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Example sentences for "could rise"

  • Before we could rise, the black-robed priest lifted his tall, gaunt frame slowly from the prie-Dieu.

  • The carriage stopped and, before I could rise to see why, the door was opened and some one without said politely, "This is indeed a pleasure, Master Wheatman!

  • Once our dogs roused a blacktail buck close up out of the brush coulie where the ground was moderately smooth, and after a headlong chase of a mile they ran into him, threw him, and killed him before he could rise.

  • The crossing of the legs brought the wounded animal down immediately and Jock had it by the throat before it could rise again.

  • I had rushed in with rifle clubbed, with the wild idea of stunning it before it could rise, but was met by the lowered horns and unmistakable signs of charging, and beat a retreat quite as speedy as my charge.

  • He struggled gamely, but it was some minutes before he could rise; and then his eye looked wilder and more despairing; his legs were planted apart to balance him, and his flanks were Jim straightened up the double-span again.

  • Ere he could rise he was pinioned by twenty hands.

  • That he could rise out of the barbaric in his love and his hate was heroic.

  • Before he could rise, the steel-like grip of the roused preacher sent him halfway to the door, and then out into the dirt of the road.

  • Before he could rise he heard swift feet and a merry voice and Marietta burst through the door.

  • Thence he could rise to fame, and make his mother happy, knowing at the same time that he was capable of faithfully loving his wife.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could rise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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