Sentence examples for the crowd raise from inspiring English sources

She puts up quite a charm offensive: plunging into the crowd and reappearing wearing a fez; addressing them as "my darlings"; dragging audience members on stage for selfies; appearing to be on verge of tears when the crowd raise their mobile phones during her cover of Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love.

Breaks between songs are excuses to chant "DEAF HEH-VEN" repeatedly, and – as the band kick off with impressive new track Brought to the Water and work their way through 2013's critically acclaimed Sunbather – the crowd raise their hands in raptures.

A majority of the crowd raised hands.

The crowd raised a questioning eyebrow.

A man in the crowd raised his beer up high, toasting him.

No one in the crowd raised a hand to give a speech supporting Michele Bachmann.

The Fates walked among the crowd, raising lanterns above their heads, harmonizing about hurricanes and shantytowns.

Navratilova turned to the crowd, raising her hand, then patted it over her heart.

The coach tipped his trademark baseball cap to acknowledge the crowd, raising the volume a little more.

But the crowd raised the season average for nine matches to 16,583, which would be the best season average for the club since 2004.

With that, the crowd raised their voices in an approximation of the sort of deep, reverberating tone that a large gong might produce when struck by a mallet.