SURGE in a Sentence

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For SURGE, below is one of 79 sentences:
A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.

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 Meanings and Examples of SURGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
surge
 n.  outburst; roll or be tossed about on waves, as a boat
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Pa is a sweet, selfish, irresponsible darling, Scarlett thought, with a surge of affection for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Charles felt a surge of masculinity such as he had never experienced, for this was the first time in his life that he had ever embarrassed any girl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  When Uncle Peter finally maneuvered the carriage out of the mudholes and onto Peachtree Street, she felt the first surge of interest she had known in months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Something in his look challenged her spirit and brought her strength back in a surge of dislike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  She only felt a furious surge of indignation that he should think her such a fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  At the sight of Ashley in rags, with an axe in his hand, her heart went out in a surge of love and of fury at fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  She knew what he meant and her heart went out in a surge of warm affection for him, hearing him say he, too, loved the thing she loved best.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  The music stopped as they entered and the crowd of people seemed to her confused mind to surge up to her like the roar of the sea and then ebb away, with lessening, ever-lessening sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  As a dark river sweeps by under a lightning flash, she saw her chance of happiness surge past under a flash of temptation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  Her jungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge of half-formed thought about the creation of beauty by suggestion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  In an instant, I gave a sudden surge, and rose to my hands and knees.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  A tide began to surge beneath the calm surface of Stephen's friendliness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  Occasionally amid these memories temptations of the devil would surge into her imagination: thoughts of how things would be after his death, and how her new, liberated life would be ordered.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
15  These hang on the wave's ridge; to these the yawning billow shows ground amid the surge, where the sea churns with sand.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Specialists see various reasons for the recent surge in inflation.
2  A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.
3  The surge in the power supply knocked out all the computers.
4  His initial surge of euphoria was quickly followed by dismay.
5  He felt a surge of pure adrenalin as he won the race.
6  She felt a surge of excitement when she heard the song.
7  Provided the mission concludes successfully though, the state media are likely to fuel a surge of triumphant patriotism.
8  Although few people realized it, the Dow-Jones averages had reached their nadir and would soon begin an upward surge.
9  A sudden surge of adrenalin can negate the effects of fatigue: there's nothing like a good shock to wake you up.
10  Still, a surge in litigation is likely, says Glen Lavy, a lawyer for a group that opposes gay marriage.
11  Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has created a surge of oil production from the Permian Basin, as drillers use water, chemicals and sand to crack open oil-bearing rocks deep underground.
12  And still the row rumbles on over who is to blame for the steadily surging crime statistics.
13  The dollar surged against the yen in the final half hour of trading.
14  The gates opened and the crowd surged forward.
15  When the company went under, tales of his extravagance surged through the industry.