Similar words: rise, arise, comprise, sunrise, surprise, memorise, surprised, summarise. Meaning: [raɪz] adj. (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon.
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(151) House prices had risen astronomically.
(152) The cost of electricity has risen in our area.
(153) The rate of inflation has risen beyond 5%.
(154) These figures, too, have risen over the past generation.
(155) Christ is risen from the dead.
(156) Incomes have risen considerably in recent years.
(157) But Alice was the only one of the Pritchetts who had, from all accounts, risen above her station in life.
(158) In fact, one way and another the food is very aptly named, having risen from the ashes in two senses!
(159) Only among girls aged 14-16 have reported convictions and cautions risen proportionately.
(160) But why should this once lowly dessert have risen to such epicurean realms?
(161) Prostate cancer has risen by 200 %, testicular cancer in young men by 300 %.
(162) The Bloomberg Indiana Index has risen almost 17 percent since it was started in September 1994 with a base value of 100.
(163) Prices have risen, on average, £100 per acre with some farms making 25 percent more than the asking price.
(164) Too few of his greatest paintings are sold at auction to be indexed but appear to have risen at least twice as fast.
(165) The price has risen by 119p since Caradon announced a possible bid on 31 August.
(166) Council tenants' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million, the Audit Commission reveals.
(167) The problem is a temporary one, the analyst added, even though fuel prices have risen this month.
(168) The floor of the chamber was obscured by a silver mist that had risen since their arrival.
(169) At its peak in early December(sentencedict.com), the index had risen as much as 54. 3 percent.
(170) The number of divorcees remarrying in church has risen steadily since such weddings were sanctioned in 1981.
(171) Since February, the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond has risen to nearly 7 percent from less than 6 percent.
(172) I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis
(173) This year, the phoenix has risen from its ashes, a phoenix in brighter plumage than he has ever worn before.
(174) The proportion of service sector jobs within the economy as a whole, however, has risen over time.
(175) The number of former council tenants who have bought their homes has risen to 1.4 million.
(176) Inequality Building society mortgage arrears have risen considerably in the last few years.
(177) Sea levels have risen and fallen with the coming and going of the ice ages as they have everywhere else.
(178) During the past decade, state expenditure on prisons has risen by nearly a third.
(179) Overall complaints about car boot sales have risen from virtually nil to around ten a week in just two years.
(180) Since they had already risen from the dead, they were now to live like angels, transcending their sexuality.