RAISE in a Sentence

Learn RAISE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
402 example sentences for RAISE, such as:
1. But she did not raise her head.
2. It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.
3. Gradually raise your body into an upright position.
4. The company said that it was constrained to raise prices.
5. We're trying to raise money to help children with cancer.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RAISE
raise
 v.  raise in rank or condition
 v.  cause to become alive again
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She looked up at him languidly, as though her lids were weighted with sleep and it cost her an effort to raise them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  The thought of the animal's suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  She shouted for her impatiently, knowing she could raise her voice with impunity, as Ellen was in the smokehouse, measuring out the day's food to Cookie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  He would raise his brows in that nasty way he always had when she even mentioned Ashley's name and, like as not, would refuse to give her the hat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  She wanted to pray but she could not raise her eyes to Heaven.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  When the night was still, it was too still--as though the tree frogs, katydids and sleepy mockingbirds were too frightened to raise their voices in the usual summer-night chorus.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  Aunt Pittypat is too old to raise a child and Honey and India are sweet but--I want you to have my baby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  But she did not raise her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  She knew that she should kill one of the shoats but she put it off from day to day, hoping to raise them to maturity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  If I pay up this time, they'll raise the taxes higher next time till they drive me out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  If she were a man she would have that mill, if she had to mortgage the store to raise the money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Wade and Uncle Peter retired to the carriage house and Cookie kept to her kitchen and forebore to raise her voice to praise the Lord in song.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Abandoned negro children ran like frightened animals about the town until kind-hearted white people took them into their kitchens to raise.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  She brought to bear, too, all the charm of smile and glance she possessed but they were wasted, for he did not raise his eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  They did not even raise their eyes as she dismounted from the buggy but Johnnie turned toward her, carelessly dragging off his hat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
Example Sentence: (192 in 13 pages)
1  This boom in adult education, in turn, helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
2  The project will only go ahead if they can raise the necessary finance.
3  Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
4  Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
5  He had various ideas on how to raise capital for the project.
6  Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.
7  Gradually raise your body into an upright position.
8  The yearly campaign to raise funds for the Red Cross is already under way.
9  They raffled a bottle of whisky to raise money for cancer research.
10  We're trying to raise money to help children with cancer.
11  The company said that it was constrained to raise prices.
12  I waited, hoping for an opportune moment to discuss the possibility of a raise.
13  Several of the points you raise do not belong in this discussion.
14  Several famous alumni have agreed to help raise money for the school's restoration fund.
15  It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.