Example Sentences

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As the storm had intensified into the evening, he said, people started getting alerts saying that the water level at one of the dams was rising and noises were emanating from it.

From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2023

And doctors could not tell whether the seizures were emanating from his left or right temporal lobe or even if the spot that had been seen on an early scan was clinically significant.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2022

A few decades later, musicians were emanating that same spirit, from the jazzy bossa nova to the psychedelic samba of the movement known as Tropicália.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

When the likes of ELP, Tubular Bells, Weather Report and Steely Dan were emanating from college dorm rooms in the pre-punk 1970s, I was listening hard to all three volumes of Aznavour Sings Aznavour.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2018

It had now become the very centre of Christianising influences, whence rays of bright light were emanating and reaching the farthest islands of the Pacific Ocean.

From The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific by Pearse, Alfred