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Example sentences for "rears"

Lexicographically close words:
rearrangement; rearrangements; rearranging; rearrest; rearrested; rearward; reascend; reascended; reascending; reason
  1. Daughter of commerce, from the hoary deep New-York emerging rears her lofty domes, And hails from far her num'rous ships of trade, Like shady forests rising on the waves.

  2. Repentance comes with kindness, goodness rears Its cross on Calvary's height, inspiring hope Which triumphs over evil and its guilt.

  3. Here the architectural monster rears its back and shoulders on an equal scale and this whole unregarded world of colossal consistent symmetry and hidden high finish gives you the measure of the vast total treasure of items and features.

  4. In the low district assigned to him, a mosque rears its unpretending head, simple in its aspect, but still distinguished by its beauty and architectural ornaments.

  5. Monte Cetona is yonder height which rears its bristling ridge defiantly from neighbouring Chiusi.

  6. We now have three males, each of which occupies half an acre, and each of which rears two offspring--that is the position at the close of the second year.

  7. It then obtains a mate, breeds, and rears offspring, two of which we will assume are males.

  8. The belted kingfisher bores into the bank of the river and rears his family of six or eight in the dark, ill-odoured chamber at the end.

  9. In my own realm, our trusty spies report, While Christiern lingers in a Swedish court, Once more Sedition rears her batter'd crest, And plants her snakes in every loyal breast.

  10. The nobility lies in the action, the horse rears on his hind legs after the favourite manner of Velasquez in well-known equestrian portraits of Ferdinand IV.

  11. The outside wall of the Kremlin rears itself on another side, with gates piercing the towers of sharply peaked roofs, permitting you to see above it the turrets, the domes, the belfries and the spires of the churches and convents it encloses.

  12. It rears its tall head from a jungle of laurel, madrone, oak, and other trees; and I doubt if so many as fifty large redwoods often stand upon a single acre.

  13. It rears itself at the extreme end of a mass of old ruins still serving as a prison, through custom, and to which the people have given the name of Prison of the Blood-Hound (Carcer delle Veltro).

  14. Its nostrils held tight by a subduing apparatus, the bull occasionally resists under the stress of its anguish, routs its tormentor and rears itself, ready for vain accomplishments.

  15. Where it breeds and rears its young, in Germany for example, a true sportsman would no more think of shooting a linnet than he would of killing and eating his daughter's dearest canary.

  16. I would also mention elk, but for the fact that every man who rears a fine herd of elk quickly becomes so proud of the animals, and so much attached to them, that he can not bear to have them shot and butchered for market!

  17. And surely she who now so fondly rears Thy youth, in thee, thus hourly brightening, Beholds the rainbow of her future years, Before whose heavenly hues all sorrow disappears.

  18. Herself more sweetly rears the babe she bears, Who never quits the breast, no meaner passion shares.

  19. And would be all or nothing--nor could wait For the sure grave to level him; few years Had fixed him with the Caesars in his fate, On whom we tread: For THIS the conqueror rears The arch of triumph!

  20. Ye mouldering relics of a race departed, Your names have perished; not a trace remains, Save where the grassgrown mound its summit rears From the green bosom of your native plains.

  21. In the midst of {65} the mass a single enormous sycamore often rears its ghastly limbs, while at its foot springs gracefully up a light fringe of the pensile willow.

  22. Indeed, the red-backed bird is the only true-born Briton of the entire family; he alone nests and rears his young here regularly.

  23. The otter, for example, might be classed as a cave-dweller, as he seeks refuge in caves; yet he also rears his young in underground nests as a burrowing animal.

  24. In it the mother armadillo rears her young until they are large enough to care for themselves.

  25. Whatever perfection the just man may recognize in himself, he is like the palm tree, which, says the Psalmist, the higher it rears its lofty head the deeper down in the earth it casts its roots.

  26. Now May, with life and music, The blooming valley fills, And rears her flowery arches For all the little rills.

  27. It plants hard problems as seeds, rears these germs into trees, and from them garners the ripe fruit.

  28. The Alpine peak that proudly rears its head to the clouds must surely be brought low, and finally come back to the same ocean from which those clouds arose.

  29. Goats, when alarmed, leap on the roofs of the chalets, and bleat, in order to arouse the shepherds; so that when Bruin rears himself up against the wall he often meets his death.

  30. The iron-gray bulk, all flattered or fretted by Gothic art, rears itself from the clustering brown walls and roofs of the city, which it seems to gather into its mass below while it towers so far above them.

  31. Away in the dim distance the new Eddystone rears its lofty head.

  32. Just half a mile beyond the time-worn Priory of Hinton, which rears its ivy-clad tower amidst a grove of venerable oaks, Frome merges itself in the Avon.

  33. Beyond the woods which stretch away for miles to the north-east, Buckland Beacon rears his giant form; on the other side of the stream is the little village of Holne, birthplace of Charles Kingsley, whose father was rector here.

  34. Numen there residing, and in consequence rears his altar.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.