raise Examples

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Examples of raise in a Sentence

Examples of raise
1. New ways I must attempt, my groveling name To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
2. I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens.
3. The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring.
4. The boss gave me a raise.
5. to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself ‎
6. to raise a wall, or a heap of stones ‎
7. to raise Sandy Hook light ‎
8. We need to raise the motivation level in the company. ‎
9. to raise the quality of the products; to raise the price of goods ‎
10. to raise a lot of money for charity; to raise troops ‎
Examples of raises
1. The comparison to “Gatsby” raises some uncomfortable questions: What if a man with such tortuously denied desires rose up not in clear proximity of the American Dream but far from it, in a prospectless and corrupt society?
2. Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
3. The player to your left immediately raises you the minimum by clicking the raise button. This action immediately suggests that he's on a draw
4. She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.
5. “If KSR raises the bar for nonobviousness, Judge Stein may need to rethink his conclusion that the Plavix patent is not obvious,” said C. Scott Hemphill, an associate professor of law at Columbia University .
6. The use of trichinopoly wirework (which was also employed on the 'safety chain' for the Tara brooch) raises the question of the date of the Gaulcross hoard of Pictish silver from Grampian.
7. Every time I hear him talk, he just raises my hackles.
8. As backwater from Lake Erie raises the level of Lake St. Clair, so backwater from Lake St. Clair raises the level of Lake Michigan-Huron.
Examples of raised
1. He was raised in a very prosperous household.
2. Looking at pupil attainment, the study found that students with the same Key Stage 3 scores could have their GCSE grade raised or lowered by up to half a grade as a result of being placed in a higher or lower set.
3. He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart.
4. And the picture's tints grew deeper, Redder, blacker, as I gazed, And my weak knees smote together, And my eyes grew dim and glazed, At the vision's spectred horrors From the graves of vengeance raised.
5. A hovering, storklike balance with the body curling round an unseen sphere--one bent leg raised halfway up in front, bent arms and torso describing the space.
6. [ … ] they require that the pigs be humanely raised and free of subtherapeutic antibiotics. “
7. The childhood raised in various swellegant locales around the world: London, Rio, Paris, wherever his mother (nee Margherita Agnelli) and his father, Alain Elkann (and later his stepfather, Serge de Pahlen), wanted to be.
8. Bulgaria, inevitably, raised the tempo in the opening moments of the second half and keeper Joe Hart was forced into his first meaningful action to block a deflected corner - but England were soon threatening to add to their goal tally.
9. He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.
10. A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
Examples of raising
1. Myths and religions often ascribe natural forces to supernatural beings, as acts of (a) god(s) or hero(es) shaking the earth, raising a storm or flood etc.
2. to help at a raising
3. The students were out raising funds for rag week.
4. 1990, Bonnie Zimmerman, The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction, 1969-1989‎, p. 215: From consciousness-raising to coming out stories to twelve-step programs, the personal narrative has always held a place of honor in our community.
5. She backed out of organizing the fund-raising.
6. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.
7. If those boys have been out drinking and raising Cain again tonight...