All 8 Uses of
emerge
in
Ceremony, by Silko
- But before Josiah could come, the fever voices would drift and whirl and emerge again—Japanese soldiers shouting orders to him, suffocating damp voices that drifted out in the jungle steam, and he heard the women's voices then; they faded in and out until he was frantic because he thought the Laguna words were his mother's, but when he was about to make out the meaning of the words, the voice suddenly broke into a language he could not understand; and it was then that all the voices were drowned by the music—loud, loud music from a big juke box, its flashing red and blue lights pulling the darkness closer.†
Chpt All
- Reports note that since the Second World War a pattern of drinking and violence, not previously seen before, is emerging among Indian veterans.†
Chpt Allemerging = coming out of, or appearing
- Coming closer to the river, faintly at first, faint as the pale yellow light emerging across the southeast horizon, the sounds gathered intensity from the swelling colors of dawn.†
Chpt All
- Inside him the muddy water turmoil was settling to the bottom, and streaks of clarity were slowly emerging.†
Chpt All
- He could remember seeing the sunny bright day and the faint autumn colors emerging in the scrub oak; he remembered thinking how funny it was to be in such trouble in the middle of the day, when it was nighttime and darkness that were suspected occasions of danger.†
Chpt All
- 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.
Chpt All *emerge = appear
- Tayo's heart beat fast; he could see Josiah's vision emerging, he could see the story taking form in bone and muscle.†
Chpt Allemerging = coming out of, or appearing
- The rainwater would seep down gently and the delicate membranes would not be crushed or broken before the emergence of tiny fingers, roots, and leaves pressing out in all directions.†
Chpt Allemergence = the coming out or appearance of something
Definition:
to come out, appear, or become prominent