How to Use surfacing in a Sentence

surfacing

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  • The surfacing of the podcast brought the debate to a head.
    — Anna North, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018
  • For the cicadas, buried below ground for years, the surfacing comes in the spring.
    — Dwight Weingarten, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2021
  • To swim is to be in two places at once, a surfacing of the eyes into the world of air, then down into the world of water.
    — Peter Rock, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Search, then, will evolve away from the actual act of searching to the act of surfacing.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Others in the river, hooked to the rope, diving and surfacing.
    — Will MacKin, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • She was awakened by the sound of orcas surfacing to breathe.
    — Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Often the surfacing alone is hard to push a wheelchair.
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 20 July 2018
  • However, soon the world saw PayPal and Google surfacing, and then the dot-com boom.
    — Abhishek Rungta, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • There's minimal surfacing along the sides, and the taillights appear to stretch the width of the rear end and wrap around onto the fenders.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 July 2022
  • But the quality of the fakes and the surfacing are uninspiring and just bad tradecraft.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2020
  • To call them surfacing whales turns the formula around.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Body surfacing is more sharply creased than before, and there are more rugged design cues such as faux skid plates on the lower parts of the front and rear bumpers.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
  • For the first time in over two centuries, the emergence of the 17-year cicadas will coincide with the surfacing of Brood XIX — 13-year cicadas.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Melania’s surfacings since the election have been sparse, wan, and imbued with pathos.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Even though Stanton has a no-trade clause in his contract, his name keeps surfacing in trade rumors.
    — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 July 2017
  • Size: 23 to 33 feet Defining trait: Quick movement, snout-first surfacingA rare sight close to shore, Minke whales are close in size to gray whales and spout like their cetacean cousins, too.
    — OregonLive.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The side surfacing also looks a lot cleaner than the Blazer's busy bodywork.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The effect — that of a whale surfacing, serene and massive — is, in the literal sense, wonderful.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 May 2024
  • But clearly, if Japanese air and naval forces had been able to track the submarine for two days before the surfacing, the Shang class is too noisy.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Yet their lives will continue to be formed by this act of forgetting, and of the sudden surfacing of trauma.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Bids could be awarded in February, which would allow for eight to 10 weeks in March and April to install the surfacing and equipment.
    — cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
  • And Koepka himself has no regrets about the video surfacing.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 17 June 2021
  • The state of Missouri had told the Trinity Lutheran Church preschool that the state couldn’t pay for the preschool’s safer playground surfacing, because the state banned funding any church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 26 June 2017
  • Then, about a year after the quake, the whales returned to their normal location and patterns of feeding and surfacing.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Adams has a year left on his contract, and a report like this surfacing before training camp starts isn’t a surprise.
    — Tom Silverstein, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
  • Walchanowicz explained that the city will dig out the old surfacing and fix any drainage issues to prevent standing water around the play structures.
    — Laura Bednar, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Still, that hasn't stopped a slew of reports from surfacing in recent months that all point to a sizable update to Samsung's Galaxy Note line.
    — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • People were a little put-off by the whole Bangle-butt flame surfacing styling thing and arguments were made that the E46 was the last of the classic 3 Series models.
    — Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 24 June 2024
  • But The Sun’s dining reporter also has a knack for surfacing often overlooked stories from the past.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2022
  • Last week saw the surfacing of yet another consequential bug, one that’s been active for at least a few weeks now.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 July 2021

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