Sentence examples for raised like a from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

At the start Kyle Robinson slides toward the audience on his stomach, elbows raised, like an insect.

Strung together over coming years, however, those snapshots will show a new building being raised, like an unfolding flower in a nature film.

Its dazzling white bedroom nearly stole the show, with the bed raised, like an altar, on a stepped platform, guarded by swans and surmounted by a diaphanous baldachin.

And the PreCheck lanes use the old-style metal-detector portals, rather than those much-disliked body-scan machines that require you to stand still with your arms raised like an arrestee suspected of armed robbery.

Standing straight, arms raised like an conductor, the surgeon, Tom Carrell, issues commands to a Kinect sensor perched beneath a monitor displaying a 3D image of the patient's damaged aorta.