How to Use crop up in a Sentence

crop up

verb
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  • Scams already cropped up after Helene tore through six states.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Since then, contests have cropped up by the dozens in rural areas around the country put on by local fire departments, 4-H chapters, and major hunting outfitters.
    — Britta Lokting, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Over time, Gabriella Thomas has noticed a trend: Resources to help college students like her navigate the stressors of school are cropping up everywhere.
    — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Were there certain themes that cropped up time and again?
    — Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And finally, there are the injuries and bumps in the road that crop up in the next four weeks.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Use the store's app to see what's cropping up at your local shop.
    — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But, other events for the public will be cropping up across the city.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • And this is one of those pro-police nonprofits that have cropped up in a bunch of cities.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Swastikas have cropped up on school lockers and college dorms.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That tension, the real versus the ideal, crops up again and again in Flock’s project.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The headaches tend to crop up more among males and people with a history of migraines.
    — Carla Delgado, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Now a new term is starting to crop up in these announcements: AI.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 May 2024
  • But the Murdaugh name, and the name of Murdaugh’s surviving son, Buster, cropped up throughout the case.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The landscape of the western United States is full of the boom and bust towns that cropped up during the 19th Century.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
  • And while his play took a downturn in 2023, injuries also cropped up.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
  • Aurora kept on cropping up in both Patrick and my lives.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Even casual visitors to a graveyard can take note of the names and dates that crop up time and again.
    — Katy Kelleher, Outside Online, 27 June 2024
  • Possible signs of these complex tax headaches cropped up a month ago.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2024
  • Price pain could crop up elsewhere if the East Coast port strike, which began Tuesday, drags on longer than a week.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Steam Try taking an extra-long, hot shower when a cough crops up.
    — Jessica Migala, Health, 19 June 2024
  • There were some pretty wild animal stories that have cropped up the past few days.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 3 July 2023
  • Other games have certainly cropped up to give you more than just one puzzle to solve each day.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Over the past 175 or so years, a bustling neighborhood has cropped up around the sleepy grounds, but Cave Hill has remained a quiet oasis.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
  • Jupiter in Taurus will be opening up your world near the 6th and 7th, and new prospects that crop up near the 9th seem to be somehow liberating and lucky.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2023
  • These blooms are even starting to crop up in Lake Superior.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Some severe storms could crop up again in Central Indiana Wednesday as a line of them move in throughout the day.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Mood boards with images, or pins, of Japanese food, fashion, and décor are cropping up all over the site.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Some of the puck management issues that have frequently haunted the Sharks this season cropped up again as they were sent to their eighth straight loss.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Thousands of hoop houses cropped up and police were overwhelmed, nailing only a fraction of the sites.
    — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • Those fault lines are on view from the start, with hints of trouble cropping up during an after-party celebrating the end of the shoot.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023

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