Example Sentences

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This is the climate in which I am raising a daughter.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Like many parents, I am raising a child that eats, sleeps, and breathes Frozen.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2020

“I have left my home, my family and my job, and I am raising my voice,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2018

Sanders’ campaign is exclusively voter-financed. “I am raising money from small individual contributions,” he told CBS’s John Dickerson.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2015

The question I am raising is this: Do more electrons move around the plate circuit if there is a signal coming in than when there is no incoming signal?

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John