uprise
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“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
The islands of Lipari are formed of beds of tuff, penetrated by numerous dykes of lava, from which uprise two or three craters, formed of pumice and obsidian passing into trachyte.
From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull
Formed along lines of continental displacement in the crust, they have again and again given relief from the strain of compression by fresh crumpling, fracture and uprise.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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
Then slowly and solemnly over the distant hills uprises the moon.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
Jonah, jangling, uprises, and makes himself a bower, of hay and ever-fern, to shield him from the sun.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
Each stubble-field whence uprises the lark supplies music to his ears.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
After a time uprises the everlasting sun; and the mother starts up at the summons of the heavenly dawn, with a resurrection of her ancient bloom.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
The fallen tent had uprisen, and in the gathering twilight it flapped ghostly arms about and titubated toward them drunkenly.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London
Earth like a Swimmer Plunged into the dimmer Wave of the night, Now is uprisen, An Elysian vision Of spray and of light.
From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Duncan Campbell Scott
For here was instantly recognized the challenge of a radical spirit uprisen in full and ruthless rebellion against each and every time-hallowed usage and tradition.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
Our Britain! uprisen in the splendour Of your white wrath at treacheries so vile; Roused from your sleep, become once more defender Of those high things which make life worth life's while!
From 'All's Well!' by John Oxenham
O love, stand beside me; the sun is uprisen On the first day of London; and shame hath been here.
From The Pilgrims of Hope by William Morris
Deraa is widely seen as the birthplace of the uprising against Assad's rule.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
She characterised the uprising as more than "merely an ordinary student protest".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Who keeps us safe?” began a popular call-and-response protest chant I first heard during the George Floyd uprising and that resurfaced during Metro Surge.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Casting Luddites as anti-technology has mired a historical labor uprising as a destructive tantrum thrown by fearful, hidebound cranks.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
My first glimpse of an uprising in District 8.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Half vexed, half amused was old Dr. Warriner when the Law and LeTourneau's family promptly uprose to challenge his bold confession.
From Time Magazine Archive
In '55 Disney uprose, Addin' Davy Crockett to the country's woes .
From Time Magazine Archive
Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rapt and gleaming-eyed in Cleveland's vast Public Hall sat the delegates when their beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote.
From Time Magazine Archive
The words were said, and there uprose A low and stifled moan— Then all was still—The spirit of That stricken one had flown!
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
