"erect a wall" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to build or construct a wall. Example: The construction workers were hired to erect a wall around the perimeter of the building site.
According to a Giants official, Coach Dan Reeves wanted to erect a wall to block that view.
Yet building a protective barrier would erect a wall around him at the same time that he was calling for the wall to be torn down.
It's where, the story goes, local residents once beseeched the city to erect a wall to guard them from a tidal surge.
To halt the spread of the Sahara, eleven African nations have agreed to erect a wall of trees across the dusty shoulders of the continent.
The president has vowed to erect a wall to keep out undocumented immigrants and has ramped up the deportation of those already in the United States.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised to erect a wall along the Mexico border and have Mexico pay for it.
Quebecor's Sun Media division has already erected a wall.
About two years ago, the American military erected a wall along the section of the Amiriya neighborhood that borders the airport road.
Or, as we said in the Everson case, the First Amendment has erected a wall between Church and State which must be kept high and impregnable.
The justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who comes from the Free Democratic Party FDPP), a partner in Mrs Merkel's coalition, accuses the Catholic church of erecting a "wall of silence".
Many defied the de facto curfew, and on the night of August 13th the police erected a wall of armoured cars with snipers on top.
