appearing

Example Sentences

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Not far off, the heavy swells, uprearing to heaven, toppled forward in streaming white tumult and stretched away into a flat boil, as smaller waves will over a jutting reef or sand bar.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was New York, and he was in the young New York of the North-west, with great skeleton structures uprearing and the turmoil of building.

From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas

And we gazed, till slowly disappearing,    Like a day-dream, passed the pageant by, And I saw but those lone hills, uprearing    Dull dark shapes against a hueless sky.

From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart

Then for the first time in her life she felt shame at her uprearing.

From The Shadow by Ovington, Mary White

Both were thinking too deeply—were much too disturbed by the uprearing of this tragic thing—for idle chatter.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.