6 sentences with 'rising'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rising and other words derived from it.
• « In 1989, faced with a rising tide of violence and an epidemic of crack addiction, the citizens of Kansas City, Missouri, adopted the Community Supported Anti-Drug Tax (CSAT), a small levy on the sale that raises $16 million a year. »
• « Looking out a window, he saw flames rising up the outside of the building to the upper floors through the garbage chute. »
• « Gigantic statues of the gods stand there, and twice a year, the rising sun shines through the entrance and directly illuminates three of them, while the god of the underworld remains in shadow. »
• « Louis XIV continued a long and dazzling rule, rising to the height of royal power and prestige not only in France but throughout Europe. »
• « In capitalist economies this phenomenon often leads to "bubbles" of rising values that then collapse. »
• « The bourgeoisie were the rising middle classes, the factory and business owners, the bankers and all those with direct control over industrial production. The proletariat was the industrial working class. »