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Example sentences for "rose"

Lexicographically close words:
rosae; rosaniline; rosaries; rosary; roscida; rosea; roseate; roseaux; rosebud; rosebuds
  1. Everywhere so far as our vision extended the valleys were comparatively well wooded, but the treeless, rock-bound hills rose grimly above the timber line.

  2. This stream came through a sandy valley, and below the junction of the rivers the sand banks rose on the east side a hundred feet or so above the water.

  3. We said a hurried adieu and, watching our chances as the boat rose and fell on the swell, dropped one by one into the little craft.

  4. As the blaze grew I rose to my feet and, dragging larger wood, piled it on.

  5. Rarely the temperature rose above twenty-five degrees below zero, even at midday, and oftener it crept well down into the thirties.

  6. The sun now rose in the southeast, crossed a small segment of the sky, and almost before we were aware of it set in the southwest.

  7. We had gone but a mile when Pete drew his paddle from the water and pointed with it at a narrow, sandy beach ahead, above which rose a steep bank.

  8. Above us rose a high, steep hill covered for two-thirds of the way from its base with a thick growth of underbrush, but quite barren on top save for a few bunches of spruce brush.

  9. Then as a dim realization of the infamy filtered through his thick brain, he rose with a growl like a savage animal, and Bones turned quickly.

  10. Something about the man's demeanour struck Bones as strange, and he rose and went close to him.

  11. So buoyant a soul had Bones, that from the deeps of despair into which he was beginning to sink he rose to heights of confidence, not to say self-assurance, that were positively staggering.

  12. He was half-way across the square when a dark figure rose from the ground and a harsh voice grunted "Kill!

  13. He folded his arms and rose starkly from the chair, his beard all a-bristle, his deep little eyes glaring.

  14. Hamilton clapped his hands, and his orderly, dozing in the shade of the verandah, rose up.

  15. Bones rose in silence, crossed to his chief and held out his hand.

  16. Then suddenly from the undergrowth rose a lank figure, and D'rona of the Magic Eye felt a bony hand at her throat.

  17. The stranger rose and produced a pocket-book, from which he extracted a card and a letter.

  18. And yet I'd swear he was as cool, as collected, and as self-sustained at that moment, as ever was Mr Gladstone in the House as he rose to move a motion of supply.

  19. And the third man held up high above this a cup that was like a rose on fire; "there was a great burning in it, and a dropping of blood in it, and a red cloud above it, and I saw a great secret.

  20. At first a red spark in the farthest distance; then a rushing lamp; and then, as if in an incredible point of time, it swelled into a vast rose of fire that filled all the sea and all the sky and hid the stars and possessed the land.

  21. And so, I do not believe that the rose of fire was merely a ship's light, magnified and transformed by dreaming Welsh sailors.

  22. He may have been mistaken, "the great rose of fire" that came over the deep may have been the port light of a coasting-ship.

  23. They spoke without much difficulty of what they had seen, or had seemed to see, with their eyes, but hardly at all of what their hearts had known when for a moment the glory of the fiery rose had been about them.

  24. The ground sloped gently from the gate and then rose again to a ridge, where a white farmhouse stood all alone.

  25. I darted down the spiral, struck against the wall and fell, rose and ran.

  26. The moon rose higher, and shone through other openings, but I could never see enough of the place at once to know its shape or character; now it would resemble a long cathedral nave, now a huge barn made into a dwelling of tombs.

  27. I rose and went on, but, unable to take my eyes off the shining thing to look to my steps, I struck my foot against a stone.

  28. I rose and went among the apparitions, eager to understand something of their being and belongings.

  29. The prostrate one rose at length, as by a sudden effort, to the sitting posture.

  30. I kissed them, not quite cold, laid the body down again, and appointing a guard over it, rose to provide for the safety of Lona's people during the night.

  31. I rose and resumed my journey, through as quiet a wood as ever grew out of the quiet earth.

  32. I said nothing more, but rose and moved slowly up the slope of the valley.

  33. The lady rose and walked away--not all ungracefully, I thought.

  34. I rose on my elbow, and looking about me, saw many Little Ones descend from their nests.

  35. She rose at once, and without a glance behind her led the way.

  36. Even as she rose she seemed ready to drop and give up the attempt as hopeless; and since, I saw her sink back once fully her own breadth.

  37. In his turn, he rose with Sophie Weringrode.

  38. Immediately, as its rays gushed down and disclosed the man, Lanyard rose boldly from his place in hiding.

  39. Nor dared he stir until, the lights fading out, the patrol rose and skulked onward.

  40. The man at the centre table rose and saluted, offering the commanding officer a sheaf of scribbled messages and reports.

  41. XI UNDER THE ROSE Vague stupefaction replaced the scowl upon the countenance of the commander.

  42. He rose and paused for an instant, his glance instinctively seeking the ledge above the hand-basin.

  43. In the street there rose an uproar of inhuman bawling.

  44. Presently he rose and got the thing, not until he touched it quite persuaded he was not the victim of an optical hallucination.

  45. A sudden clamour rose in the quarter of the landing stage, first one great shout of dismay, then two voices bellowing together, then others.

  46. And as Lanyard rose from his knees after ducking beneath the line, a stream of fatter sparks spat from the end of a fuse.

  47. But undoubtedly he was in the highest spirits; for the lilt of his humming rose sweet and clear and ever louder.

  48. The lieutenant's accents rose to a shrill pitch.

  49. In the alleyway rose a confusion of running feet and shouting tongues.

  50. Around me rose the stately pines; behind me was a simple stretch of rolling woodland; nothing betrayed the nearness of one of the greatest wonders of the world.

  51. As we approached the Ácoma estufa, it presented the appearance of a monstrous bean pot, from the opening of which a ladder rose to a height of twenty feet.

  52. For thirty days the mercury never rose higher than ten degrees below zero.

  53. Bridges of ropes or reeds are, also, made by the most primitive of men; while viaducts of stone rose gradually in perfection, from the rude blocks heaped up by savages to the magnificent structures fashioned by the Romans.

  54. This throat was filled with boiling mud, which rose and fell in nauseating gulps, as if some monster were strangling from a slimy paste which all its efforts could not possibly dislodge.

  55. One day Russ, Laddie, and Rose went out to the barn with Tom Hardy to watch him feed the chickens.

  56. So Rose dried her tears and hurried on after her mother out to Grandma Bell's corncrib.

  57. Russ and Laddie said they wanted to sleep together, while Rose and Violet were to share a berth between them, and thus they would be as comfortable as possible on the trip.

  58. It's too bad Rose didn't wait to see what we were doing.

  59. But Rose just told me that Mun Bun is caught up in a tree with a balloon, and I've got to go and get him down.

  60. Rose started to sing a little song, and then she said: "Oh, but I must go in and help set the table!

  61. Maybe the tramp will bring them back," said Rose after a bit.

  62. Mrs. Bunker didn't yet quite know what Rose meant, for the mother of the six little children had not been out to the corn crib, and did not know what was there.

  63. Mrs. Bunker followed Rose out to the corn crib.

  64. The doll really had on her dress more buttons than she needed, but as some messenger and elevator boys in hotels and apartment houses have the same, I suppose Rose had a right to decorate her doll that way if she liked.

  65. Rose as soon as she had a chance to speak.

  66. Russ looked at Rose and Rose looked at Russ.

  67. Rose had taken her doll and was sitting under a tree, making a new dress for her toy, and Laddie and Vi had gone down to the little brook which bubbled along at the bottom of the green meadow, which was not far from the house.

  68. Laddie got out and this made room for Rose and Violet, for Daddy Bunker said Russ had better stay in and do the driving.

  69. We can take the dolls--those Rose and Vi have--and give 'em a ride on the boat.

  70. This morning when, tentatively, I spoke of going away, Mr. Sloane rose from his seat in horror and declared that for the present I must regard his house as my home.

  71. The balloon which rose from the "Numancia" had a car attached, but there was clearly no one in it.

  72. In a few minutes after it rose again, but this time surmounted by the Chilian flag.

  73. He rose from his chair--the man of fancy, to greet me--the man of fact.

  74. The people in New York saw the balloons as they successively rose from the four vessels, and wonderingly watched their progress.

  75. This one was a little fairer than the first, having one of those beautiful English complexions of mingled rose and snow, and a dash of gold-dust in her hair where the sun touched it.

  76. The red cross of St. George, the British man-of-war flag, rose slowly to the peak.

  77. The waving rose with every breath Scents carelessly the summer air; The wounded rose bleeds forth in death A sweetness far more rich and rare.

  78. Give the white rose priest a flower and crown, For the white rose passed away.

  79. A Thought The summer rose the sun has flushed With crimson glory may be sweet; 'Tis sweeter when its leaves are crushed Beneath the wind's and tempest's feet.

  80. And he rose and went his way Unto the convent gate; long shadows marked One hour before the sunset, and the birds Were singing Vespers in the convent trees.

  81. Thro' silence and thro' darkness We glided down the tide That wound around the mountains That rose on either side.

  82. One is lined with rose velvet and the Four Seasons are embroidered on the largest cushions, with all the attributes of a festival.

  83. As the drawers were added, the chests naturally rose in height, and to prevent their becoming too bulky they decreased in length.

  84. It must be surrounded with objects of approximate age and of equal dignity, otherwise it looks as unseemly as an ancient dame with a pink rose in her hair.

  85. Regency the name of Charles Cressent rose to eminence.

  86. They are records of a desperate struggle of the Greeks to maintain their nationality and independence in the Far East; one usurper after the other rose to fight for the rescue of the kingdom.

  87. A more rapid depression began in the middle ages, so that the sea-level rose from 18 to 20 ft.

  88. Among his fellow scholars at this period of his career were some who in after years rose to eminence in their art, such as Wilkie, Haydon, Collins, Constable.

  89. The low drone of homing planes filled the air as one by one they swooped down to earth, or rose on some perilous mission, while bursting shrapnel added golden balls of fire to the firmament of heaven, now a deep, deep blue.

  90. As I landed, a second boche who like the first had been squatted down rose to his feet, slowly, it seemed, alongside me.

  91. I said triumphantly to my vis-a-vis as he rose to his feet.

  92. But the people rose united, expelled their new rulers, who had been sent to them by the Germans, and declared their independence.

  93. When the storm had spent itself he rose and prayed: "O God, that I could have but one request.

  94. The second curtain rose on the trenches, and it is my impressions of this life, rather than of its details, that I would now write.

  95. The red sun rose on fields accurst, The gray fog fled away; But neither cared to fire the first, For it was Christmas Day.

  96. His state of eagerness rose redly to his ears.

  97. A lusty little storm of crying rose once, quite suddenly, and she kissed down into the pink little mouth that was full of the breath of life--her life.

  98. Time and time again the moans rose to shrieks of dreadful supplication that set her to trembling so that her cot rattled against the baseboard.

  99. She rose as if to throw off the crowding stress of the moment.

  100. The skin flowed over her body with the cool fleshliness of a pink rose petal.

  101. At dusk, with a sense of weakness entirely new to her, she rose to undress, resting after each discarded piece of clothing.

  102. She wanted to feel again and again the quick, ecstatic brash that could race in a wave over her when she held this warm rose of life to her breast.

  103. Twice she rose and, with much of her old revulsion curiously gone, greased the scalded arm by the puny aid of a night light that flowed in from the hall when the door was opened.

  104. Her terror rose a little to the volume of his silence.

  105. Her daughter rose out of a low mound beside the window.

  106. The grunty tones of Mr. Neugass and a woman's fast soprano that rose and rent the silence like the tear of silk.

  107. The instinct to write rose in Lilly, the quick flame of her faddism easily aroused.

  108. Then Margaret rose from her trembling and despondency, and became as a strong angel of comfort to her father and brother.

  109. Charlotte looked at Margaret with surprise; and Margaret, feeling it rather than seeing it, rose up.

  110. Her eyes were on that late-blowing rose as she was trying to answer; and she had caught the idea of the vivid beauty of the feathery leaves of the carrots in the very middle of his last sentence.

  111. She pressed Mrs. Hale's soft languid hand; and rose up and went her way out of the house without seeing a creature.

  112. He rose and walked up and down the room, speaking low words of self-reproach and humiliation, of which Margaret was thankful to hear but few.

  113. When he had somewhat abruptly left the room, Margaret rose from her seat, and began silently to fold up her work; The long seams were heavy, and had an unusual weight for her languid arms.

  114. So Margaret rose up and began slowly to undress herself, feeling the full luxury of acting leisurely, late as it was, after all the past hurry of the day.

  115. Margaret gently rose up and stood opposite to her frail mother; so that she might gather the secure fulfilment of her wish from the calm steadiness of her daughter's face.

  116. Margaret's whole soul rose up against him while he reasoned in this way--as if commerce were everything and humanity nothing.

  117. Kürenberg makes a lady sing: When I stand there alone in my shift and think of thee, noble knight, I blush like a rose on its thorn.

  118. Here, as in the dramas,[2] contrasts in Nature are often used to point contrasts in life: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which like a canker in the fragrant rose Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!

  119. And where the flowers burn with glow of Love, It is the rose that shews the brightest flame, For is the rose not of all flowers the queen, The wondrous beauty child of sun and earth?

  120. The mountains, clothed with forests, rose majestic in various spiry forms, on which we already perceived the light of the rising sun .

  121. On rosy clouds, with rose and tulip crowned, Spring has come down from heaven.

  122. He answered, I came hither yesterday, and a dust rose from the midst of the water, and cried out, and increased in bulk until it became of the size of a buffalo, and said to me words that entered my ear.

  123. Another anecdote may be added to shew the estimation of the rose in the mind of an Arab.

  124. India a kind of rose upon the leaves of which is inscribed, "There is no deity but God.

  125. Take your morning potations, as long as the rose has blossoms and flowers!

  126. The question just now is how we are to get out of this scrape," said Deck, as he rose from his seat on the wet ground.

  127. Deck, as he rose from the ground and ran with all his might to the path leading down to the landing of the ferry, closely followed by the sergeant.

  128. That colonel has rallied his men, and they are now marching very steadily towards the higher land," said the major, as he rose from the seat on a rock he had occupied.

  129. A cloud of smoke rose in the air, and at the same moment, almost, the explosion of a shell was seen on the riflemen's hill.

  130. On one side rose the huge bulk of the mountain.

  131. And from all about rose the low and sleepy hum of mountain bees--feasting Sybarites that jostled one another good-naturedly at the board, nor found time for rough discourtesy.

  132. They both rose to their feet, Edna quite carried away by his enthusiasm and his quick, jerky sentences, bristling with the things she wanted to know.

  133. The dust rose in clouds behind as they tore along the level road.

  134. Up the canyon rose far hills and peaks, the big foothills, pine-covered and remote.

  135. Involuntarily I rose to my feet, prompted to meet him on equal ground.

  136. The stream once more drowsed and whispered; the hum of the mountain bees rose sleepily.

  137. Then she threw her head straight up and rose on her hind legs, pivoting about and striking with her fore feet.

  138. In the end he tossed the cigarette stub away and rose to his feet.

  139. From either side rose the drowsy purr of mowing-machines, punctuated by occasional sharp cries of the men who were gathering the hay-crop.

  140. And Paul shrugged his shoulders and strolled off down the briar-rose path.

  141. On the western side of the valley the hills rose green and dark, but the eastern side was already burned brown and tan by the sun.

  142. But it was a corpse that knew its resurrection, for the man rose suddenly on one elbow and gazed across at his hillside.

  143. But his blue eyes were shining with desire as he rose to his feet.

  144. The nearer lap rose abruptly from the plain like a rocky coast.

  145. The ground took a slight dip at this juncture, then rose abruptly up for about seventy or eighty feet like an acutely slanting roof.

  146. It was paved with water-worn smooth rocks between patches of yellow sand, and rose in a series of steppes.

  147. The fierce African sun was pouring down its rays and heat on this vast mass of vegetation, from which rose a film of unwholesome gas, that softened the tops of the trees until they seemed like a great ocean of blended tones.

  148. He looked at her reproachfully as he rose to his feet.

  149. Solemnly and darkly this combined mass of building and foliage, with the delicate filigree tracings of palm trees and other exotics, rose against the declining moon.

  150. Great trunks festooned with tendrils rose and spread over their heads hundreds of feet.

  151. It was a considerable shock to Ned's nerves, and he rose a little chalky about the gills.

  152. These cliffs in front of them rose into the most fantastic shapes and pinnacles.

  153. At night cold exhalations rose from the slimy soil and chilled them to the marrow.

  154. One of the Boer-like men rose lazily and walked over to his horse; then mounting, he cantered easily off into the dusk.

  155. However, seeing that it was a magnificent specimen, and appeared jet black as it lay stretched out, Cocoeni rose and went over to skin it.

  156. Kneeling down he took off his boot, and secreted the precious bit of paper inside; then he rose up with a bright and proud light gleaming in his eyes.

  157. Fancy their supporters waiting for permission before they rose to help their heroes!

  158. Next morning they rose all in a healthy and energetic condition.

  159. Pound after pound to the square inch the pressure slowly rose until I felt sure the drums of my ears would burst.

  160. One by one the other occupants of the room rose and sidled out, leaving us alone with the Gay Cat.

  161. As first the state swung one way, then another, our hopes rose and fell.

  162. As he rose and walked about the room, still talking, he salaamed and bowed.

  163. An angry growl rose from one or two of the more quick-witted men.

  164. Then he suddenly rose and put on his hat and coat.

  165. At last he rose and faced us, almost as if in triumph.

  166. He afterwards rose through the various ranks, till in 1796 he was appointed general of brigade, and sent to join the army of Italy.

  167. It was almost one o'clock before the fireworks were concluded, and nearly an hour later before Peter Parley could make his way home; and the sun rose high in heaven before he awoke next morning.

  168. Some of them in the form of boats, which in the course of their movements rose and sunk alternately so as to imitate the motion of a vessel on the water, seemed particularly ingenious and appeared to be in constant request.

  169. In 1839, he rose a step higher, and for two seasons was master of the Commodore Lawrence.

  170. In 1858, he became a member of the Cleveland Light Guards and rose to become a lieutenant in that organization.

  171. He rose and spoke with difficulty and in a weak voice, and few words.

  172. He seldom rose above the even tenor of his discourse, but never fell to commonplace, was generally interesting and occasionally eloquent.

  173. His first experience in Akron was as a clerk, from which he rose to the position of merchant on his own account, carrying on business until 1856.

  174. Rose and Jimmie told of the fun to be had at Christmas Tree Cove--how there were shallow wading places, deeper pools for bathing, and little nooks where one could fish.

  175. They played with Rose and Jimmie, they waded in the water, they sailed little boats, and they made houses in the sand.

  176. Your mother was getting worried, but Rose and Jimmie Madden said they'd seen you come up into these woods, and I thought I'd find you here.

  177. Three days after the strange find, when Bunny, Sue, and Harry were playing with Rose and Jimmie Madden near the bungalow one afternoon, Uncle Tad came up from the village with the mail.

  178. You can't see your way very well, and once Rose and I got lost.

  179. Sometimes Rose and I go out with my father when he's fishing or digging clams," said the Christmas Tree Cove lad.

  180. It will be no trouble at all, and Rose and Jimmie will be glad to see them.

  181. Rose Toilet Vinegar: This toilet vinegar is made by taking one ounce of dried rose leaves, pouring over them half a pint of white wine vinegar, and letting stand for two weeks.

  182. If the eyes are hot and watery use hot water which has been poured over rose leaves.

  183. Then strain, throwing rose leaves away, and add half a pint of rose-water.

  184. By putting in the tiniest suggestion of finely powdered carmine you can get the cream powder, and by putting in still more you will have the rose or pink tint.

  185. The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odor which doth in it live.


  186. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    achievement; annulet; armory; arms; azure; badge; bandeau; bar; baton; bearings; bend; billet; blazon; blush; button; canton; chain; charge; chevron; chief; cockatrice; collar; color; coronet; crescent; crest; crimson; cross; crown; decoration; device; difference; dress; eagle; emblem; ensign; ermine; escutcheon; fasces; field; figurehead; file; flower; flush; fret; fur; garland; glow; helmet; heraldry; label; lion; livery; lozenge; mace; mantle; marking; medal; metal; motto; nose; nozzle; ordinary; pale; pigment; pin; pink; primrose; quarter; quartering; redden; regalia; ring; rose; rosy; rouge; sable; salmon; scutcheon; shamrock; shield; snout; staff; swastika; symbol; tartan; thistle; tie; tincture; unicorn; uniform; verge; wand; wine; wreath


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rose again; rose again from the; rose and; rose before; rose color; rose early; rose from; rose from his chair; rose from the dead; rose from the table; rose garden; rose tree; rose water; rose window