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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

We saw deep forests far away Kindle to meet the kiss of day; And mists with morn's delight uprise Like love thoughts in a maiden's eyes.

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan

And should your maiden heart uprise Against fain ears and full-fain eyes, Upon your lips, that cannot err, I set my kiss-interpreter!

From Eyes of Youth A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O. by Various

Springing from the deepest and best that is implanted in man, it fertilizes the soil from which it uprises.

From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Moore, Aubertine Woodward

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

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

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 Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Nino uprises, scared, he knows not how, The dreams still pale about his burdened brow.

From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Lampman, Archibald

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

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 Hay, Ian

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

His son, Lord Lincoln, had heard Gladstone’s speech against the Reform Bill delivered in the Oxford Union, and had written home that “a man had uprisen in Israel.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

But who is he, uprisen, with eye so keen, In garb of shining plush of grassy green— Dogs climbing round him, eager for the start, With ceaseless tail, and doubly beating heart?

From May Day with the Muses by Bloomfield, Robert

Then all at once, the whole dream-world vanishes, like uprisen ghosts at the crowing of the cock.

From Memories A Story of German Love by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

She characterised the uprising as more than "merely an ordinary student protest".

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

“Who keeps us safe?” began a popular call-and-response protest chant I first heard during the George Floyd uprising and that resurfaced during Metro Surge.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

During her time in Latin America, she covered the suicide of former president of Peru, Alan Garcia; a World Cup tournament in Lima's prisons; and the 2018 violent uprising against President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

When plans by PG&E to build a nuclear power plant at heavenly Bodega Head triggered an uprising.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Two nights ago after dark, a group of young men had run through Santiago, distributing leaflets under doors, urging an uprising.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Then uprose brave Sir Launcelot And there did mount his steed, And hastened to a pleasant town That stood in knightly need.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee




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