Sentence examples for erect to a from inspiring English sources

As the season progresses, the leader gradually increases in rigidity and, under the influence of compression wood formation, becomes erect to a vertical position.

Larger trees that do not respond favourably to heavy annual pruning are trained best to a system that encourages the main leader branch to grow erect to a height of eight to 10 feet (2.4 3.0 metres), with four or five main lateral branches at intervals on its sides forming the scaffold that carries fruiting wood up and out; this is called a modified leader system.

"Jean Sibelius's observation — 'No statue has ever been erected to a critic' — seems to be cited somewhere weekly.

Jean Sibelius's observation — "No statue has ever been erected to a critic" — seems to be cited somewhere weekly.

I don't know about you-all, but I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Songs were written about Franklin and statues erected to an explorer who remained a Victorian hero despite the loss.

Thalli were erect to prostrate, forming a loose tufted aggregation from the discoid holdfast (Figure 4A & B).

St. Thomas Hall, funded by a private donor, was erected to house a library and physical sciences facilities in 1975.

Fortification, in military science, any work erected to strengthen a position against attack.

Before any of the damage occurs, walls are erected to partition a neighbourhood.

Before any of the damage occurs, walls are erected to partition a neighborhood.