a little to construct an image of Kennan the person.
"It's an abuse of the resources that television gives you to construct an image.
Margot keeps trying to construct an image of Robert based on incomplete and unreliable information, which is why her interpretation of him can't stay still.
A computer program uses that to construct an image of what the tooth will look like with the crown in place.
Mae West may have commented that "David Niven had charm where other men have only cologne," but it's hard to construct an image of Niven's screen career which accentuates the positive.
We also learn from the film that you can construct an image of contemporary life not just with location shooting but with a kind of cultural collage of movie posters, art reproductions, magazines and books.
We design and construct an image-guided robot system for use in small-animal imaging research.
From such details, I'd constructed an image of impeccable chivalrousness, with a touch of the immigrant's stoic melancholy.
Carefully constructing an image - and mixing Bulgarian Marxist school songs with tales of unfaithful boys - will always be seen as suspiciously intellectual.
He also successfully cowed the media and narrowed the scope for the opposition to put its case, constructing an image of a warrior at home and a man of defiance to the world.
Charlie Winter, a researcher at Quilliam, said propaganda attempting to normalise militants and their daily activities plays an important role in constructing an image of Isis as a way of life as opposed to just a group.
