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[ US /ˈɛməˌneɪt/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛmɐnˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. give out (breath or an odor)
    The chimney exhales a thick smoke
  2. proceed or issue forth, as from a source
    Water emanates from this hole in the ground

How To Use emanate In A Sentence

  • This was no obvious gaffe as it would have been had it emanated from the lips of George Bush, oh no, this was perhaps a "knowing casualism". Look, Obama just doesn't make gaffes, OK?
  • The great surprise is that out of this slim body, a sonorous, powerful voice emanates vibrating with a immense nuances of expression.
  • I am satisfied that this reference did not emanate from anyone representing the ports authority or the dock company.
  • Zlotin heard a lone scream emanate from underneath the balcony, then the chain gun fell silent. CODE BREAKER
  • The sound of loud music emanated from the building.
  • Two figures stood in a treacherously dangerous position at the edge of a hole from which a pillar of light emanated.
  • I remain a big fan of the engine though - the throaty burble they emanate still sends a chill up my spine each time I hear one.
  • If He emanated from God, is He coeternal and consubstantial with Him, or is He of a similar substance? A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Just a few yards away from the mahal, the strains of Carnatic music emanate from a small shrine.
  • The poem is re-created in glowing phrases — “A rich distilled perfume emanates from it like the breath of genius; a golden cloud envelops it; a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it, like the candied coat of the auricula”. The Common Reader, Second Series
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