All 21 Uses of
emerge
in
A Hope in the Unseen
- At 5:02 P.M. on this day, a week af:er the awards assembly, Cedric Jennings emerges from Ballou's side entrance, having already finished his homework and another SAT practice test in Clarence Taylor's room.†
Chpt 1
- The chances of a boy emerging from here intact were almost nil.†
Chpt 2
- By the time she emerges in her white pullover house dress, he's already in his room, having ceded her the couch.†
Chpt 2
- At home, at least, Phil is still like that, but everywhere else the other Phillip has emerged.†
Chpt 3
- And what better time to explore what's natural and innate and waiting to emerge than in springtime, the season so suited to adolescence.†
Chpt 3
- Then a note from one of the student counselors about him seeming to emerge socially in just the last week or so.†
Chpt 4
- Cedric is slowly letting his true self emerge.†
Chpt 4
- Cedric emerges from the stairwell swinging a Snapple Lemon Iced Tea bottle like a blackjack and sees a crowd gathering in the doorway of the second-floor lounge, just next to his room.†
Chpt 7
- Still, he pushes forward gamely-there's a lot of ground to cover in this survey course-and by 8:55 he's tying social characteristics of lateeighteenth-century American progressives to the emergence of public educational institutions, schools that carried, he asserts, "an evangelical fervor in what they saw as the serious business of educating youngsters, especially the hordes of immigrants."†
Chpt 8
- A few minutes later, he emerges from the restaurant and passes a clutch of wrought-iron tables on the sidewalk, favored spots in the warm sun.†
Chpt 8
- Zayd Osceola Ayers Dohrn emerges from a reactor core of such headlong thinking: the elegant Chicago brownstone of two fiftyish college professors on the city's integrated and edgy south side, just a few blocks from the University of Chicago.†
Chpt 8
- Barbara and Neddy, dragging suitcases and Hefty bags, emerge from the porti-coed escalator and slump into a wooden love seat in the train station's central atrium.†
Chpt 9
- Chiniqua, just out of bed, emerges from her room in robin's-egg-blue pajamas.†
Chpt 9
- Spring, of course, is the season most suited to college life-to the budding senses of emerging adults, to the carefree promise of growth, to the far-from-home feeling of being unbound.†
Chpt 13
- Eventually he emerges onto the street in a beige wool overcoat with a high, turned-up collar (a real '70s Superfly number, he thinks, for only $15) and struts eastward toward a few shops clustered around a pizza joint with some outdoor tables.†
Chpt 13
- Here it is, his best month, a time when he's emerging and finally figuring some things out, and here he's thinking about going back to find Jamal.†
Chpt 13
- From somewhere, probably an open dorm window, he hears salsa music and then walks by a silver van, called the Silver Truck, from which a long line of hungry kids, each having emerged from a different flavored party on the main quad, waits patiently, brought together by the universal craving for a late-night cheese-steak sub.†
Chpt 13
- In a few minutes, creamed and brushed and slipping on a T-shirt, Cedric emerges from the bedroom.†
Chpt 14
- It's Cedric, emerging from his room and blocking the doorway.
Chpt 14 *emerging = coming out of
- Down across the street, a burly fortyish man in an old-fashioned ribbed tank T-shirt emerges from a fiat-faced brick apartment with a socket wrench and muscles open the hydrant.†
Chpt 14
- But, as this book shows, Phillip-a Jehovah's Witness-emerged from a family with a particularly fierce work ethic.†
Chpt A.N.
Definition:
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(emerge) to come out, or to appear