Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of building castles.
- noun Especially, building castles in the air; day-dreaming.
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Examples
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While millions of kids will construct sand creations all summer for nothing, sand advisers have built practices charging individuals and companies for sand castle-building classes, as well as partnering with charities that sponsor sand-sculpting competitions.
Work's a Day at the Beach for Sand-Castle Consultants Joel Millman 2011
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At the same time, as Mr. Goodall emphasizes, even the most forbidding fortresses had also been intended as homes: Given the strains of his job, King John needed somewhere to relax, and his castle-building schemes included comfortable living quarters at Portchester, one of his favorite residences.
The House Impregnable Stephen Brumwell 2011
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While millions of kids will construct sand creations all summer for nothing, sand advisers have built practices charging individuals and companies for sand castle-building classes, as well as partnering with charities that sponsor sand-sculpting competitions.
Work's a Day at the Beach for Sand-Castle Consultants Joel Millman 2011
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If castle-building was in your blood, eventually you'd come to love more durable materials apt to make your dream come true.
Dyane Jean François: Make a Splash This Summer: Dream Big 2010
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At Seaside, there are three art galleries and seventeen restaurants, pizza and pottery parties, sand castle-building tournaments, even a repertory theater.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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At Seaside, there are three art galleries and seventeen restaurants, pizza and pottery parties, sand castle-building tournaments, even a repertory theater.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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Castles appeared during the reign of King Stephen of England because they were the best way to defend the land and there wasn't a strong king to put any limits on castle-building.
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Well, we were but forty years old between us; and, for my part, I never found any harm come of castle-building, but a great deal of pleasure.
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They won their first Sun-Sentinel annual sand castle-building contest in high school.
Mr. Sandman Stephanie Cooperman for ForbesLife magazine 2006
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Castles appeared during the reign of King Stephen of England because they were the best way to defend the land and there wasn't a strong king to put any limits on castle-building.
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