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  • I emerged from the store a few minutes later dressed in my new threads.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • And from the middle of the misty, domed web, a spider the size of a small elephant emerged, very slowly.   (source)
  • A trucker emerges, stretches, and heads toward the truckstop bathrooms, leaving the door ajar.   (source)
    emerges = comes 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)
    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
  • Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees.   (source)
    emerge = come out
  • And, you remember, our original intent was to use the newly emerging technology of genetic engineering to make money. A lot of money.   (source)
    emerging = becoming prominent
  • When he emerged, it was with a young Arab, dressed in white and gold.   (source)
    emerged = appeared (or came out)
  • It emerged a split part of a second later.   (source)
    emerged = came out of, or appeared
  • The patrolman emerged into the glaring daylight.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • Ender emerged at the top of the soldier efficiencies list.   (source)
  • A few minutes later he emerged from the field alone, got into his car, and left.   (source)
  • 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
  • Ella emerged from the dining room.   (source)
    emerged = came out of, or appeared
  • 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)
  • She emerged from the house minutes later with...   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • 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
  • I said, and I now felt stronger, as if my true self had finally emerged.   (source)
    emerged = come out; or appeared
  • I could see them as they emerged from the gangway and came toward us along the keel catwalk.   (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)
  • 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
  • Suddenly, two robots with one stolen crystal emerged from the smoke and jumped into an old van.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • They emerged from one story only to delve deep into another.   (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
  • others have deeply buried anger that emerges after months with their mothers.   (source)
    emerges = comes out or appears
  • The memories are there--they must come out, they must emerge, they cannot be allowed to fester any longer.   (source)
    emerge = come out
  • A few doors down, three men emerged from a cafe, tipsy with drink.   (source)
    emerged = came about
  • It emerged in her dreams like a dark moon with figures leaping from its mouth,   (source)
    emerged = appeared or 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
  • And that's when Wally emerged from his shell.   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • 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
  • But one running conversation did emerge: when Colton saw Jesus in heaven, what did he look like?   (source)
    emerge = come out; or appear
  • These were pictures I rushed to develop, holding my breath as they emerged before me.   (source)
    emerged = came out
  • a sudden emergence into a clearing   (source)
    emergence = appearance as entering
  • But her intended scream never emerges.   (source)
    emerges = comes 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
  • It's Cedric, emerging from his room and blocking the doorway.   (source)
    emerging = coming out of
  • 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)
  • For centuries, no great evil emerged, and we began to hope that we had finally succeeded!   (source)
    emerged = appeared
  • He grinned sheepishly, or stared in amazement, as if emerged from an astounding dream.   (source)
    emerged = having come out
  • Alessandro wore a black robe, its only decoration his head emerging from the flat collar.   (source)
    emerging = coming out
  • I explained our position, and that we certainly could not hope to emerge from the cave in daylight, unseen.   (source)
    emerge = come out of
  • From the shadows behind Loki's throne a figure emerged, gliding across the floor.   (source)
    emerged = 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
  • ...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
  • From my reading, it seemed to me that Texas is emerging as a separate force and...   (source)
    emerging = appearing; or coming out
  • and man began to emerge, to prove again his capacity for endurance and faithfulness.   (source)
    emerge = appear
  • His secret ambition had at last dared to emerge into the full light of consciousness.   (source)
  • 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
  • Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head.   (source)
    emerged = came 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
  • on emerging from the sewer, he was arrested.   (source)
    emerging = coming out
  • We emerged from the wreck and glided into the open sea.   (source)
    emerged = came out of
  • The small sliver of hope for society that had emerged in her soul had evaporated like a drop of dew in the sun.†   (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)
  • And when Bela Lugosi emerged from the shadows, Osip leapt from his seat and nearly fell to the floor.†   (source)
  • A young girl with blonde braids emerged from the flag-waving crowd to hand Oskar a bouquet of flowers and blow him a kiss.†   (source)
  • Enough facts had emerged for us to know the seriousness of the situation, but the details were disjointed, contradictory, and confusing.†   (source)
  • Naiads emerged from the canoeing lake.†   (source)
  • Two men emerged from the jeep.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As we got out of the car, a tall man emerged from the trailer.†   (source)
  • Another prehistoric sound emerged from somewhere near his chest.†   (source)
  • A newly emerging power will take over the existing symbols and degrade them over time in an attempt to erase their meaning.†   (source)
  • She emerged from the bathroom with her cleaning gloves and a pail.†   (source)
  • A slim sheet with my answers emerges from the side.†   (source)
  • Thomas squeezed his eyes against the blinding light of the sun as he emerged from the woods.†   (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)
  • Every day some new detail emerges—each storm drain, park bench, and hydrant in the model has its counterpart in the real world.†   (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)
  • Savannah emerged from the war impoverished, but it recovered within a few years and prospered once again.†   (source)
  • With a pair of barber's shears he cut hair out of the way until the outlines of this wound emerged cleanly.†   (source)
  • When the door swung open, and Dell and Quang-ha emerged, I got to my feet and followed Mai down the stairs.†   (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)
  • Another box emerged, showing the waves at Rodeo Beach, a few miles down the Pacific coast.†   (source)
  • A strategy was emerging from the calls that Dad received and made.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She would not emerge from the cobwebs and shadows, although I held the heavy bookshelf-door wide open for her.†   (source)
  • An hour later, I emerge pink and soreheaded and thirsty.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood.†   (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)
  • "Excuse me if I don't curtsy," a voice says, emerging from a grove of white-spangled magnolia trees.†   (source)
  • Heading out into the channel, she stayed underwater as long as she could, emerged briefly to gulp air, and dove under again.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when they emerge, they mark a house by painting a big red X on the front door.†   (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)
  • A man emerged from the kitchen.†   (source)
  • The Bomb emerged from the stairwell, breathing hard, but looking fiercely satisfied.†   (source)
  • Even though her brother was three years older, Hana would sometimes emerge the winner.†   (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 ....What did it mean?†   (source)
  • Then Judith emerged from her own musings long enough to explain.†   (source)
  • Cinder slowed when they'd put enough distance between them and the market, emerging from the maze of alleys.†   (source)
  • A soldier emerged from the barracks.†   (source)
  • They emerged into a wide open-plan computer bay.†   (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)
  • The crowd erupted again as the king, queen, and Maxon emerged.†   (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)
  • Then again, should she miraculously recover, emerging revitalized from her bedchamber, it would signal the end of Artemis's own extraordinary freedom.†   (source)
  • Stiff and sore, the four of us emerged from our sanctuary exhausted, thankful to still be alive.†   (source)
  • And then suddenly a jet of water emerges from the sink—and after it ascends a very wet MOANING MYRTLE.†   (source)
  • "What?" said Boris, when I emerged.†   (source)
  • In the Frank family quarters, the first sleepy faces are beginning to emerge from their pillows.†   (source)
  • The same pattern emerged.†   (source)
  • I open my mouth several times and have to shut it again after all that emerges is a high-pitched squeak.†   (source)
  • A shadowy figure emerged at the opposite end.†   (source)
  • I see the soft figure of a woman emerge from the shadows.†   (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)
  • And if a new couple did emerge one day, you didn't go around talking about it like it was a big event.†   (source)
  • His words emerged in wet bubbles like something from a rancid bog.†   (source)
  • Faint smudges emerged from the darkness and advanced down the trail.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Nobody saw her emerge or came accidentally by.†   (source)
  • A few seconds later she emerged, carrying a large snow shovel.†   (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)
  • He could dive to the bottom of our lake and emerge with rocks so big they sometimes got stuck in his jaws.†   (source)
  • Several minutes later he emerged, bringing out cheese and a loaf of dark bread, cold chicken and sausage, butter and honey.†   (source)
  • Then at last one evening I spotted him emerging from the back of a limousine in the dark alleyway ahead of me.†   (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)
  • Eventually one emerged.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I walk up Winston but turn back when I find myself isolated one more time with a man emerging from shadows.†   (source)
  • The head priest did not emerge from behind the screens in the temple residence, though junior priests came and went.†   (source)
  • She emerged a moment later carrying a small microwave oven.†   (source)
  • Macon emerged in a smoking jacket over neat black pants and a white dress shirt.†   (source)
  • Worse had occurred too, although these revelations emerged only slowly.†   (source)
  • You passed two days under City Hall and emerged gravely ill with fever and heaven knows what else.†   (source)
  • "There is no mistake, Corrie," he said as he emerged.†   (source)
  • Our convoy slowed down, and a booger-eater emerged in a doorway, aiming his AK-47 right at me.†   (source)
  • A short while later Tata Ndu emerged out of darkness.†   (source)
  • One of these—a mother, father, daughter, son— emerged from the complete blackness of an interior service door.†   (source)
  • As I emerged from the cafeteria today, he walked right up, face to face, stepping on my toes so I couldn't move for a long moment.†   (source)
  • I WAS WATCHING FROM THE ROOF ONE AFTERNOON when a group of roughly sixteen fully armed insurgents emerged from cover.†   (source)
  • She was just about to go to bed when she suddenly caught sight of a shadow emerging from the woods.†   (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)
  • The furniture of the room emerged from the darkness.†   (source)
  • Already a small knot of neighbors had gathered, staring as the car door opened and two blue-uniformed officers emerged.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • An hour later Marilyn Beasley emerged with wonder on her face and a simple observation: "He knows it."†   (source)
  • The USS Bremerton Thirty miles to the northeast, the USS Bremerton was on a heading of two-two-five, just emerging from under the icepack.†   (source)
  • They eventually emerged two doors away.†   (source)
  • Dad is emerging from the back door, pulling on a jacket.†   (source)
  • He discovered three things almost simultaneously, about ten days after having emerged from the dark cloud.†   (source)
  • This was why she had not been surprised when the midwife screamed as the child emerged.†   (source)
  • The mujahideen has now emerged as the Taliban or al Qaeda.†   (source)
  • The emergence of African nationalism further weakened Belgian control of its colony, and in 1960, the Republic of Congo was granted independence.†   (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)
  • They expected the door to swing open at any moment and see Booth emerge with his hands up or his pistols blazing.†   (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)
  • She sneered: No sociopath could emerge from there.†   (source)
  • She looked as though she had just emerged from a week-long orgy with a gang of hard rockers.†   (source)
  • Silently, like a deer, the figure of Cico emerged.†   (source)
  • A girl that is not Kara emerges from the back of the car.†   (source)
  • The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of cloud, shone with a summer brilliance on the untouched slopes.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Georgia had a great game plan for us on offense, which we watched throughout the afternoon as Knowshon Moreno emerged as a top college running back with 188 yards and three touchdowns.†   (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)
  • "Hey," she said, emerging completely.†   (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)
  • Rafa went into the smokehouse and emerged with his knife and two oranges.†   (source)
  • After a quick trip to the bathroom, Patch emerged wearing his wet tee.†   (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)
  • A dark shape emerged, hurtling toward them.†   (source)
  • , I saw her emerging from the teachers' lounge, Mr. Hartsfield in tow.†   (source)
  • The sounds, too, of the language flowing like a stream, a word here and there emerging like a pebble.†   (source)
  • Darkness blurred around us until finally some recognizable shapes emerged.†   (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)
  • She had banged her head sharply on the wall and Annie, emerging from the kitchen, could see she was in pain.†   (source)
  • Restlessness, impermanence, and speed were embedded in the culture that soon emerged there, along with an openness to anything new.†   (source)
  • He started to emerge again.†   (source)
  • An old woman emerges from a shack behind the cantina, buttoning up a torn housedress.†   (source)
  • Her answers are always oblique and the full story never emerges in a direct line.†   (source)
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