How to Use riser in a Sentence

riser

noun
  • The school choir stood on the risers for the concert.
  • Beck said from the riser on the field after the game.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Here are a few stock risers and fallers from the day.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Five riser blocks of seats surround the round stage area.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
  • To do this, tape off the top lip and bottom edge and paint each riser.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Turner has been the fastest riser.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The cams are mounted on a very stiff riser rather than at the end of the limbs.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Here’s the night’s stock risers and fallers.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Ryan finds out that Wahlberg is an early riser.
    — Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Chairs would have to be arranged on a set of risers on the altar.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • He was seen as one of the potential fastest risers in his class.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Early risers aren't left out of Gruene's food scene.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
  • Onyedim was one of the biggest draft risers this year.
    — Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This package comes with a red-dot sight, riser pads, and arrows.
    — Anthony Licata, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • For late risers or those who want to avoid the rush, there are still advantages.
    — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
  • His last name, Eiden, is the third-fastest riser on the boy name list.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 May 2024
  • Liz leaps down from the risers and runs out to drag the giant totem and move the tables.
    — David Gordon, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The cabinet stands 4 feet tall, and doesn't come with a riser.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Push the feet back on the tread so the riser (the vertical part of the step) keeps them in place.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Four chairs sit upstage on a riser for the quartet of elders.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Cut the risers to length and fasten them to the stringers with 2 1/2-in.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2017
  • The sturdy third baseman has been one of the bigger risers on draft boards this spring.
    — Richard Morin, azcentral, 18 May 2018
  • The shortage of sleep is most likely felt by early risers, and not so much by night owls.
    — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But for most all but the early risers, late sunset is what makes the days this time of the year seem so long.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 26 June 2019
  • The full story has more on the offseason’s nine risers.
    — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Made of oak hardwood, the risers, treads, and handrail are stained in contrasting tones.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 21 June 2018
  • Each band’s gear had been set up on dollies and risers, secured under forty-foot-long tents.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The depth of the tread plus twice the riser height should equal 26 to 27 inches.
    — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Maluma first appeared atop a riser near the back of the stage, amid smoke, pyro and ear-piercing screams.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Then, lay the square on the 2 x 12 with the gauges pressed against the board's edge and mark the tread and riser.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2021

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