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Example sentences for "raising"

Lexicographically close words:
raiser; raisers; raises; raiseth; raisin; raisings; raisins; raison; raisonable; raisonnable
  1. He had evidently ordered some brandy immediately on his entrance, and his eyes met mine just as he was in the act of raising the glass to his lips.

  2. I, feeling the heat of the apartment, walked to the window, and raising the sash looked out into the cool dark evening.

  3. It seems all right when you are with me, and talk about it," she continued slowly, raising her eyes to mine.

  4. You keep up your good habits, Lady Angela," he said, raising his cap.

  5. Even if he were," the Duke said, raising his head, "how could he have known the cipher?

  6. He did not have the slightest fear of the man, and at last, raising his head, he took a look.

  7. It made Harry angry, and, raising himself up a little, he shook his fist again at the figure on the branch, now growing clearer in outline.

  8. So they made the ocean their abode, raising billows high as hills for their protection, and they began to issue forth from their fortress to make attacks on the mighty saints.

  9. Upon this follows The Raising of Lazarus; next The Council of the Jews, to which the devil appears as a Prologue, dressed in the extreme of the fashion of the day, which he sets forth minutely enough in his speech also.

  10. Lucian eulogises the pantomime of the dumb-show actors of his epoch, and the admirable influence they exercised in raising the deaf and speechless above general contempt.

  11. Outside, in the street, he stood for a moment, hesitating, and an expectant fiacre drew up before the house, the cocher raising an interrogative whip.

  12. He remained silent for a few moments, but at last he spoke without raising his eyes.

  13. Its direction and borders may be easily traced by raising the leg,--a movement which puts the muscle in action.

  14. Turn the body on the face, raising it a little, with the hands under the hips, to allow any water to run out from the air passages.

  15. Is there one who, blessed with means, can find delight in raising from the slough of despond a poor wretch stranded on the bank of the black river of despair?

  16. It is not difficult to imagine a company of hard-up poor fellows genuinely destitute; mates, perhaps, on the same kind of work, resorting to this method of raising a shilling rather than apply at the workhouse for it.

  17. Hence, no new combustions or oxygenations can happen without destroying this equilibrium, and raising the combustible substances to a superior degree of temperature.

  18. By the expression specific caloric of bodies, we understand the respective quantities of caloric requisite for raising a number of bodies of the same weight to an equal degree of temperature.

  19. When it is used, the matter to be dissolved is first introduced into the bottle, and the acid is then permitted to pass in as slowly as we please, by raising the glass rod gently as often as is necessary until saturation is produced.

  20. But on raced the masks; and gaining Bello's palace, and raising the alarm, there sallied from thence a woodland of spears, which charged upon the disordered ranks in the grove.

  21. As I am a man," shouted the despised plenipo, raising himself on his toes, "my royal master will resent this affront!

  22. We bought the ground again from individual owners and have agreed to pay Colombia twenty-five million dollars to keep her from raising a racket.

  23. The great rivers of the empire are so liable to disastrous floods that in many of the lower lands the people content themselves with fishing and raising geese and ducks.

  24. The contribution of Belgium to farming and stock raising has been immense.

  25. Oh, hum," yawned Sam, raising himself from the position in which he had lain all night.

  26. This proved to be true and a few moments later after a great pulling and tugging Sam succeeded in raising the heavy little chest from its place.

  27. Mrs. Livermore was one of the most efficient helpers in raising this money.

  28. One by one, good men became interested in the matter, and one true-hearted minister became an agent for the raising of funds.

  29. And they take the greatest care of the eggs and the young of the aphides, raising them as tenderly as they raise their own young.

  30. I shall never come home again," she said, scarcely raising her voice above a whisper.

  31. And raising his little gun, the officer pointed it straight at Rudolf's nose.

  32. Broad then ceased to blow himself out, and took himself in again, raising such a wind that the trees in the forest bowed and bent, and became what he was at first.

  33. As has already been mentioned, the "Federal Reserve Board," which corresponds to our Reichsbank, had issued a warning against the raising of loans for belligerent States.

  34. Dernburg's plan for raising a loan in the United States had failed.

  35. The political aim of bringing pressure to bear on England with a view to the raising of the blockade was not realized.

  36. Our chief efforts were directed towards raising the insurance limit of the German companies.

  37. At the end of March, 1915, we succeeded, acting on instructions from Berlin, in raising a small loan.

  38. Our voluntary cessation of submarine warfare would inspire Wilson to press for a raising of English hunger blockade.

  39. Then Weise had sworn fealty to the king, raising the arm on which was inscribed the motto of revolution.

  40. Without raising her eyes she asked: "Then why did you do it?

  41. Then I knelt down, as silent as the night, Too self-renounced for fears; Raising my small face to the boundless blue, Whose stars did mix and tremble in my tears!

  42. Then he writes to Sir Alexander Malet in the same month, that Her Majesty's Government can only leave to Germany the sole responsibility of raising a war in Europe, which the Diet seemed bent on making.

  43. Raising their wounded comrade, the other two men lowered him into the arms of those who had already gained safety.

  44. Sir Knight," replied Redward, raising the hilt of his sword to his battered headpiece, "here thou dost see all that is left of the six score inhabitants of Hamble!

  45. For no other man than Dingan had her blood run faster, and he had made her life blossom.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addition; adjunct; advancement; amplification; apotheosis; apprenticeship; architecture; ascent; assembly; assumption; beatification; breeding; building; casting; composition; conditioning; construction; conversion; craftsmanship; creation; crescendo; cultivation; deification; deployment; development; devising; discipline; dispersion; drill; elaboration; elevation; enlargement; erection; exaltation; exercise; extension; extraction; fabrication; flare; formation; formulation; grooming; growing; handicraft; handiwork; harvesting; height; hiking; improvement; increase; magnification; making; manufacture; milling; mining; molding; nurture; practice; preparation; processing; raising; rearing; rehearsal; smelting; splay; spread; training; upbringing; upheaval; uplift; uplifting; widening; working; workmanship; yeasty


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    raising himself; raising his; raising money; raising the; raising water