Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

uprise

[uhp-rahyz, uhp-rahyz] / ʌpˈraɪz, ˈʌpˌraɪz /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

“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

Coil writhed in coil, the roughening scales uprise, The crest points up, the hissing tongue defies.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

He would not uprise spontaneously to the point of war on the mere statement of incarcerated beauty—especially as ill-treatment was not apparent.

From The Killer by Stewart Edward White

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

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 Aubertine Woodward Moore

Each stubble-field whence uprises the lark supplies music to his ears.

From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton

Then at last slowly uprises Tane-mahuta, the father of forests, birds, and insects, and he struggles with his parents; in vain he strives to rend them apart with his hands and arms.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

Proudly uprises in the middle of the square the tall pillar—an immense trophy covered with plates of bronze from the monster crucible in which the captured cannon of the Austrians were melted down.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

For lo! the world's great Shepherd now is born, A blessed Babe, an Infant full of power: After long night uprisen is the morn, Renowning Bethlem in the Saviour.

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler

Six millions of people had uprisen and, by a simple declaration of will, had in a few short weeks undone the work of near a century.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon

He longed for the arrival of his father—for the strong, calm counsel of the one man in England fitted to cope with the Hell Thing which had uprisen in their midst.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer

Indeed such rattle as he rated it, Is it not strange, and passing precedent, That the illustrious chief of Government Should have uprisen with such indecent speed And strenuously replied?

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

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 F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Nationwide, some 50,000 people were detained in connection to the uprising, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a U.S.-based rights group that monitors the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

According to Abdel Nasser Elyessa, a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies of the International Academy for Counter-Terrorism, this was a simple "uprising" within the army, without outside influence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Flock uprising, though, is the stirrings of public understanding that none of this inevitable — and we have the right to fight back.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

In June of 1976, we began to hear vague reports of a great uprising in the country.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next day lean, keen Chairman Nye uprose defiantly in the Senate, dismissed the Connally attack as "gutter English," repeated and documented his charge against Wilson and Lansing, cried: "I am wholly unashamed of my course."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus last week Lord Rothermere uprose to speak for Lord Mottistone's motion to appoint a Cabinet Minister to co-ordinate British defenses against attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Washington one evening last week a gaunt, kindly old man uprose before a small group of people, including 20-odd Congressmen, and began to talk softly but zealously.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the Mundurucú hastily uprose, flinging aside the swimming-belts hitherto held in his hands.

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid




Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com