How to use "rise" in a sentence

We had to wait six days for the water to rise before the ship could leave

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice

Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

"All rise!" the court clerk says, and the jury, the lawyers and the family of the defendant all stand

"All rise!" the court clerk says again

"All rise!" and Nick knows it is too late now.

The land began to rise toward Mount Charleston where, less than an hour away, pine forests were mantled with snow

He expected to see the entire white-shrouded lawn begin to move and rise in the forms of ten, fifteen, twenty other assassins.

They came over the rise onto a plateau, an enormous shelf carved in the side of the mountain.

Danny opened the high-security elevator and made the cab rise once they were in it

She squinted up into the snow-shipped night and saw the chopper coming over the rise at the west end of the plateau