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uprise

[uhp-rahyz, uhp-rahyz] / ʌpˈraɪz, ˈʌpˌraɪz /


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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 islands of Lipari are formed of beds of tuff, penetrated by numerous dykes of lava, from which uprise two or three craters, formed of pumice and obsidian passing into trachyte.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

Practice is for Irish Members to put question; Prince Arthur reads answer from manuscript supplied from Irish Office; then uprise in succession half-a-dozen other Irish Members, each asking fresh question.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 by Various

Proudly uprises in the middle of the square the tall pillar—an immense trophy covered with plates of bronze from the monster crucible in which the captured cannon of the Austrians were melted down.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

Then slowly and solemnly over the distant hills uprises the moon.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables

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

Each stubble-field whence uprises the lark supplies music to his ears.

From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton

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:--And her children?--Yes:

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Six millions of people had uprisen and, by a simple declaration of will, had in a few short weeks undone the work of near a century.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon

When he wrote it was a sentence of singular construction, truly indicative of how vague awe and dread had uprisen to take large standing beside simple humane solicitude.

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

He had heard the remarkable speech of his friend, Mr. Gladstone, in the Oxford Union, against the Reform Bill, and had written home regarding him, that "a man had uprisen in Israel."

From The Grand Old Man by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

Earth like a Swimmer Plunged into the dimmer Wave of the night, Now is uprisen, An Elysian vision Of spray and of light.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Duncan Campbell Scott

I stood upon the bridge uprisen to see,   So that, if I had seized not on a rock,   Down had I fallen without being pushed.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

According to Abdel Nasser Elyessa, a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies of the International Academy for Counter-Terrorism, this was a simple "uprising" within the army, without outside influence.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 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

The Flock uprising, though, is the stirrings of public understanding that none of this inevitable — and we have the right to fight back.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

At that moment, the President was speaking on the phone with the head of the uprising, who was offering him a military plane to leave the country with his family.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose.

From Time Magazine Archive

In '55 Disney uprose, Addin' Davy Crockett to the country's woes .

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week fell the 100th anniversary of Old Joe's birth, and the two sons, born to two mothers who were cousins, uprose to remind England of their heritage.

From Time Magazine Archive

For, methought we were still steering to the South, when on our larboard hand uprose a range of lofty hills, upon which it seemed to me that I could almost have jumped.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by William Young




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