uprise
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
“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
![]()
Nevertheless this period of linguistic degradation witnessed the uprise of a most remarkable institution for popularising "the Art of Poesy."
From History of Holland by George Edmundson
Horologes, to chime the hours, and even the quarters, uprise from tables of ebony-and-mother-of-pearl.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various
Then, from bench below him, uprises a bent, slight figure, looking less like a man of war than most things.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 by Various
From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
Then the day uprises as if conscious of his inner life and purpose.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various
After a time uprises the everlasting sun; and the mother starts up at the summons of the heavenly dawn, with a resurrection of her ancient bloom.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
First it seems to be drawn in coils on the ground like a cable, then uprises as if it were a little mast, then that sinks, and the coils move along again.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
The fallen tent had uprisen, and in the gathering twilight it flapped ghostly arms about and titubated toward them drunkenly.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London
Indeed such rattle as he rated it, Is it not strange, and passing precedent, That the illustrious chief of Government Should have uprisen with such indecent speed And strenuously replied?
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
Now they have uprisen, and, asseverating that classical education is a pricked bubble, ask boldly for expensive apparatus and a larger tract of space in the time-table.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay
And when at last, among the oaks, we came Upon the top, a perfect voice Thrilled in the air like flame— Was it uprisen death we heard?
From The New World by Witter Bynner
For here was instantly recognized the challenge of a radical spirit uprisen in full and ruthless rebellion against each and every time-hallowed usage and tradition.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
After an antiroyal uprising, Condé ended up in exile, where he supported himself by writing for stamp magazines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He is doing it on the 50th birthday of an elegant declaration spawned by a citizen uprising aimed at preserving the state’s greatest treasure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
During the first intifada or uprising, which began in 1987, Mansour helped found the New Vision collective with other artists, including Tamari.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
She also sidestepped questions about whether she regretted any of her decisions during the uprising.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
A slow push was under way to reemphasize the rehabilitative possibilities of prison in New York State when, on September 9, 1971, the Attica prison uprising began.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
![]()
Last week, after weeks of preliminary rumblings, Premier Hepburn uprose in the Ontario Parliament in Toronto and begged leave to introduce a bill repudiating the contracts one & all as "illegal, void and unenforceable."
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Thus last week Lord Rothermere uprose to speak for Lord Mottistone's motion to appoint a Cabinet Minister to co-ordinate British defenses against attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Last week in Manhattan, Chancellor Chase uprose to dedicate a memorial tablet to his institution's most famed professor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
And I uprose and left him, and in all peace took my path Forth to my Chosen, recking light of Pentheus and his wrath.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes