All 17 Uses of
emerge
in
The Namesake
- There are even roaches in the bathroom, emerging at night from the cracks in the tiles.†
Chpt 2emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- He will remember the warm, bright summer's day when the topsoil was poured from the back of a truck, and stepping onto the sun deck a few weeks later with both of his parents to see thin blades of grass emerge from the bald black lawn.†
Chpt 3
- He keeps wishing, every evening, that she would emerge from the bedroom and sit between him and his father, filling the air with her sari and cardigan smell.†
Chpt 3
- But then, suddenly, the crayon meets with slight resistance, and letters, one after another, emerge magically on the page: ABIJAH CRAVEN, 1701-45.
Chpt 3 *emerge = appear
- In the glow of the bedside lamp, Ashoke notices a scattered down emerging on his son's upper lip.†
Chpt 4emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- At his mother's flat on Amherst Street, where his uncle's family lives now, neighbors look from their windows and roofs as Gogol and his family emerge from the taxi.†
Chpt 4
- He is about to turn back down the staircase when one of the doors opens and a girl emerges, a pretty, slender girl wearing a buttoned-up polka-dotted thrift store dress and scuffed Doc Martens.†
Chpt 4emerges = comes out of, or appears
- He emerges into the muggy afternoon, perspiring, still partly convinced it is a dream.†
Chpt 5
- He learns to anticipate, every evening, the sound of a cork emerging from a fresh bottle of wine.†
Chpt 6emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- He parks in front of his father's building, remaining long enough in the car to see an elderly, sprightly couple emerge with tennis rackets.†
Chpt 7
- His father had shut the door, and locked it, and emerged shrunken and bald.†
Chpt 7emerged = came out of, or appeared
- Bridget excuses herself to use the bathroom and when she emerges her wedding ring is absent from her finger.†
Chpt 8emerges = comes out of, or appears
- For a minute longer he stands there, watching as the door opens again and a tenant emerges to deposit something into one of the trash cans below the stoop.†
Chpt 8
- He sees the hair that grows on her legs between waxings, the black roots that emerge between appointments at the salon, and in these moments, these glimpses, he believes he has known no greater intimacy.†
Chpt 8
- She emerges now in the snow-white terry-cloth hotel robe.†
Chpt 9emerges = comes out of, or appears
- They've both dressed up for the occasion—when she emerges from the bathroom she sees that he is wearing the shirt she's given him, moss-colored with a velvet Nehru collar of slightly darker green.†
Chpt 10
- "There it is," he says, noticing a couple emerging from a basement door below the steps.†
Chpt 10emerging = coming out of, or appearing
Definition:
to come out, appear, or become prominent