All 13 Uses of
emerge
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
- He's a self-perfected American who must respect the saga of the knockabout boy emerging from a tenement culture, from backstreets slant with danger.
*emerging = coming out
- The piece began to emerge out of distance and haze, the mesh rectangle completed now, ranks of aircraft appearing as one unit of fitted parts, a shaped weave of painted steel in the monochrome surround.†
- The downfall of the empire and the emergence of detergents.†
emergence = the coming out or appearance of something
- It was lyrically true as it emerged from Marvin Lundy's mouth and reached Brian's middle ear, unprovably true, remotely and inadmissably true but not completely unhistorical, not without some nuance of authentic inner narrative.†
emerged = came out of, or appeared
- Then heads and torsos began to emerge, indistinctly, people coming into the air with jaws skewed open in frantic gasps.†
- When the bombheads threw a party you couldn't expect to emerge into the world you'd always known.†
- You could feel a sense of character emerge from each rough unhooding, a life inside the eyes, a textured set of experiences, and an understanding seemed to travel through the audience, conveyed row by row in that mysterious telemetry of crowds.†
- And when Klara's divorce from Albert became final, she changed her name from Bronzini back to Sachs but made a point of spelling it with an xy if only publicly in her emerging identity as an artist—it was how she signed her work.†
emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- That was the word somehow, from the Late Latin, deep within, and that's what they were like, trapped souls trying to emerge, and I began to understand that Jerry came here so he could put aside self-pity and the gnaws of practical worry and be with people who would talk to him in a kind of delusional plainsong, a run-on voice without ordinary sense or strict meter but coming from deeper inside than he could bear to hear in his own locution.†
- He went down the wrong passage and into a narrower place, pipes running horizontally along the walls and a cloacal stink beginning to emerge.†
- Nick hit the water and went deep and felt the shatter-shock when he emerged, lungs tight and eyes salt-burned, the bracing change of worlds.†
emerged = came out of, or appeared
- He thinks it is part of the American gulag, a place so distant from his experience that those who've emerged can't possibly be willing to spend a moment in a room with someone like him.†
- Three weeks later Edgar sits in the van and watches her partner emerge from the red brick convent—rolling gait, short legs and squarish body.†
Definition:
to come out, appear, or become prominent