9 sentences with “raising”

A car passed by quickly, raising a cloud of dust.

They cannot move the yacht without first raising the anchor.

In raising our children we relive our childhood.

Instead of raising his sons away from the capital, training them as future rulers, Suleiman had his children raised in the inner palace.

-I wore handcuffs for so long," Tashi told the group, "that when they finally took them off, I couldn't raise one hand without automatically raising the other. We just wanted our country back.

The sultan also continued the traditional Ottoman practice of raising his sons outside the capital, training them in politics and warfare to ensure that each was well prepared to take the throne.

There's no need to be too obvious or effusive in these things of greeting strangers. Enormous things are said by simply raising the index finger from the car, and a simple nod of the head is eloquent in its sobriety.

After being chased by a steel whip that lashed out at my feet, raising its head and squirting me with scalding water, it goes without saying how cautiously I now approach any shower that isn't firmly attached to the wall.

Idleness' was still considered dangerous and sinful, however, so middle-class women became increasingly involved in raising their own children, maintaining the social relations that showed they belonged to the more educated classes, and becoming involved in charity.