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Example sentences for "surging"

Lexicographically close words:
surgeons; surgery; surges; surgical; surgically; surgit; surintendant; surlily; surliness; surly
  1. The beloved Faith is surging forward on all fronts.

  2. They dismounted, and, pressing their way through the surging mass on the bridge, approached the group under the pines.

  3. Casting a hurried glance backward, she saw the grayish-white storm-sheet come rushing over the sloping expanse of surging pines, and heard its dull heavy roar over the rattle of the aerial artillery which echoed and re-echoed above her.

  4. Then suddenly the room turned a shambles, a red surging mass of hands that tore, of thrown missiles, of shattering glass, through which sounded a shrill whistle and the tattoo of a thorn-baton on the pavement outside.

  5. It filled the hall with electric feeling, surging in waves that overtopped all decorum and made the hour significant and momentous.

  6. For eleven months they have heard the almost continuous howl of a terrible tempest surging and whirling around and above them.

  7. On they came, the great cart surging heavily, like a bark in a stormy sea; and now it cleft the dense ocean that filled the Place, and I could descry the lineaments wherein the stiffened lines of death were already marked.

  8. A surging movement in the crowd told that some event had occurred; it was Massena and his staff, who were proceeding to a watch-tower in the bastion, from whence a wide range of country could be seen.

  9. Aren't we happy," said Ingeborg one evening when they were strolling after supper along the path through the rye-field, all the old fearlessness and confidence in life surging in her again.

  10. The same mountains showed us other outlines and assumed new expressions, and bold, proud Teck rose from the foam of blossoms at its feet, like a stern rock towering above surging waters.

  11. He was a pathetic figure, Arthur Gideon, the intolerant precisian, fighting savagely against the tide of loose thinking that he saw surging in upon him, swamping the world and drowning facts.

  12. Something very strong and yet reticent about her surging body.

  13. Now it is a deep cave with stalactites hanging from the roof, and little swelling hillocks on the floor, and, over all, a delicate, golden glow surging and fading.

  14. Down the horse sprang into the water, until it was surging over the pommel of the saddle.

  15. Together they ran; but before they reached it they were wading and slipping and surging through a torrent that overflowed the cliff, and poured in the wave of a waterfall over the brink and thundered upon the rocks beneath.

  16. There was less of a dense black veil before her eyes, less surging in her ears.

  17. To Stella's dazzled eyes it seemed a surging sea of unfamiliar faces.

  18. But yet the darkness was full of horrors; unseen monsters leaped past her as in a surging torrent, devils' hands clawed at her, devils' mouths cried unspeakable things.

  19. It bent down from the sky to tell me of its presence; it came surging up behind me; and one awful word was on its face and in its voice.

  20. Nor have I ever regretted for one hour that resolution, come to in solitude, carried out amid the surging life of men, to devote to that sacred cause every power of brain and tongue that I possessed.

  21. How strong were the feelings surging in my heart may be seen in a brief extract from an article published second week of January, 1885: "Christian charity?

  22. My first experience of an angry crowd was on that day as we drove to the court; the streets were barricaded, the soldiers were under arms, every approach to the court crowded with surging throngs.

  23. And when from the mountain side The sunshines of May Charm the snows away-- The torrent's impulsive tide Mingles its turbid strength with mine, Marking the thicket with surging line.

  24. And I mourn me now for the thicket's green In the grove where our surging line was see.

  25. A black stream of Cheechakos were surging across Lindeman; then I realised the greatness of the other advancing army, and the vastness of the impulse that was urging these indomitable atoms to the North.

  26. Suddenly a mob of terror-goaded men comes surging down the street.

  27. For it seems as if a glance at a child would have revealed that the truth lay in neither doctrine, so obvious is the surging of specific native activities.

  28. It is activity surging forward to break through what dams it up.

  29. From the Madeleine to the Place de la Bastille, this broad thoroughfare was a compact surging sea of human beings.

  30. But all this was only a slice in the carnival pie, for Montmartre was a bedlam, and the boulevards were still packed and as jolly as they had been when I crossed that thoroughfare on the top of a bus and saw a surging sea of color.

  31. I will make the money part of it all right,” said Allison kindly, a great pity for the unfortunate girl surging through her heart.

  32. In a kind of cold despair, he stooped, reached for a board which lay near, and retreating a little, stood upon it, watching the surging water in its heedless career.

  33. A mighty promontory, rugged and bare, thrust its scarped front into the surging current.

  34. It was a trifle; but there was a touch of tender thoughtfulness in this reminder to the surging multitude that they must not forget the man who was being borne to the grave.


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