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

At each turn the vista showed a loftier uprise, crest peering above crest, and far beyond, high and snow-touched, the summits of the Sierra.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine

For all my dead, on battle plain, Thou biddest my dying now uprise: I still my sobs, I cease my tears, And thou hast recompensed my anguished years.

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous