Example sentences for: risen

How can you use “risen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The mortality rate from asthma has risen sharply since the late 1970s, which may reflect increasing disease severity [ 2].

  • Although aggregate household wealth has risen in part as a result of the stock market boom over the 1990s, many individual households have accumulated little, if any, wealth.

  • The low rate of inflation in the U.S. economy is indeed a surprise: But the puzzle is why wages have not risen more rapidly despite very tight labor markets, not why prices have remained stable given very moderate wage increases.

  • At least, it seems clear that the earnings of the total labor force have risen pretty much in line with productivity (output per hour of work) when measured correctly.

  • The Washington Post 's story about Melvoin reported that heroin purity has risen from "as low as 4 percent in past decades to upward of 70 percent today," while the Los Angeles Times ' piece noted that heroin had gone "from 4 percent [purity] in 1980 to 40 percent in 1995."


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