How to Use spring up in a Sentence

spring up

phrasal verb
Definition of spring upnext
  • Beaver Nuggets are about to spring up in the Tar Heel State.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Many of these programs have sprung up around the country in just the past 10 years.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Strong winds and large hail are the main threats with the severe storms that could spring up overnight, Fano said.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • Though the storm is no longer present, others have sprung up since then in its place.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Around them, shops have sprung up in yet more of the boxes lined up like train cars along the main roads.
    — Nimet Kirac Nicole Tung, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • New neighborhoods of Riyadh sprang up to cater for a new way of life.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • The relief hub that had sprung up at the plaza, outside the restaurant, was set to close soon.
    — Anumita Kaur and Tamir Kalifa, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Entire towns have sprung up in the jungle around the mining sites.
    — Simeon Tegel, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
  • And of course, actual fight clubs have sprung up, stateside and across the world.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
  • More than two dozen upscale omakase bars have sprung up from downtown to the South Bay over the past decade or so.
    — Claire Wang, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Tribunes of the people have sprung up to rail against the Eastern elites for centuries.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
  • Vast tent camps have sprung up in the south, where heavy rain in recent days has worsened the misery.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • So the memorial that had sprung up for Ernie next to one of the water fountains grew.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Over the last 18 months, a drug encampment sprung up below a school.
    — Catarina Fernandes Martins, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • The Klan sprang up largely in response to Black suffrage.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • As O’Connor headed for the door, three of us sprang up without thinking.
    — WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Houses and schools were springing up in place of farms and desert landscape.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But within the last few years, these pilgrimage-style walks have sprung up all over the world.
    — Erin Vivid Riley, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • But there was a cult around him, of a kind that springs up regularly.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2023
  • And then bars and galleries and everything sprung up around it.
    — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Thrift stores that sell used clothes and goods are springing up online and on street corners.
    — Joshua Kirby, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Demonstrations and protests sprang up around the country, calling for justice in the death of 36-year-old Sonya Massey.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Darby Hart, as a character, sort of sprung up fully formed, in a way.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In cities such as Matamoros, down the river from Reynosa, enormous camps had sprung up, filled with those waiting to cross.
    — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The Hamilton Center is one of many such centers springing up around the nation.
    — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Since the early 2000s, Thai restaurants have sprung up across the U.S. like flowers after a spring shower.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2024
  • In just the last decade, hundreds of homes have sprung up along the Caltrain line, transforming the downtowns of cities in the Peninsula and South Bay.
    — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Protests sprung up against the curfew and turned violent, leading to a small riot.
    — Ella Howard / Made By History, TIME, 10 July 2024
  • Plans for the free livestream event, set for 5pm Wednesday, sprung up in the days after President Biden handed the torch to Harris.
    — Shawna Chen, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a grass-roots citizens’ group, sprung up to fill the void.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024

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