How to Use surfacing in a Sentence

surfacing

noun

• The surfacing of the podcast brought the debate to a head.
  — Anna North, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018
• For the cicadas, buried below ground for years, the surfacing comes in the spring.
  — Dwight Weingarten, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2021
• To swim is to be in two places at once, a surfacing of the eyes into the world of air, then down into the world of water.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• Search, then, will evolve away from the actual act of searching to the act of surfacing.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2017
• Others in the river, hooked to the rope, diving and surfacing.
  — Will MacKin, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• She was awakened by the sound of orcas surfacing to breathe.
  — Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
• Often the surfacing alone is hard to push a wheelchair.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 20 July 2018
• However, soon the world saw PayPal and Google surfacing, and then the dot-com boom.
  — Abhishek Rungta, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• There's minimal surfacing along the sides, and the taillights appear to stretch the width of the rear end and wrap around onto the fenders.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 July 2022
• But the quality of the fakes and the surfacing are uninspiring and just bad tradecraft.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2020
• To call them surfacing whales turns the formula around.
  — J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
• Body surfacing is more sharply creased than before, and there are more rugged design cues such as faux skid plates on the lower parts of the front and rear bumpers.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
• For the first time in over two centuries, the emergence of the 17-year cicadas will coincide with the surfacing of Brood XIX — 13-year cicadas.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
• Melania’s surfacings since the election have been sparse, wan, and imbued with pathos.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Even though Stanton has a no-trade clause in his contract, his name keeps surfacing in trade rumors.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 July 2017
• Size: 23 to 33 feet Defining trait: Quick movement, snout-first surfacingA rare sight close to shore, Minke whales are close in size to gray whales and spout like their cetacean cousins, too.
  — OregonLive.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• The side surfacing also looks a lot cleaner than the Blazer's busy bodywork.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2022
• The effect — that of a whale surfacing, serene and massive — is, in the literal sense, wonderful.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 May 2024
• But clearly, if Japanese air and naval forces had been able to track the submarine for two days before the surfacing, the Shang class is too noisy.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2018
• Yet their lives will continue to be formed by this act of forgetting, and of the sudden surfacing of trauma.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Bids could be awarded in February, which would allow for eight to 10 weeks in March and April to install the surfacing and equipment.
  — cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
• And Koepka himself has no regrets about the video surfacing.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 17 June 2021
• The state of Missouri had told the Trinity Lutheran Church preschool that the state couldn’t pay for the preschool’s safer playground surfacing, because the state banned funding any church.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 26 June 2017
• Then, about a year after the quake, the whales returned to their normal location and patterns of feeding and surfacing.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
• Adams has a year left on his contract, and a report like this surfacing before training camp starts isn’t a surprise.
  — Tom Silverstein, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
• Walchanowicz explained that the city will dig out the old surfacing and fix any drainage issues to prevent standing water around the play structures.
  — Laura Bednar, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2019
• Still, that hasn't stopped a slew of reports from surfacing in recent months that all point to a sizable update to Samsung's Galaxy Note line.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
• People were a little put-off by the whole Bangle-butt flame surfacing styling thing and arguments were made that the E46 was the last of the classic 3 Series models.
  — Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 24 June 2024
• In a video posted by the company, the whales can be seen surfacing and spouting mist from their blowholes before sinking back into the water.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
• Men are complicated, and for some of us the surfacing of that complication in today’s fast-changing watch fashion is a good thing.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024