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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

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

An' whin de king uprise, all de congergation crowd round li'l' black Mose, an' dey am about leben millium an' a few lift over.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

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

First it seems to be drawn in coils on the ground like a cable, then uprises as it were a little mast, then that sinks, and the coils move along again.

From Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Then at last slowly uprises Tane-mahuta, the father of forests, birds, and insects, and he struggles with his parents; in vain he strives to rend them apart with his hands and arms.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

From the center of the building uprises an enormous mass, three, four, five stories high, as high as the cathedral, perhaps higher.

From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards

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

He longed for the arrival of his father—for the strong, calm counsel of the one man in England fitted to cope with the Hell Thing which had uprisen in their midst.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer

There sitting from the deeps uprisen, he mourn'd20 The vanquished Grecians, and resentment fierce Conceived and wrath against all-ruling Jove.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

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

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

Behold this forest of uprisen spears,   Symbol of might!

From Nero by Stephen Phillips

His assignment: to foment an uprising by enslaved workers on a French colony in the Caribbean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In 1968 – a heroic precedent cited by every French protest movement – a student uprising was actually brought to an end by election.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

But even “A Different World” hit its limits when it plunged the audience inside the Black folks’ shock and despair after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

“The uprising last week was the result of frustration,” Shana says.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

Half vexed, half amused was old Dr. Warriner when the Law and LeTourneau's family promptly uprose to challenge his bold confession.

From Time Magazine Archive

Flushed with the importance of the occasion, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, arch-inflationist of Congress, uprose in the Senate last week to open debate on the White House currency bill.

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

Then an exasperated Congress uprose; henceforth thanks would be given on the fourth Thursday of each November.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not long before the disorders of his government led some of the colonies in America to declare their independence, and finally Spain too uprose.

From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly