Sentence examples for rises onto from inspiring English sources

For his opening solo he rises onto his elbows and wrists, gradually making his way to his feet by balancing on top of his bent toes.

Her style suits some steps — she is bright in a brisk series of advancing relevés retirés in which one foot rises onto point while the other tucks up to knee height — but leaves many others bland.

Sometimes just tiny strokes — the way one of Tom's friends enters with a high-sailing jump; the slow, juicy way Becky rises onto point — are so timed that they become piercing.

3.11pm GMT 15th over England 78-2 (Ali 36, Root 17) After Root takes a single, Ali rises onto the cuticles of his toes to cross-bat over the top, but earning only two.

In the ad, a voice-over reads a rejection letter detailing why "the candidate" is not a good fit for ballet — the letter is a fiction, albeit one not unrelated to Copeland's career — while Copeland, who is wearing a sports bra and underwear, slowly rises onto pointe.

Leaving aside the question of how successive governments manage to shift the blame for premium rises onto industry when they have final say over them, let's just pause and consider this victory: a 0.5 percentage point lower increase than average, and a final rise that is nearly triple the rate of inflation.

Eventually, Sciscione stood and turned away from us, rising onto the balls of his feet.

Her feet were bare, and she rose onto her stubby toes to grip his arm.

But many of the men not only rose onto point but also hopped, turned, ran and balanced on point.

As it rose onto the riverbank, Mr. Radojkovic saw "two human legs and an arm" protruding from the back.

The upper body ripples, and rhythms of hip-hop are here combined with different forms of footwork (in sneakers), sometimes rising onto point.