Sentence examples for rose rather from inspiring English sources

The bearded lock could easily have been pulling on the red rose rather than the three feathers at Twickenham.

But the depressing evidence of the last eight years is that racial resentment actually rose rather than fell while Obama was in the Oval Office.

More surveyors reported that rents rose rather than fell in the three months to the end of April, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics).

In an about-face, the National Association of Realtors said yesterday that existing-home sales rose rather than fell in January and attributed the reporting error to a computer problem.

I fought clear and rose rather breathless and bruised.

The report said 16% more chartered surveyors reported that prices rose rather than fell.

The balance of firms expecting business to rise rather than fall rose from +44%to+46%6%.

It is, in the end, the mark of a country rising rather than falling.

The classic 007 bass line rises, rather obviously, in the piano.

As the population density of urban areas has increased, so has the need for buildings that rise rather than spread.

The company hopes that St Mary's proves the case for the need for sustainability standards to rise, rather than fall.