Sentence examples for risen like a from inspiring English sources

One eyebrow had risen, like a little peaked cap.

A squirrel's tail is "fluffed and risen like a soft and oversized stinger".

When we're told at the end that Tangshan has risen like a phoenix from the ashes, it's understood that more than just Tangshan is in play.

Bolaño, the prodigious Chilean writer who died at age 50 in 2003, has posthumously risen, like a figure in one of his own splendid creations, to the summit of modern fiction.

Mr. Bush also spoke during the question and answer section of his astonishment at Beijing, where grand neon swaths of new building and hotels have risen like a mix of Hong Kong and Las Vegas.

Those abandoned warehouses are loft apartments, galleries or lounge bars; the city streets echo to the sound of trendy young things drinking overpriced spirits, and a revived shopping centre has risen like a phoenix from the IRA's destruction of the Arndale Centre in 1996.

Spending has recently been rising, "like a train" in Mr Boeri's words, by a steady 2% a year in real terms.

The music rises like a waft of honey.

"She's singing about rising like a phoenix," Adams said.

Her blond hair rises like a candle flame.

She bends over like a fetus; she rises like a tsunami.