How to Use rising in a Sentence
rising
noun- He was the leader of an armed rising against the elected government.
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Hopefully the clouds break up enough to enjoy the rising of the Hunter’s Full Moon in the evening.
— David Streit, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019 -
Food prices jumped a sizable 2.6% with the cost of beef and veal rising, though the cost of fresh fruits declined.
— Martin Crutsinger, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021 -
My hope, garnered first in the night sky and fostered further in the rising of the sun, assuaged the fear pent up in every fiber of my being.
— Michael Heim, al, 19 June 2020 -
However, that work was overshadowed by the state's rising and brighter stars.
— Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2020 -
Needless to say, Scorpio risings require a lot of patience in love.
— Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 24 June 2023 -
In the richest nation in the world, an obscene—and rising—number of people cannot afford to feed themselves.
— Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2021 -
That’s normal in the tropics, where there’s plenty of heat to go around, but the Arctic should be cold enough to better resist this large-scale rising of hot air.
— Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021 -
The world was awash in dollar income streams from Treasury debt, and with redemptions of dollars for gold rising, Nixon had to close the gold window.
— John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022 -
The plants are now legally operating again, but, with the price of gas rising, fishermen are spending less and less time on the water.
— Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021 -
New research has been pointing towards a stark future due to climate changes and the ongoing rising of the sea level.
— Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Nov. 2022 -
As the third track on her upcoming album, rising, which drops May 20, the Chinese pop star takes a quick visit to her adolescence years — even at just 21.
— James Dinh, Billboard, 3 May 2022 -
Dak Prescott is signed through 2025 but with the current financial market at quarterback rising, the time to speak about a new contract could happen again.
— Dallas News, 28 July 2022 -
In addition, a good panettone takes two to three days to make (a couple of lengthy risings explain that), whereas a loaf of simple peasant bread is merely that day’s work.
— Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2019 -
McMahan added that huge amounts of kelp also cloud the water and that a drastic rising of the sea bed over the last 200 years means that remains of the Neva were more likely in the island’s interior than in the water.
— Andrew O'Reilly, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2017 -
Instead, the regime hardened its position, fearing a repeat of the anti-Bolshevik risings of the Civil War.
— Anna Reid, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017 -
Drifting beside their rhythmic rising, our small group was awed into silence.
— Cassidy Randall, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2020 -
Diego Armando Maradona, a 24-year-old rising and controversial young star leaves Barcelona and arrives in Naples–a city going through financial and social disarray and in need of so much more than a pricey footballer.
— Luis Miguel Echegaray, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019 -
Alabama's percentage of positive tests was 12.5% last week and rising.
— Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2020 -
Long lines at food banks, combined with rising and issues, have raised the public’s awareness of how easily the average American can become food insecure.
— Cara Rosenbloom, Washington Post, 5 June 2020 -
With cases of the more-infectious Delta variant rising and summer travel even more chaotic than usual, some people are having second thoughts about their vacations.
— Allison Pohle, WSJ, 23 July 2021 -
What placements are most compatible with Cancer risings?
— Lisa Stardust, Women's Health, 5 Mar. 2023 -
Still, with average hourly pay rising and unemployment rate steadily dropping, analysts say spending and growth could pick up, at least modestly, once omicron fades.
— Anne D'innocenzio, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022 -
City officials said there has been some positive signs, with hotel occupancy and airport traffic rising.
— Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2021 -
With the demand for talent rising and freelancers becoming increasingly favorable in the eyes of the corporate world, digital talent platforms became a much larger player in the talent game.
— Yec, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021 -
But Saturday’s exciting and dramatic near-miss signals a real rising.
— Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021 -
The Babylonians of the first millennium B.C. recorded their astronomical knowledge in a similar way, by inscribing on clay tablets the heliacal rising of important stars — that is, the day that a star first appears above the horizon each year.
— Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023 -
But the growing Haredi population — about 13 percent of the nation and rising — has amplified secular demands for Haredim to participate more fully in the protection and economy of the country.
— New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021 -
But with joblessness rising and unemployment payments shrinking, competition for such work has stiffened, and more people rely on it as their primary income source.
— Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020 -
China’s delayed economic data showed a mixed recovery in the third quarter, with unemployment rising and retail sales weakening in September despite a pickup in growth.
— Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
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