How to Use spring up in a Sentence

spring up

phrasal verb
Definition of spring upnext
  • Trim about a third of the plant back, and cut the shoots that spring up from the base of the plant.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • But the dedication to her craft did not spring up out of nowhere.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 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
  • As quickly as firefighters have doused the flames across the region, more fires have sprung up.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
  • This isn't the first X-rated surprise to spring up on social media in the lead-up to Christmas.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The hope is that a network of micro travel companies will spring up around the trail.
    — Madeline Weinfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Cut off shoots that spring up, and remove any diseased or dead branches.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Come morning, they were allowed to return to their homes, only to be ordered back to the library again the next night as fire sprang up close to the other side of campus on Tuesday.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In the weeks since, similar look-alike contests have sprung up all over the country, organized by different people for their own strange reasons.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024

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