Sentence examples for rise around him from inspiring English sources

The flames and smoke of hell itself rise around him – but is he a damned soul or a devil?

He watched enrollment double, watched the university literally rise around him, and he decided that "some things were more important than trying to climb the ladder".

Finishing his second year in New York, Sather has seen other Old Six teams like Montreal, Chicago and Boston rise around him.

If the conversation edges toward areas in which he feels ill at ease or unwilling to commit himself, burglar alarms are triggered off, defensive reflexes rise around him like an invisible stockade, and you hear the distant baying of guard dogs.

Ashley's sights remain set on staying in the top 10, selling profitably and sitting on the club like a London property tycoon watching the TV rights market rise around him, all the while providing a global billboard for the world's most bizarrely overexposed cut-price tracksuit shop.

Wages began to rise around 2006 as the migration of rural workers to Guangdong ebbed.

People are seeing smoke rise around Tripoli.

As water rises around him, he struggles to break free.

For two hours, the water rose around him.

Less than 20 minutes later the water was rising around him.

As the water rose around him, he said he called his wife and his parents.