How to Use spring up in a Sentence

spring up

phrasal verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024