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Example sentences for "rise above"

  • Neither did he rise above it in a mental view, any more than in a moral.

  • If it rise above this, measures designed to abstract heat are very important--more important even in many cases than the medicinal agents which are commonly used to combat this disease.

  • In this form the temperature may never rise above 102° F.

  • If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you.

  • Not when I rise above, only when I rise to, something, do I approve myself.

  • Still we are free men only so far as we rise above these.

  • To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress.

  • To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.

  • There is no trace whatever in St. Paul of any aspiration to rise above Christ to the contemplation of the Absolute--to treat Him as only a step in the ladder.

  • Defn: To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.

  • Defn: To swell or rise above; to overflow.

  • To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.

  • To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

  • In the history of any great people there is a period when they seem to rise above themselves.

  • And family and social life bring him into new relations, press home upon him new duties and responsibilities, every one of which is a new motive compelling him to rise above self.

  • But a greater problem confronts it; can it rise above self?

  • During the charge the temperature of the cells should not be permitted to rise above 110 deg.

  • The condition of the isolator, therefore, may be used to determine whether the temperature of the electrolyte has been allowed to rise above 100° Fahrenheit.

  • Do not allow the temperature of any cell to rise above 110°F.

  • Christianity is the only effectual remedy for the fearful evils of modern civilization,--a system which teaches its members to grasp at everything, and to rise above everybody, as the great aims of life.

  • It will be said that the principal part of men are plainly designed to work on matter for the acquisition of material and corporeal good, and that, in such, the spirit is of necessity too wedded to matter to rise above it.

  • Then it becomes a dream, and we rise above it into an atmosphere of Perfect Serenity.

  • These are but troubled dreams of the darkened soul, and to rise above them is to wake from a cataleptic nightmare to see the stars shining on the hills.

  • Maybe I am still on the Material Plane after all, in spite of all I have done and all the rest of us in Alcalde are doing to try to rise above it.

  • Conventions do not arise without some reason, and genius will know how to rise above them by a fresh appreciation of their rightness, and will feel no temptation to overturn them in favour of personal whimsies.

  • His constant refrain is the omnipotence of imaginative thought; its power first to make the world, then to understand it, and finally to rise above it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another instant; are told; common friend; everyone knows; final settlement; finds himself; getting down; land and; make water; mother goddess; other products; other stories; rise above; rise again; rise and; rise early; rise over; risen again; risen from the dead; ruinous state; safe anchorage; said the little robber; says that; sexual intercourse; strode along; vulgarly called