Sentence examples for rises around it from inspiring English sources

The house is remarkably similar to the house in Up, an animated film about an elderly man who refuses to move as a giant building rises around it on three sides.

The sunken wooden bar in the middle looks like the hold of a ship, and the restaurant rises around it, with paintings and photographs on one side and an orange felt pool table surrounded by matching airport-terminal seats on the other.

While dingy enamel-and-metal exterior and faded linoleum countertops render Curley's conspicuously out-of-place amid the new high-end bistros and commercial high rises around it, Marion Hjorth, a patron, said Curley's serves a need.

Last Friday morning, a wobbly W train sat atop the machine, one of its wheels slowly turning as blue-black smoke rose around it and small steel shavings fell below.

Other, finer creations have risen around it, most notably three stunning numbers directly behind, which feature the standard accoutrements that attend wealth these days: namely, outdoor hot tubs.

"The water had started rising around it," Mr. Schwertz said, "but we can't confirm the status of the building at this time".

The Earth Institute at Columbia University will present "Don't Be Sad, Flying Ace!," a play about a dog that sits on top of his doghouse watching the waters rise around it.

Once it was threatened by physical deterioration, and then by property development: since the fall of communism hulks of lumpen speculation have risen around it, and it seemed all too likely that the house would disappear beneath another one.

Robert Schindler, the father of Terri Schiavo, who was at the center of a closely watched right-to-die fight and a political storm that rose around it, died Saturday in St .Petersburg, Fla.

The 100-year-old cottage – first made famous when its owner, Edith Macefield, refused to sell as a towering shopping center rose around it – has fallen into disrepair and was on the verge of being torn down.

And I would ask them to tie a yellow rose around it and do like 'Frozen' and 'Let It Go.'".