uprise

Example Sentences

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“Then another horrible incident occurs and the faculty uprise in such a quick manner, like a wildfire,” Tierney said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2018

It is a shameful aspect of the human kind that the nations who uprise against one dictator always choose another one in its place.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018

"Versace's team knows how to do the look," says Kal Ruttenstein, the fashion director at Bloomingdale's, pointing out that sales of Versace merchandise at his company's stores have been "all on the uprise."

From Time Magazine Archive

The uprise of an idea, perception of a principle, makes many one and inseparable.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

For you shall granite peaks uprise As old and scornful as your race, And fringed with firths of lucent dyes The jewelled beach your limbs embrace.

From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)