How to Use emerge in a Sentence

emerge

verb
  • The cat emerged from its hiding place behind the couch.
  • She has emerged as a leading contender in the field.
  • His war record has emerged as a key issue in the election.
  • The facts emerged after a lengthy investigation.
  • Several possible candidates have emerged.
  • The bullpen emerged as the team’s lone and glaring weakness in the first stretch.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 May 2023
  • The idea is the same: Bees emerging in spring need food.
    — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Expect more themes to emerge in the hours and days ahead.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Some have emerged alive and well, some have been found dead.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But then the Djokovic that the tennis world has come to know and fear the past dozen years emerged.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Nor did the story emerge in 2017, when #MeToo swept the country.
    — Tess McNulty, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • For the first time, a tie emerged between the missing women.
    — Claire Lempert, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Miles Battle is one of the new pieces that could emerge as one of the team’s top corners.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • With the current incarnation of the Avatar yet to emerge, the world has lost hope.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • With 20 laps to go, those contending for the race win begin to emerge at the front.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 1 June 2022
  • Democrats didn’t emerge unscathed from the midterm elections.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Either way, digging through the archives, these are among the lessons that emerge.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
  • Along the Yolo Causeway thousands of bats emerge from the underpass like a wave over the sky.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • But there’s little sense of who might emerge from a three-way race to be her running mate.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • DJ Uiagalelei used his first start at Notre Dame to emerge as a future star.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 5 Nov. 2022
  • DJ Uiagalelei used his first start at Notre Dame to emerge as a future star.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Before the end of the hour, Woods would emerge with more than just a smile and some words of encouragement.
    — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Here's what to know about the two cicada broods emerging this year.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Larry Borom could emerge as the swing tackle and has been ahead of Jenkins since camp opened.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This is the tale of one such life — that of a man whose full story would not emerge until decades later.
    — Adam Hochschild, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • But if Tyler does crack the starting lineup, then the opening would be there for Victor Oladipo to emerge as the spark off the bench.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The moths emerge from the soil in late spring or early summer, then lay their eggs singly on the undersides of a host plant's leaves.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2022
  • Pulliam saw the coyote emerge from the nearby woods and tried to distract it by throwing rocks, but tripped in the process.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • At that time, reports emerged that the two had been dating since Thanksgiving 2024.
    — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
  • Sophomore Coral Williams has emerged as a quality pitcher with a 16-0 record, backed by junior Peyton May.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025

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