7 sentences with 'constructed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word constructed and other words derived from it.
• « Roman facilities such as aqueducts and baths were built and roads were constructed linking the province to the rest of the empire. »
• « Roman roads were so well constructed that some survive to the present day, now used by cars instead of the horse-drawn carts for which they were originally built. »
• « Before the telegraph, a message and reply could take up to two years to travel between England and India, but after telegraph lines were constructed in the course of the mid-19th century decades, a message and reply could make the circuit in just two days. This, of course, greatly increased the efficiency of governing in the context of world empires. »
• « Faced with the huge number of Jews in Poland, the Nazis chose to herd them into hastily constructed ghettos in towns and cities. Ghettos were neighbourhoods of a town or city that were usually fenced off, surrounded by barbed wire and then filled with the surrounding Jews. »
• « Whereas in the past intellectuals tried to define the 'meaning' of history, or of Western civilisation, or of 'humanity', postmodern thinkers exposed all the ways in which these 'meanings' had been constructed, usually to support the desires of the people telling the stories. »
• « Your memory, capable of storing billions of bits of information, when you think of a sausage has constructed an image from the sum of the memories of the sausages you have seen, smelled and eaten in your life. »
• « Throughout this course we will study what it means to grow up in a society with the characteristics of today's Western societies, and how modern nations and states were historically constructed. »