SURGING in a Sentence

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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 SURGING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
surging
 n.  great swelling waves; rising of waves, or as if of waves
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Scarlett leaned her elbows on the counter and almost glared at the excited laughing crowd surging about the platform, their hands full of Confederate paper money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  She pushed her way swiftly through the crowds, past the packed, hysterical mob surging in the open space of Five Points, and hurried as fast as she could down the short block toward the depot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  She knew that the feeling of triumph surging through her was certain to be plain in her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  She felt again the rush of helplessness, the sinking yielding, the surging tide of warmth that left her limp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
6  And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled out into view; surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating and contracting his spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
7  There were high squeals and low squeals, grunts, and wails of agony; there would come a momentary lull, and then a fresh outburst, louder than ever, surging up to a deafening climax.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  The men bending and surging in their haste and rage were in every impossible attitude.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  As a fire in her bones, the thought of the pursuer urged her on; and she gazed with longing eyes on the sullen, surging waters that lay between her and liberty.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world, as with an earthquake.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  He heard the thundering and surging out of doors, and it seemed to him as if his late angry mood were going about trying to get at him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
12  And out of his utter, incomprehensible stillness, she felt again the slow momentous, surging rise of the phallus again, the other power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  The chair puffed slowly on, slowly surging into the forget-me-nots that rose up in the drive like milk froth, beyond the hazel shadows.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  I half believed her; for I felt indeed only bad feelings surging in my breast.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  She was aware of her husband approaching a long way off, and she could not help following him in the surging crowd in the midst of which he was moving.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  And still the row rumbles on over who is to blame for the steadily surging crime statistics.
2  The dollar surged against the yen in the final half hour of trading.
3  The gates opened and the crowd surged forward.
4  When the company went under, tales of his extravagance surged through the industry.
5  He surged past the other runners on the last lap.
6  He moved to Berkeley as usage surged, taking a $750-a-month stipend for food and the occasional matinee movie.
7  Specialists see various reasons for the recent surge in inflation.
8  A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.
9  The surge in the power supply knocked out all the computers.
10  His initial surge of euphoria was quickly followed by dismay.
11  He felt a surge of pure adrenalin as he won the race.
12  She felt a surge of excitement when she heard the song.
13  Provided the mission concludes successfully though, the state media are likely to fuel a surge of triumphant patriotism.
14  Although few people realized it, the Dow-Jones averages had reached their nadir and would soon begin an upward surge.
15  A sudden surge of adrenalin can negate the effects of fatigue: there's nothing like a good shock to wake you up.