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  • A trucker emerges, stretches, and heads toward the truckstop bathrooms, leaving the door ajar.   (source)
    emerges = comes out
  • The patrolman emerged into the glaring daylight.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • He was emerging from years in which the only constants were violence and loss, and his letters show how much he feared something terrible befalling Cynthia.   (source)
    emerging = coming out
  • And from the middle of the misty, domed web, a spider the size of a small elephant emerged, very slowly.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • Night had nearly fallen by the time I emerged from the top of the serac slope onto the empty, wind-scoured expanse of the high glacial plateau.   (source)
  • Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees.   (source)
    emerge = come out
  • It emerged a split part of a second later.   (source)
    emerged = came out of, or appeared
  • A few minutes later he emerged from the field alone, got into his car, and left.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • The counterman emerged from the kitchen at the rear and sized them up expertly.   (source)
    emerged = came out (appeared)
  • She could go into a hotel restaurant, leave her own coat at the check, slip into the powder room, change. Frump up her hair, smudge her lipstick. Emerge as a different woman.   (source)
    emerge = come out
  • From one of the small doorways, a dog's head and shoulders emerged—   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • The flame-coloured carnivore emerged from beneath the tarpaulin and made for the hyena.   (source)
    emerged = came out of, or appeared
  • When he breathed, mist emerged.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • Tally pulled her shirt and jacket on before daring to emerge from the sleeping bag.   (source)
    emerge = come out of
  • Soon Garvey and Peter emerged from the cabin, both wearing their rubber boots and heavy jackets.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • The next afternoon at Mrs. Dubose's was the same as the first, and so was the next, until gradually a pattern emerged: everything would begin normally ... she would grow increasingly silent, then go away from us.   (source)
    emerged = appeared (or could be seen)
  • When he emerged, it was with a young Arab, dressed in white and gold.   (source)
    emerged = appeared (or came out)
  • At such times the ancestors of the clan who had been committed to Mother Earth at their death emerged again as egwugwu through tiny ant-holes.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • A few doors down, three men emerged from a cafe, tipsy with drink.   (source)
    emerged = came about
  • I said, and I now felt stronger, as if my true self had finally emerged.   (source)
    emerged = come out; or appeared
  • Ella emerged from the dining room.   (source)
    emerged = came out of, or appeared
  • But then, suddenly, the crayon meets with slight resistance, and letters, one after another, emerge magically on the page: ABIJAH CRAVEN, 1701-45.   (source)
    emerge = appear
  • Tita would never forget that sound, or the way her nephew's head had emerged, triumphant in his struggle for life.   (source)
    emerged = come out, or appeared
  • She emerged from the house minutes later with...   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • The smokestack and the ominous black curl emerging from it, dissipating against the bright blue sky, reminded her of something.   (source)
    emerging = coming out
  • Ender emerged at the top of the soldier efficiencies list.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • A new business emerged — cattle, pigs, and chickens started being stuffed full of corn in large factory-type operations called feedlots.   (source)
    emerged = appeared (came into being)
  • others have deeply buried anger that emerges after months with their mothers.   (source)
    emerges = comes out or appears
  • I could see them as they emerged from the gangway and came toward us along the keel catwalk.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • And that's when Wally emerged from his shell.   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • These were pictures I rushed to develop, holding my breath as they emerged before me.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • The memories are there--they must come out, they must emerge, they cannot be allowed to fester any longer.   (source)
    emerge = come out
  • It emerged in her dreams like a dark moon with figures leaping from its mouth,   (source)
    emerged = appeared or came out
  • They emerged from one story only to delve deep into another.   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation, probably in the wake of Mr Marshall, when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • At some point in the process, Mack attempted to emerge from his own pain and grief, at least with his family.   (source)
    emerge = come out
  • a sudden emergence into a clearing   (source)
    emergence = appearance as entering
  • But one running conversation did emerge: when Colton saw Jesus in heaven, what did he look like?   (source)
    emerge = come out; or appear
  • The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.   (source)
    emerges = appears (or comes out)
  • But her intended scream never emerges.   (source)
    emerges = comes out
  • "… I'm going to die here…. " He dragged me toward a hillock of snow from which emerged human shapes and ragged pieces of blanket.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • He lifts his head and watches her going away from him in a new mood which began to emerge when...   (source)
    emerge = appear, or come out
  • He grinned sheepishly, or stared in amazement, as if emerged from an astounding dream.   (source)
    emerged = having come out
  • It's Cedric, emerging from his room and blocking the doorway.   (source)
    emerging = coming out of
  • I explained our position, and that we certainly could not hope to emerge from the cave in daylight, unseen.   (source)
    emerge = come out of
  • For centuries, no great evil emerged, and we began to hope that we had finally succeeded!   (source)
    emerged = appeared
  • Alessandro wore a black robe, its only decoration his head emerging from the flat collar.   (source)
    emerging = coming out
  • From the shadows behind Loki's throne a figure emerged, gliding across the floor.   (source)
    emerged = appeared
  • ...certain realizations emerged, as if they too had a life, a schedule urging them into the realm of conscious knowledge.   (source)
    emerged = came out, or appeared
  • He could feel the motion pushing out of the damp earth into the sunshine--the yellow spotted snake the first to emerge, carrying this message on his back to the people.   (source)
    emerge = appear
  • and man began to emerge, to prove again his capacity for endurance and faithfulness.   (source)
  • His secret ambition had at last dared to emerge into the full light of consciousness.   (source)
  • From my reading, it seemed to me that Texas is emerging as a separate force and...   (source)
    emerging = appearing; or coming out
  • They emerged at last from the ravine into the full sunlight.   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night.   (source)
    emerged = appeared (newly able to be seen as night turned into day)
  • It was distressing to emerge from her inner temple and find these black desecrators howling with laughter before the door.   (source)
    emerge = come out
  • George passes his hand over his forehead, as though emerging from a dream, and with a complete change of matter, returning to realism, explains:   (source)
    emerging = coming out of
  • that love was now utterly remote, and he regretted that he had had no warning of the moment in which he had emerged from it for ever.   (source)
    emerged = come out of
  • After the glimpse I had had of the Martians emerging from the cylinder   (source)
    emerging = coming out
  • on emerging from the sewer, he was arrested.   (source)
  • We emerged from the wreck and glided into the open sea.   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • Pan emerged from the crowd.†   (source)
  • The entire international community had rallied to America's side once the scale of the disaster had become known, especially when it began to emerge exactly what had happened.†   (source)
  • A moment later, Sofia emerged, looking relieved.†   (source)
  • When they emerged, their faces were set and grim.†   (source)
  • A while later she emerged.†   (source)
  • Enough facts had emerged for us to know the seriousness of the situation, but the details were disjointed, contradictory, and confusing.†   (source)
  • Thomas squeezed his eyes against the blinding light of the sun as he emerged from the woods.†   (source)
  • But the real discovery was that our two stories together helped me to untangle some of the larger story of our generation of young men, boys who came of age during a historically chaotic and violent time and emerged to succeed and fail in unprecedented ways.†   (source)
  • I emerged from the store a few minutes later dressed in my new threads.†   (source)
  • Two men emerged from the jeep.†   (source)
  • A slim sheet with my answers emerges from the side.†   (source)
  • A newly emerging power will take over the existing symbols and degrade them over time in an attempt to erase their meaning.†   (source)
  • The surf sounded more distant but he took his bearings by the wind as well and after tottering on for the better part of an hour they emerged from the grass and seaoats and stood again on the dry sand of the upper beach.†   (source)
  • As we got out of the car, a tall man emerged from the trailer.†   (source)
  • The building that was once called the Sears Tower—we call it the Hub—emerges from the fog, a black pillar in the skyline.†   (source)
  • For instance, this morning she was saying "Gack!" over and over, which probably meant, "Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!"†   (source)
  • Another prehistoric sound emerged from somewhere near his chest.†   (source)
  • Heading out into the channel, she stayed underwater as long as she could, emerged briefly to gulp air, and dove under again.†   (source)
  • A corner of his mouth winked open and a silky rumple of smoke emerged, paused as if to be admired, then drifted off past his ear.†   (source)
  • She emerged from the bathroom with her cleaning gloves and a pail.†   (source)
  • Faces were beginning to emerge in the photographs on the sideboard.†   (source)
  • "Now don't you be worried, my honey" A voice emerged from among turned-up coat collar, stole, scarves, and hat, a voice like an unoiled gate, but somehow not unpleasant.†   (source)
  • Naiads emerged from the canoeing lake.†   (source)
  • An hour later, I emerge pink and soreheaded and thirsty.†   (source)
  • For another, they worked almost exclusively with nonlinear equations, in the emerging field called chaos theory.†   (source)
  • Stiff and sore, the four of us emerged from our sanctuary exhausted, thankful to still be alive.†   (source)
  • But the setting sun emerged from the trees behind them, and her breath caught in her throat as a spire, then three, then six more appeared, piercing the sky.†   (source)
  • As we, and others, emerged from the bushes, we saw a man run from the driver's seat to the sidewalk, where he vomited blood.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when they emerge, they mark a house by painting a big red X on the front door.†   (source)
  • Charlie asked me—emerging from the bush, zipping up his fly.†   (source)
  • A strategy was emerging from the calls that Dad received and made.†   (source)
  • Every day some new detail emerges—each storm drain, park bench, and hydrant in the model has its counterpart in the real world.†   (source)
  • A soldier emerged from the barracks.†   (source)
  • When the door swung open, and Dell and Quang-ha emerged, I got to my feet and followed Mai down the stairs.†   (source)
  • Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind walls and gates but emerged naturally from the town which had produced it.†   (source)
  • In the early 1900s with the Kingdom of Hawaii now a territory of the United States, strong young Hawaiian watermen emerged who reinvigorated the sport.†   (source)
  • When she emerged a few seconds later with a piece of pottery in each hand, he knew better than to offer to help her out of the water.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me if I don't curtsy," a voice says, emerging from a grove of white-spangled magnolia trees.†   (source)
  • The Bomb emerged from the stairwell, breathing hard, but looking fiercely satisfied.†   (source)
  • As dawn emerges in streaks of yellow, he finally falls asleep, his head on Dutchy's curled leg and his feet in my lap.†   (source)
  • Then my father shouted, "Look!" and I raised my head to see a towering mountain of rock emerge from the blank canvas before us.†   (source)
  • Then Judith emerged from her own musings long enough to explain.†   (source)
  • The same pattern emerged.†   (source)
  • A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood.†   (source)
  • So it's not as glamorous as emerging from a backstage, but they do look GREAT.†   (source)
  • One by one, her nine horrific heads emerged from the mist, staring at him with glowing yellow eyes, leering with dripping, glistening fangs.†   (source)
  • Cinder slowed when they'd put enough distance between them and the market, emerging from the maze of alleys.†   (source)
  • Here—and his hands touched grass—was a place to be in for the night, not far from the tribe, so that if the horrors of the supernatural emerged one could at least mix with humans for the time being, even if it meant ….†   (source)
  • You passed two days under City Hall and emerged gravely ill with fever and heaven knows what else.†   (source)
  • It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of night as he emerged from the steaming subway toward the firehouse world.†   (source)
  • I was in a state of shock, but the sight of her emerging over his shoulder like some terrible arachnid sunrise spurred me back to life.†   (source)
  • The crowd erupted again as the king, queen, and Maxon emerged.†   (source)
  • Keeping patient information confidential was emerging as a standard practice, but it wasn't law, so releasing it wasn't out of the question.†   (source)
  • They emerged into a wide open-plan computer bay.†   (source)
  • In the Frank family quarters, the first sleepy faces are beginning to emerge from their pillows.†   (source)
  • I'm sad for the little girl I used to be, and somehow her grief over the loss of Lesslie is emerging through me.†   (source)
  • Almost immediately, another talking toilet emerged, followed by another, and another, and another.†   (source)
  • "What?" said Boris, when I emerged.†   (source)
  • A man emerged from the kitchen.†   (source)
  • I open my mouth several times and have to shut it again after all that emerges is a high-pitched squeak.†   (source)
  • In single file the four men emerged onto a narrow causeway between reed beds.†   (source)
  • He emerges back up again.†   (source)
  • Then again, should she miraculously recover, emerging revitalized from her bedchamber, it would signal the end of Artemis's own extraordinary freedom.†   (source)
  • A girl that is not Kara emerges from the back of the car.†   (source)
  • Beth emerged from the basement, bag of pot and roiling papers in hand.†   (source)
  • A shadowy figure emerged at the opposite end.†   (source)
  • She sneered: No sociopath could emerge from there.†   (source)
  • As we emerged, several reporters started shouting questions at us.†   (source)
  • Faint smudges emerged from the darkness and advanced down the trail.†   (source)
  • I WAS WATCHING FROM THE ROOF ONE AFTERNOON when a group of roughly sixteen fully armed insurgents emerged from cover.†   (source)
  • You could see him coming from a distance, appearing out of nowhere like an angel, his silhouette seeming to rise from the ground in the simmering heat, though he actually emerged from one of the ramshackle houses that lined the road a hali:mile away.†   (source)
  • A short while later Tata Ndu emerged out of darkness.†   (source)
  • Even though her brother was three years older, Hana would sometimes emerge the winner.†   (source)
  • He tears it off and puts it somewhere inside the long black cloak he is wearing, and when his hand emerges it is holding the gleaming white metal sword.†   (source)
  • "No," said Lenar Hoyt, emerging from the darkness at the head of the wooden escalator which served as the main staircase, "I needed these."†   (source)
  • Eventually one emerged.†   (source)
  • An hour later Marilyn Beasley emerged with wonder on her face and a simple observation: "He knows it."†   (source)
  • The mujahideen has now emerged as the Taliban or al Qaeda.†   (source)
  • He emerged on Tenth Street.†   (source)
  • Worse had occurred too, although these revelations emerged only slowly.†   (source)
  • The central figure in this set of myths—the Fisher King figure—represents the hero as fixer: something in society is broken, perhaps beyond repair, but a hero emerges to put things right.†   (source)
  • Another box emerged, showing the waves at Rodeo Beach, a few miles down the Pacific coast.†   (source)
  • Nobody saw her emerge or came accidentally by.†   (source)
  • "There is no mistake, Corrie," he said as he emerged.†   (source)
  • , I saw her emerging from the teachers' lounge, Mr. Hartsfield in tow.†   (source)
  • Dad is emerging from the back door, pulling on a jacket.†   (source)
  • Restlessness, impermanence, and speed were embedded in the culture that soon emerged there, along with an openness to anything new.†   (source)
  • He discovered three things almost simultaneously, about ten days after having emerged from the dark cloud.†   (source)
  • I see the soft figure of a woman emerge from the shadows.†   (source)
  • If I had barely survived all this — to emerge eventually as a journalist, publisher, critic, and poet — it appeared unlikely my own son would make it.†   (source)
  • And if you used to stutter, you step forward from the watery mist, flawlessly booming out the Gettysburg Address, or if you had your face burned, like Sarah Byrnes, you emerge as a porcelain-skinned china doll.†   (source)
  • While Bella was standing by the table, another man emerged from the smoke and picked up Harriet Blanck, took Mr. Blanck's arm, and led the whole group of them toward the stairs.†   (source)
  • A heavyset man emerged from the raised cubicle in the far corner and moved warily toward her, head tilted to get a clearer sightline.†   (source)
  • "Hey," she said, emerging completely.†   (source)
  • A few seconds later she emerged, carrying a large snow shovel.†   (source)
  • She emerged a moment later carrying a small microwave oven.†   (source)
  • Already a small knot of neighbors had gathered, staring as the car door opened and two blue-uniformed officers emerged.†   (source)
  • These ghosts of children now emerged from the basements, alleys and doorways where they slept, spurred on by the hope that they might yet arouse pity in human hearts at this last hour of the day.†   (source)
  • I'm just about to go up to the receptionist to tell her that I've waited long enough, I'm leaving, when the doctor's office door swings open and this very tall, lanky man emerges, looking apologetic and holding out his hand to me.†   (source)
  • Several minutes later he emerged, bringing out cheese and a loaf of dark bread, cold chicken and sausage, butter and honey.†   (source)
  • I walk up Winston but turn back when I find myself isolated one more time with a man emerging from shadows.†   (source)
  • His words emerged in wet bubbles like something from a rancid bog.†   (source)
  • It stopped in front of the portico and Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino Daza and his wife emerged, laughing for all they were worth and carrying a tray covered with lace cloths in each hand.†   (source)
  • "You can breathe normally," Clarke told her, looking around to see if Thalia had emerged yet.†   (source)
  • When our team emerged from surgery to the sound of the applause of other hospital staff members, Rogers went directly to Theresa Binder and, with a smile on his face, asked, —Which child would you like to see first?†   (source)
  • Then the tunnel opens onto dark sky again and when we emerge we see we're at the summit.†   (source)
  • He could dive to the bottom of our lake and emerge with rocks so big they sometimes got stuck in his jaws.†   (source)
  • With a pair of barber's shears he cut hair out of the way until the outlines of this wound emerged cleanly.†   (source)
  • She was just about to go to bed when she suddenly caught sight of a shadow emerging from the woods.†   (source)
  • The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of cloud, shone with a summer brilliance on the untouched slopes.†   (source)
  • And out of this darkness, a man was emerging.†   (source)
  • Had the bidding ended, and this young doctor emerged the winner?†   (source)
  • Except for the lipsticked mouth, white teeth and shining black eyes, she might have just emerged from a dip in a beige bath.†   (source)
  • A dark shape emerged, hurtling toward them.†   (source)
  • Like all his siblings, he emerged from the bayou's waters with what he called a "very compliant gi system," and from dinners of hot dog–bean soup without much fussiness about food, and from years of cramped quarters with the ability to concentrate anywhere.†   (source)
  • She looked as though she had just emerged from a week-long orgy with a gang of hard rockers.†   (source)
  • The man who emerged as leader of the rioters was Hawaiian-born Joe Kurihara.†   (source)
  • If they grew too damaging, the farm boy handled things, emerging silently from his hovel, thrashing a few of them, sending them flying.†   (source)
  • After a quick trip to the bathroom, Patch emerged wearing his wet tee.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, if he had not missed Willie-Jay, if they could have been together for even an hour, Perry was quite convinced-just "knew"-that he would not now be loitering outside a hospital waiting for Dick to emerge with a pair of black stockings.†   (source)
  • For a while, Thomas had been a chameleon-he'd come home from school and hole up in his room, emerging as a soccer player, a thespian, a 'mathlete.'†   (source)
  • Shortly before noon a taxi stopped in front of the school and Moody emerged.†   (source)
  • When the car stops, we're all waiting for a glimpse of either someone or something to emerge from the car.†   (source)
  • The moon slowly emerged over the trees until it hovered above them, lighting their way along the narrow creek.†   (source)
  • The meeting went on all night and we emerged at dawn and found a newspaper vendor selling the Rand Daily Mail: the Nationalists had triumphed.†   (source)
  • The first goes in and after seven minutes of huffing and grunting emerges again, struggling with his fly.†   (source)
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