How to use "building" in a sentence

The helicopter lands and the nurses carry me into the building.

The building that I went to live in was nice on the outside but not on the inside

We walked into the town and finally found a place to sleep in an empty building.

Now demolished, number 29 was an old building with three floors

The message in chalk that blamed the Jews was written on the wall of a building in a Jewish area

Somewhere on the outskirts of Paris, Jean Valjean stopped outside a large, ancient building with damp walls

The old woman, the only other person who lived in the building, always went to bed before nightfall

On one side of him was a tall building, all its doors and windows covered with metal bars

For the next three years, Marius lived in a small room in an old, damp-walled building on the outskirts of Paris - the same room that Valjean and Cosette had lived in eight years earlier

A few minutes later, there was nobody in the building except for Marius and the Jondrettes

Enjolras, who was the leader of the rebels, organized the building of a second barricade and the manufacture of bullets from melted silver

The building is old but in okay shape, and he turns the generator on, and the electric lights start

They try to stop her, but she runs into the burning building

And at this point she screams and runs from the building and falls to the floor." Eleanor stops speaking, and for a moment there is silence at the table.

How long ago was his last visit to this cold stone building? More than twenty years? Well, that is not important at the moment

Around the old but impressive school, there are green gardens and grounds that continue for miles, and at the windows of the building there are the thirty faces of serious young men, who watch them strangely.

He is the oldest teacher at Barnaby's: practically part of the building." Bowen stops and thinks

Outside they can see the renovation work: there is scaffolding on the face of the old building, a new wall on the side of it, and three or four workmen are sitting on a bench eating lunch.

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

The building was enormous, higher even than the tallest apartment blocks

There was a grand ancient building on the banks of a river behind her.

The building seemed bigger than ever; the hologram wall seemed brighter

At the edge of the woods was a low stone building, a cottage or a boat-house

You want to get out of the building

'Begin to climb up the building, Nathan.'

Nathan climbs out of the window and up onto the roof of the building.

Nathan quickly gets away from Bud and runs across the roof of the building.

Quickly, he runs across to the building and begins to climb.

'He's running to that building,' says Nathan.

And the three of them begin to climb up to the roof of the building.

The Cat and Natalie run across the roof of the building

Then, The Cat jumps from one building to the next.

Of course no amount of amusing talk, no quantity of icy Dom PS 233;rignon could render her unaware of the excitement that was building in the showroom as curtain time drew near

She had an almost psychic sense that the perpetrator of this viciousness was in the building now, perhaps on the third floor with her

How could he make the room colder without using the air conditioner? Whoever he was, he could override her computer from another terminal in the building; she could accept that

Like the relentless building of a storm wind and then the lightning

Gas might be leaking under the concrete slab and building up down there, in which case it's possible you wouldn't detect it right away, but you'd still be sitting on top of a bomb."

They put their heads down and scurried past the front of the diner, around the side, through the purple light under the single mercury-vapor lamp, and into the deep shadows behind the building.

They slipped around the corner of the building and moved stealthily toward the front.

Two hundred yards away, at the far side of the concrete field, stood a one-story windowless building, approximately a hundred feet long, with a steeply pitched slate roof.

Jeeps, Land Rovers, and other four-wheel drive vehicles - eight in all - were lined up in front of the low building, side-by-side in the falling snow.

No one yet had come out of the building to challenge them, which most likely meant that Danny had jinxed the video security system.

The falling bricks had left another hole in the wall of the building

The building had completely disappeared

The fighting-machines were extraordinary, but could not compare to this building-machine

When I looked again, the busy building-machine had already put together several of the pieces of metal from inside the cylinder into a shape that was very like its own

The Martians had taken away the digging-machine and apart from the fighting-machine on the far side of the pit and a building- machine that was busy out of my sight, the pit was empty

I looked up and saw the lower part of a building- machine coming slowly across it

I came to a destroyed building-machine halfway to St John's Wood station

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

I followed the parish clerk into the vestry, a small building attached to the church

She voted in an almost-empty building, which was for women only.