Sentence examples for i rose a from inspiring English sources

Instead, after I rose a bit, I felt this sudden kick, like a kick to the gut (except I didn't have a gut), and I shot down.

Reviewer Ellen Lippmann calls "Still I Rise" a "proud, even defiant statement of behalf of all Black people".

"She wouldn't publish anyone whose writing she didn't love," said Susan Cooper, author of "The Dark Is Rising," an acclaimed five-book series of children's novels published in 1973.

"I rose to a certain altitude and the winds got pretty intense.

As I rose to a couple of metres below the surface, I saw the problem too late: the shallow water was carpeted with mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca).

No doubt they thought me very rude when I rose after an hour and had to take my leave.

When I started at Wal-Mart in 1992 in California, I rose from an hourly trainee to salaried store manager in less than four years.

I rose from an onstage coffin for Satan Klaus.

I rose to hand her a cigarette and my lighter and to look into her strange blue eyes.

After a while, I rose to my feet.

Rahman is a double nominee, also earning a nod for original song for "If I Rise," a collaboration with Dido and Rollo Armstrong.