How to Use rising in a Sentence

rising

noun
  • He was the leader of an armed rising against the elected government.
  • However, that work was overshadowed by the state's rising and brighter stars.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Needless to say, Scorpio risings require a lot of patience in love.
    — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 24 June 2023
  • Drifting beside their rhythmic rising, our small group was awed into silence.
    — Cassidy Randall, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Hopefully the clouds break up enough to enjoy the rising of the Hunter’s Full Moon in the evening.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • In the richest nation in the world, an obscene—and rising—number of people cannot afford to feed themselves.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2021
  • My hope, garnered first in the night sky and fostered further in the rising of the sun, assuaged the fear pent up in every fiber of my being.
    — Michael Heim, al, 19 June 2020
  • New research has been pointing towards a stark future due to climate changes and the ongoing rising of the sea level.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The plants are now legally operating again, but, with the price of gas rising, fishermen are spending less and less time on the water.
    — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • These things come in waves and the East has many young rising starts while the West has some dominating players near retirement.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • Between the two, Happier Than Ever is the higher rising, but not by much.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Yes, that means that the latte makeup trend was basically designed in a lab to look amazing on Taurus risings.
    — Erika W. Smith, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025
  • That’s normal in the tropics, where there’s plenty of heat to go around, but the Arctic should be cold enough to better resist this large-scale rising of hot air.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In addition, a good panettone takes two to three days to make (a couple of lengthy risings explain that), whereas a loaf of simple peasant bread is merely that day’s work.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The world was awash in dollar income streams from Treasury debt, and with redemptions of dollars for gold rising, Nixon had to close the gold window.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • City officials said there has been some positive signs, with hotel occupancy and airport traffic rising.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Marzocchi says the data suggest that, for now, the tremors are more the result of gases pushing superheated water up through the earth, rather than magma rising.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
  • But Saturday’s exciting and dramatic near-miss signals a real rising.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • No kneading, no rising, no special equipment, just a few pantry staples and that signature Barefoot Contessa touch.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Still, with average hourly pay rising and unemployment rate steadily dropping, analysts say spending and growth could pick up, at least modestly, once omicron fades.
    — Anne D'innocenzio, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Dak Prescott is signed through 2025 but with the current financial market at quarterback rising, the time to speak about a new contract could happen again.
    — Dallas News, 28 July 2022
  • Capital markets are also outperforming, with the Tel Aviv 35 surging and the shekel rising.
    — Dan Mangan,emma Graham,hugh Leask,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • Long lines at food banks, combined with rising and issues, have raised the public’s awareness of how easily the average American can become food insecure.
    — Cara Rosenbloom, Washington Post, 5 June 2020
  • With cases of the more-infectious Delta variant rising and summer travel even more chaotic than usual, some people are having second thoughts about their vacations.
    — Allison Pohle, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • Its appearance on the horizon heralds the rising of the Dog Star Sirius, the brightest of all stars, about 17 minutes later.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Underlying the Persian Gulf itself is a basin filled with debris eroded from the rising of the Zagros Mountains.
    — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, the regime hardened its position, fearing a repeat of the anti-Bolshevik risings of the Civil War.
    — Anna Reid, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • As the third track on her upcoming album, rising, which drops May 20, the Chinese pop star takes a quick visit to her adolescence years — even at just 21.
    — James Dinh, Billboard, 3 May 2022
  • But with joblessness rising and unemployment payments shrinking, competition for such work has stiffened, and more people rely on it as their primary income source.
    — Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • There’s also a valuable dark-sky window around the month’s New Moon, the arrival of the summer solstice and the rising of the Strawberry Moon late in the month.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026

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