Sentence examples for raise a crowd from inspiring English sources

He can still raise a crowd.

In the old days, it wasn't hard to raise a crowd from the Islamic radicals on campus; but most of the radicals are secular humanists now, and so the crowd has to be bused in from mosques around town.

The candidates for mayor could barely find an issue or raise a crowd in this confident and contented city, while a poll published one month ago found that fully two-thirds of New Yorkers expected life to be as good or better.

John McCain was supposed to fly out to an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to counteract the video images of Barack Obama raising a crowd of two hundred thousand people in Berlin, and give a speech about how wonderfully safe offshore drilling could be.

With arms waving and voices raised, a packed crowd joined Eddie Vedder singing, "Oh, oh, I'm still alive" at Irving Plaza on Friday night.

Wilshere appeared to raise a finger towards the crowd on 68 minutes after disagreeing with a decision to award City a goal kick at Etihad Stadium.

Wilshere appeared to raise a finger towards the crowd on 68 minutes after disagreeing with a decision to award City a goal kick.

In a riotous hour, they namecheck civil rights heroes Dr King and Rosa Lee Parks, and get the whole crowd to raise a left fist for Sinn Féin.

He can attract crowds and raise a lot of money.

On the other side of the stadium, "Rand Slam" and "Take Me Out to the Paul Game" banners were raised by a crowd of at least twenty Rand Paul staffers.

At one point, police officers advanced on protesters with their weapons raised, while a crowd of civilians behind them chanted "Sisi, Sisi!" Clashes continued in other neighbourhoods late into the night, while festivities in Tahrir lasted until at least midnight.