In a sentence
Six example sentences with emergence, each labelled with its topic.
The emergence of a middle class in the port cities changed what local factories chose to manufacture within a decade.
Economics
Biologists filmed the emergence of the cicadas, seventeen years underground reduced to a single humid week above ground.
Science
The emergence of photography pushed painters toward color and gesture rather than the careful likeness patrons once demanded.
Art
The emergence of cheap sensors turned a rare research tool into something farmers now bolt onto every irrigation pump.
Technology
The emergence of a reliable third scorer took pressure off the two stars during the long February road swing.
Basketball
Historians trace the emergence of bebop to late-night sessions in Harlem clubs where the tempos kept climbing.
Music
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
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