RISING in a Sentence

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I am tired," said Scarlett, rising and meeting Mammy's eyes with a childlike, helpless look, "and I'm afraid I'm catching a cold too.

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 Meanings and Examples of RISING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rising
 a.  sloping upward
 a.  coming to maturity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  She went out of the kitchen and Mattie, rising, began to clear the dishes from the table.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  Ellen closed her eyes and began praying, her voice rising and falling, lulling and soothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  "I couldn't," said Pittypat weakly, rising to her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  And there's the long view down the road to the river, across the cotton fields, and the mist rising from the bottom lands in the twilight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  "I'm always your little girl," Scarlett would say and bury her head upon Ellen's breast, her guilt rising up to accuse her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  "Don't go," he called, rising in his saddle and holding up his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Always the rising chorus swelled: "We are hungry, your wife, your babies, your parents."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Suspense, worry, sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  I am tired," said Scarlett, rising and meeting Mammy's eyes with a childlike, helpless look, "and I'm afraid I'm catching a cold too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Shouldering the shell-pitted houses patched with bits of old lumber and smoke-blackened bricks, the fine homes of the Carpetbaggers and war profiteers were rising, with mansard roofs, gables and turrets, stained-glass windows and wide lawns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
16  The federal government tried to control rising health-care costs.
17  She tried to fight down her rising terror.
18  The rising generation of students are optimistic about the future.
19  The level of unemployment is rising.
20  Unemployment is likely to go on rising this year.
21  A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.
22  More worship the rising than the setting sun.
23  Their neighborhood is being inundated by the rising waters of the Colorado River.
24  The wind was still rising, approach-ing a force nine gale.
25  She's the rising star of the organization.
26  In such rising route of China, the PLA has been tools and policy-making participant more than being sharer of political power.
27  The rising number of car crimes is a nationwide problem.
28  While prices are rising so fast, many shops think they can climb on the bandwagon and raise their prices, too.
29  The unemployment rate is rising in that country.
30  The costs of the project are rising at an alarming rate.