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How to use rear in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, adjective, adverb

Rear means to bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. Example: “The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.”

Examples of rear by meaning

verbTo breed and raise.

  • The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.

verbTo rise up on the hind legs.

  • The horse was shocked, and thus reared.

verbTo rise high above, tower above.

  • By my side reared a solid stone wall, and beneath was simply the room we stood in, for the space below the stairway was not enclosed.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...

verbTo raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

  • Poverty reared its ugly head. (appeared, started, began to have an effect)
  • The monster slowly reared its head.

verbTo construct by building; to set up.

  • to rear defenses or houses
  • to rear one government on the ruins of another.

adjectiveBeing behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.

  • the rear rank of a company
  • sit in the rear seats of a car

verbTo carve.

  • Rear that goose!

adjective(of meats) Rare.

  • Fred ordered a rear steak along with a glass of beer as he took a seat at an empty table2017, Dr. Ardeshir Irani, Short Tales of the Old Wild West

More sentences with rear

  • The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.From the entry trumpet
  • It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.From the entry usual
  • The classic VW Beetle is a back to front car, with the engine at the rear.From the entry back to front
  • The air pressure in the rear tyres should often be higher than in the front tyres.From the entry air pressure
  • The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot.From the entry shot
  • The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.From the entry bass
  • Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.From the entry tag
  • The frightened horse reared up and unseated its rider.From the entry unseat
  • Following the accident passengers were detrained through the rear cab.From the entry detrain
  • The patient experienced subluxations of his right ulna, his lower right rear molar, and the lens of his left eye.From the entry subluxation
  • Tradesmen should use the rear entrance.From the entry tradesman
  • They offered me a deployment overseas to see some action, but I declined. I prefer just staying in the rear with the gear.From the entry in the rear with the gear
  • Sill waved for an armored vehicle to come up from the rear.2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 264. From the entry APC
  • Shades and the ghosts of Burnhamism have again reared its ugly face in Guyana.2020 March 15, Paras Ramoutar, “Commonwealth, CARICOM must suspend Guyana from its folds”, in Indo-Caribbean Diaspora News, archived from…. From the entry Burnhamism
  • Why not have Homer’s rear end block a game-winning field goal?2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired…. From the entry field goal
  • The Germans are rear- or all-wheel drive, while the front wheels pull the Korean around.2016 November 18, Tom Voelk, “Video Review: Kia Cadenza Offers Budget-Minded Pampering”, in The New York Times, archived from the original…. From the entry autoparking
  • Whether you parent, rear your children, or (horror of horrors) oversharent, you are probably doing just fine.2015 May 10, Britt Peterson, “The effects of 'parenting' on child-rearing”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media…. From the entry oversharent
  • If it becomes serious enough, a variety of signs and symptoms will rear their ugly head.2014 December 15, “Stimulants Addiction Signs”, in Narcotics.com, Narcotics Anonymous. From the entry rear one's ugly head
  • Bringin up the rear, a girl about my age pedals a three-tire trolley.2012 October 30, Moira Young, Rebel Heart, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry boarback
  • Ruler: Grand Duke Travis I Obv: Arms Rev: Crown and rearing horse on quartered flag background Rev.2011, George S. Cuhaj, Thomas Michael, editors, Unusual World Coins (companion volume to the Standard Catalog of World Coins), 6th…. From the entry Molossia
  • The pin bones are the points at the rear of the cow protruding out from the pelvis.2011, Philip Hasheider, The Family Cow Handbook: A Guide to Keeping a Milk Cow, page 40. From the entry thurl
  • An additional large triangular flaplike appendage at the rear of the head is thickened along its margin.2009 February 6, Gabriele Kuhl et al., “A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany”…. From the entry flaplike
  • On the first vert, he reared up the side and let the bike take him out.2008, Andrew Fusek Peters, “The Bowl and the Bully”, in Diamonds are for Evil (Skateboard Detectives), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN. From the entry superman
  • The rear seat areas looked unfinished, waiting for more time to weld in more bulletproofing.2008, Thomas Sherry, Shatter, page 553. From the entry bulletproofing
  • Carl Edwards spent most of his Saturday evening trying to get to Kyle Busch’s rear bumper.2008 August 24, Dave Ongie, “Edwards eases Busch aside, claims Sharpie 500 victory”, in timesnews.net, US, retrieved 20 Apr 2011. From the entry money's worth
  • Next the front steering and the rear end assemblies were added.2008, Fred Thomas, Car Club Memories: Personal Stories from Three Dynamic Decades of Cruisin', Competition, and Cool Cars, AuthorHouse…. From the entry club car
  • Then lorek's rear claws dug into the links of Iofur's chain-mail sark and ripped downward.2007, Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials, Bluefire, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry sark
  • He reared his body up and down with emotion as he played, and often grunted midphrase.2007 June 2, Corey Kilgannon, “A Jazzman’s Farewell Album, All Heart and Soul”, in New York Times. From the entry midphrase
  • Farther up his rear end, the nondiscussion turned to environmentalism: Save the Earth!2007 January 7, Shalom Auslander, “Love Child”, in New York Times. From the entry nondiscussion

Meaning of rear

  1. verb To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
  2. verb To breed and raise.
  3. verb To rise up on the hind legs.

Full definition of rear

Questions about rear in a sentence

How do you use rear in a sentence?
Rear is used as a verb, adjective and adverb. For example: “The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.”
What is a short sentence with rear?
“Rear that goose!”
What does rear mean?
Rear means to bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rear (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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