Construct has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son. | |
| 2. | After reading his books I feel I can construct a house. | |
| 3. | In order to learn from mistakes, we construct a "no blame" system. | |
| 4. | Take my hand. The two of us are going to construct a utopia. | |
| 5. | In the sixteenth century, Ottoman Turks attempted to construct a canal in Egypt to unite the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. | |
| 6. | No, you aren't in love, for what you call love is just a psychosocial construct to make people ignore their animalic heritance. | |
| 7. | I will construct a wooden building. | |
| 8. | The slope of the ground made it difficult to construct the road. | |
| 9. | "Well, what are you waiting for? Construct additional pylons!" "There is not enough minerals." "Then we've got to find the minerals." | |
| 10. | I wanted to construct additional pylons, but a voice told me, "You've not enough energy." |