Sentence examples for i erect from inspiring English sources

I erect barriers, set up roadblocks, and do most anything in my power to keep God from drawing too close.

Difficult as it is, I resist the temptation to become so hardened in my skepticism that I erect a shield against considering possible new evidence.

I erected our silver tepee uphill from a line of gleaming air conditioned Airstream trailers - camping with nail varnish, very 1960s and very Woodstock.

I erected in my mind a New York of my imagination, a city long gone, a city built over, a city no more.

I erected bee hotels and bird boxes, and turned my living room into a greenhouse, germinating a thousand wildlife-friendly plants.

I covered them with copper sheets and made its steps from bronze, and in the gates I erected huge bronze bulls and huge serpents to... arouse the admiration of all people".

George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order".

Many of the stelae that K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I erected became prototypes for monuments raised by his successors.

In retrospect, I think I implicitly sensed that I erected a barrier between me and the world.

In 682, Jasaw Chan K'awiil I erected the first dated monument at Tikal in 120 years and claimed the title of kaloomte, so ending the hiatus.

I erected a mental barrier between myself and the cheerleaders I would never socialize with: If I couldn't be popular, I reasoned, I could become the proof that the popular kids were wrong.