spring up

VERB
  1. come into existence; take on form or shape
    a love that sprang up from friendship
    An interesting phenomenon uprose
    A new religious movement originated in that country
    the idea for the book grew out of a short story
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How To Use spring up In A Sentence

  • Watching a bamboo cane spring upright when it has been laden to the ground is quite magical. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eight Corinthian pillars sentineled it, resting on a marble base which seemed to spring up out of the flag-stones themselves, and towering to the projecting entablature above. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
  • Gale-force winds spring up with little warning, whipping the surface of the lakes into a frenzy of white-capped waves.
  • Look for instance at plants: vandalized trees send out new shoots, grass grows on rubbish dumps, flowers spring up in scrap yards.
  • The flowers spring up from a rosette of heart-shaped leaves at the base. Times, Sunday Times
  • Was it not historically certain therefore that, should the Supernatural ever be reaccepted in all its force, a partnership should again spring up between a State that needed a Divine authority behind its own, and the sole Institution which was not afraid to stand out for the Supernatural with all its consequences? Dawn of All
  • Surely, if any spot in the world be sacred, it is that in which grief ceases, and for which, if the voice within our hearts mocks us not with an everlasting lie, we spring upon the untiring wings of a pangless and seraphic life ” those whom we love around us ” our nature, universal intelligence, our atmosphere, eternal love.” Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
  • According to Egyptian law, presidential approval is required for any new church to be built but mosques tend to spring up with comparative ease. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pithecanthropus was the first to reach it and the ape-man saw him spring upward for a handhold on the lowest peg above him. Tarzan the Terrible
  • The fix includes snipping underneath the skin to sever the connective tissue, causing the scar to spring up.
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