How to Use surfacing in a Sentence

surfacing

noun

• For the cicadas, buried below ground for years, the surfacing comes in the spring.
  — Dwight Weingarten, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2021
• Search, then, will evolve away from the actual act of searching to the act of surfacing.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2017
• Others in the river, hooked to the rope, diving and surfacing.
  — Will MacKin, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• Melania’s surfacings since the election have been sparse, wan, and imbued with pathos.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• To swim is to be in two places at once, a surfacing of the eyes into the world of air, then down into the world of water.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• Even though Stanton has a no-trade clause in his contract, his name keeps surfacing in trade rumors.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 July 2017
• Suess said the employee noticed oil surfacing in a nearby field.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2025
• Adams has a year left on his contract, and a report like this surfacing before training camp starts isn’t a surprise.
  — Tom Silverstein, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
• The side surfacing also looks a lot cleaner than the Blazer's busy bodywork.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2022
• Body surfacing is more sharply creased than before, and there are more rugged design cues such as faux skid plates on the lower parts of the front and rear bumpers.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
• Yet their lives will continue to be formed by this act of forgetting, and of the sudden surfacing of trauma.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Last week saw the surfacing of yet another consequential bug, one that’s been active for at least a few weeks now.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 July 2021
• There's minimal surfacing along the sides, and the taillights appear to stretch the width of the rear end and wrap around onto the fenders.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 July 2022
• And in the distance, between the boat and the mountains, there's a killer whale surfacing, swimming toward the fishing boat.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 11 June 2025
• The law calls for facilities to be equipped with proper surfacing and safety netting.
  — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 4 May 2026
• The effect — that of a whale surfacing, serene and massive — is, in the literal sense, wonderful.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 May 2024
• There's smooth surfacing on the lower body, and a camo panel looks to cover up a fender vent that will likely not be functional.
  — Daniel Golson, Car and Driver, 29 May 2019
• However, soon the world saw PayPal and Google surfacing, and then the dot-com boom.
  — Abhishek Rungta, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Then, about a year after the quake, the whales returned to their normal location and patterns of feeding and surfacing.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
• Walchanowicz explained that the city will dig out the old surfacing and fix any drainage issues to prevent standing water around the play structures.
  — Laura Bednar, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2019
• There were bite marks everywhere, scratches on my face, bruises surfacing, blood all over my back and chest and neck, other parts of my body dripping with it.
  — Charlotte Fox Weber, Time, 23 June 2023
• Video from the incident surfacing online showed several people pushing toward the front of the venue and asking for the doors to be opened.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
• The team will both create a full-size clay model and use Autodesk Alias, which is the surfacing software used all over the world for car design.
  — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 1 Jan. 2025
• But clearly, if Japanese air and naval forces had been able to track the submarine for two days before the surfacing, the Shang class is too noisy.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2018
• The railroad will also replace four grade crossing surfaces in Wethersfield, replace ties, switch ties with ballast and surfacing.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
• Among the new playground's features include flat rubber surfacing, ramps, an adaptive swing and musical components.
  — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
• The right question to ask early on is whether the rate of experimentation and the surfacing of new use cases are accelerating month over month.
  — Aswin Saravanan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• In the wake of the Signal chat's surfacing, top Democrats have called for an investigation into the incident.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2025
• Still, that hasn't stopped a slew of reports from surfacing in recent months that all point to a sizable update to Samsung's Galaxy Note line.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
• The playground was originally installed in 2014, and the surfacing under the equipment was installed that same year.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2022