Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for emanate

emanate

verb as in come forth; give off

Discover More

Example Sentences

On Twitter, the nearly verbatim language emanated from about two dozen accounts through the summer.

If you recall that distinctive tang of fresh pavement, what your nose is picking up is the volatile organic molecules emanating from the petroleum-based material.

They show the expanding limits of a ray of light—and everything else—as it emanates from an initial event, such as an explosion.

These force fields — the same entities that emanate from fridge magnets — surround Earth, the sun and all galaxies.

Earth’s field, for instance, emanates from its inner “dynamo,” the current of liquid iron churning in its core.

The concrete building from which the sounds emanate shakes from the impact, rattling the colorful houses on the dirt roads nearby.

Your bodies will emanate scent, and you will go to paradise.

Cold white wine would somehow emanate from its own spring just outside the door.

India, for its part, counter-charges that many attacks within its borders emanate from Pakistan.

The worthy Germans, who think everything excellent that does not emanate from themselves, copy this custom most conscientiously.

It may be said that an earnest Barrister should be clean shaven, but the remark would only emanate from those who are bachelors.

It would, indeed, be disrespectful in the listener not to pay intelligent heed to the discourses which emanate from the pulpit.

No such crude claims as these emanate from the skilled advertising agents employed by the Sanatogen people.

But it was not from the members of the Chamber that the movement was to emanate.

Advertisement

Discover More

When To Use

What are other ways to say emanate?

The verb emanate is used of intangible things, as light or ideas, spreading from a source: Rumors often emanate from irresponsible persons. The verb emerge is used of coming forth from a place shut off from view, or from concealment, or the like, into sight and notice: The sun emerges from behind the clouds. Issue is often used of a number of persons, a mass of matter, or a volume of smoke, sound, or the like, coming forth through any outlet or outlets: The crowd issued from the building.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement