7 sentences with 'risen'
Example sentences and phrases with the word risen and other words derived from it.
• « By mid-morning on that December 5, 1991, the temperature had risen to five or six degrees Celsius. »
• « Napoleon was a great contrast. On the one hand, he was a man of the French Revolution. He had achieved fame only through the opportunities afforded him by the revolutionary armies; as a member of a minor family of Corsican nobility, he would never have risen to prominence in the pre-revolutionary era. »
• « Women who, against all odds, had risen to positions of note were constantly attacked and belittled; one example is the inaugural address of a new female scientist at the University of Athens in the early 20th century, whose speech was interrupted by male students shouting "back to the kitchen! »
• « In the end, the "Dreyfus affair" culminated in the exoneration and release of Dreyfus, but not before anti-Semitism had risen to one of the defining characteristics of right-wing illiberal and authoritarian politics in France. »
• « Meanwhile, in Maryland, George Smyth, 49, had risen at 4:30 a.m. to go to his job in Virginia. »
• « He began to advance towards the capital, but when he reached Merlo he decided to march north to help the Unitarians who had risen up there. »
• « New York's population soared. In 1790, it was 33,000; by 1820, it had reached 200,000; and by 1825, it had risen to 270,000. New opportunities for wealth seemed within anyone's reach. »