emergent

in a sentence

VII So now, the Spaniard took hold of Eugene's arm and guided him carefully by the instant's light of one match after another and the emergent light of the wreathed, racing moon.†  (source) Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, 1955

An occasional English face among them seemed sharp and emergent.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

The huge bulk of the hills was foggily emergent.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

So now, the Spaniard took hold of Eugene's arm and guided him carefully by the instant's light of one match after another and the emergent light of the wreathed, racing moon.†  (source) Eudora Welty, The Golden Apples, 1949

He was conscious of the groups of English, emergent after four years and walking with detective-story suspicion in their eyes, as though they were about to be assaulted in this questionable country by German trained-bands.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

Before his eyes the emergent nymph was scaling her hard cracked hag's pelt.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

So now, the Spaniard took hold of Eugene's arm and guided him carefully by the instant's light of one match after another and the emergent light of the wreathed, racing moon.†  (source) Eudora Welty, Music From Spain, 1949

It would be hundreds of years before any emergent Amazons would ever grasp the fact that a man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpty once that is meddled with—though some of them paid the fact a cautious lip-service.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

The great clan of go-getter was emergent in young boys—big in voice, violent in threat, withered and pale at heart—the "He-men" were on the rails.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

She snapped it shut, though, and made a low reverence toward the emergent laird.†  (source) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds;†  (source) John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

Common-wealths can endure no Diet: For seeing their expence is not limited by their own appetite, but by externall Accidents, and the appetites of their neighbours, the Publique Riches cannot be limited by other limits, than those which the emergent occasions shall require.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.†  (source) John Donne, Meditation 17, 1623