built-up – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of built-up

Adjective: built-up

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore built-up
Superlativemost built-up

Sample Sentences

  • Built-up weights in the wheels balance the revolving and 50 per cent of the reciprocating weight. [1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class "5" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 400:]
  • Lyness' built-up pilings were not high enough to keep the ground floor above water during this flood. [2003, Roselynn Ederer, Saginaw County, Michigan:]
  • The picture below dates to about 1860 and shows the Point not too many years after the construction of the Long Dock, seen here as a strip of built-up roadway just wide enough for two horsedrawn wagons to pass each other. [2009, Richard Philp, Catskill Village:]
  • Forget any idyllic Garden of Eden of running when we ran barefootand naked before Adam plucked a shoe with a built-up heel from the tree of running. [2014, Nicholas Romanov, Kurt Brungardt, The Running Revolution:]
  • Gunther's car was a '38 Oldsmobile with a built-up seat and special elongated pedals put on by Arnie the garageman for a reasonable price. [2014, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Never Cross a Vampire:]
  • The stained-glass windows were cleaned; years of built-up soil removed from the murals; the wooden pews sanded and refinished, the kneeling benches covered with soft new carpeting. [2008, Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are You Now?:]
  • His analytical method gradually strips away built-up defensive layers of the personality until we are able to see our true selves. [2011, Ruth Snowden, Understanding Jung:]
  • This slowed entry into the bowel reduces built-up gas and runny poos which leads to a happier, more contented baby. [2012, Jan Murray, Mum, Baby & Toddler:]
  • All the built-up passion that I'd put to rest when I fell asleep last night came back with full force. [2014, Kelly Carrero, Paradox:]
  • She picketed the skewbald paint with the others, then filled the coffeepot at the creek and started a fresh batch brewing on the built-up fire. [2012, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Sins of Laughing Lyle:]
  • World society, as Williams puts it, 'is something of which we need to be suspicious because of the risks that its pursuit may create for the painfully built-up and relatively fragile structures of order that exist among states. [2012, J. Troy, Christian Approaches to International Affairs:]
  • Model 3 presents an amazing illustration of all else being equal where I regress the housing prices as a function of number of bedrooms and the square footage of the built-up area of the house. [2015, Murtaza Haider, Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics:]
  • It was all more built-up, she claimed, more busy; and there were objects around which were new and unidentifiable. [2012, SK Webb, The Deviant Apparition:]
  • As they left the built-up centre of Glasgow the buildings gradually thinned out, and there was a feeling of light and space that she had never experienced before. [2012, Meg Henderson, Chasing Angels:]
  • Back then, any built-up place with walls surrounding it and a population of over ten thousand people was considered a “city.” [2014, James F. Dunnigan, Daniel Masterson, The Way of the Warrior:]
  • He contended that the speed limit of 80 km/h on motorways, outside a built-up area, which concerns inter alia goods vehicles did not apply to such a vehicle, which is subject to the limits relating to passenger cars.
  • Contra-flow cycling is most often applied on basic cycle network links in low-speed local access roads, both within and outside the built-up area.

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