Sentence examples for erected overnight from inspiring English sources

He takes us to see a concrete compound at the back of the bus station and describes the network of chain-fence pens that had been erected overnight to convert the area into a makeshift detention centre.

Unable to afford land, refugees arriving from the island of Anafi in the 19th century took advantage of an ordinance saying that if four walls and a roof could be erected overnight, the house was theirs at sunrise.

I come from a country where 40 new statues were erected overnight in the downtown.

Tourists zooming along the Bee Line Expressway gape at all of the huge steel rides that have seemingly been erected overnight.

The Park Police arrested 31 people on Dec. 4 during the course of a dramatic standoff between law enforcement and protesters when a wooden structure, the "People's Pavilion," was erected overnight and was deemed unsafe by police.

One of the most charming sculptures in any city, it was made by Sir George Frampton, paid for by J. M. Barrie and erected in secret overnight so that children out with their nannies would think it had arrived by magic.

In certain neighborhoods, entire buildings are razed and new ones erected seemingly overnight.

H IDDEN behind the painted fun house walls, a small village of overnight housing is erected at each stop along the Amusements of America route.

Going to the sites, he found that they had erected temporary wooden fences to corral young cattle overnight, as protection against lions and other predators.

Times Online currently attracts 20 million unique readers a month, most of whom will disappear overnight once the pay-wall is erected.

The anarchist group INDECLINE erected the statue, titled The Emperor Has No Balls, overnight Thursday.