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Definition of "arising" []

  • Present participle of arise. (verb)

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Use "arising" in a sentence
  • "This leads to a series of trade negotiations with the dwarves, the title arising from the intense interest the dwarves have in obtaining cars."
  • "In which intrepid-but-naïve young man of action, Tom Kidd is thrust - by a Twist of Fate - headlong into a sequence of events which involve a life-or-death dilemma arising from the practical ramifications of a not particularly plausible but really neat scientific speculation … and solves this problem by having an adventure in the stars."
  • "Now to this Psalm is prefixed a title arising out of an historical event; but before the event is described we are instructed as to the scope, time and application of the incidents underlying it."