Sentence examples for raise like a from inspiring English sources

And she was worried that she was gonna raise, like, a psychopath!

"This privileged social forum is one of the lights we can raise like a torch to light the road to change in Latin America," he said.

"I don't think anybody now can hope to be the nominee of the Democratic or Republican Party if they can't raise like a quarter of a billion dollars," Carter said in an interview with AARP published Thursday.

Groupon, a daily deals site on the forefront of corporate wackiness, said in a press release earlier this year that it had raised "like, a billion dollars" in its latest financing round.

Carberry leapt up to race off with arm raised like a Premier League striker.

(Groupon, for example, raised $950 million on Monday; the company put out a hilariously headlined press release: "Groupon Raises, Like, a Billion Dollars").

Limerick's ruined theatre is raised like a spectre in Dan Canham's haunting, exquisite dance-theatre piece.

He found two young brothers who had been secretly invited to party with an 18-year-old relative he had raised like a daughter and her younger friend.

In the process, the expectations of a team, a town and a tribe are being raised like a fist in triumph.

The September morning sun continued to shine on the Statue of Liberty, her torch raised like a beacon, a symbol of all that is best in America.

Then there is the eerie hush before once again the noise raises like a one of those fancy bridges that can open up.