"raise cheers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to applaud someone or something enthusiastically, for example, "The crowd rose to their feet to raise cheers for the champion boxer".
Stepping onto stage in Khartoum and launching into their first song, The Nightingales – Sudan's best-loved girl band – still raise cheers from adoring fans, 45-years after their debut.
Several should raise cheers from Guardian-reading teachers: free, high-quality pre-school education for disadvantaged children from age two; a reduced national curriculum; more freedom for teachers; an individual education plan for every child; free or subsidised horse-riding, piano or ballet lessons for children from poor homes.
The former Byker Grove duo are failsafe old pros and the nation's sweethearts, but while the enduring hilarity of the Let's Get Ready to Rumble windmill choreography will forever raise cheers from the crowd, this recruitment feels like the latest in an endless regurgitation of plodding past presenters and snug TV mainstays.
They advanced and retreated in stiff-legged scuttles, raising cheers with each flurry of blows.
When Tshembe tells him that the rape of a continent cannot be erased through a chat over cigarettes and whisky, the line raises cheers from the audience.
N. Connaughton: A calm mediator would be otherwise if this (anag. & lit).. J. Guiver: Sensational hit raised cheers in musical (ram + ta (rev). in melodic).
Left to his own devices, he then stripped off – raising cheers, wolf whistles and laughter from bystanders, as well as a cry of: "Well done mate".
At a rally outside Parliament on Tuesday, hunting horns tootled and well-bred voices raised cheers to welcome an impromptu recital by Samuel Payne (nicknamed "the President"), a black American singer who has become a prominent supporter of the protest.
Actually, there was more than one: Lamar Smith, the Texas congressman who heads the science, space and technology committee, raised cheers from the room when he said he proposed a 40% cut in Nasa's budget for earth sciences last week.
She meets with mixed success, raising cheers with Charles's "down with austerity!", yet pressing a little hard on her vital but overworked points about the representation of women both then and now.
These songs raised cheers from women who felt empowered by them, yet they, too, traveled to muddy gray areas of the psyche, where the battle of the sexes becomes a bloody mess.
