How to Use rising in a Sentence

rising

noun
  • He was the leader of an armed rising against the elected government.
  • 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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