Example Sentences

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It’s an issue that has been cropping up more and more.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

The Italian dessert has been cropping up in commits since July last year.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it confirmed that the patient had monkeypox and that the infection matches the strain that has been cropping up in Nigeria since 2017.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2021

The need to achieve connection has been cropping up frequently.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2017

During the four years he has occupied the land he has been cropping it, and the crops have invariably been sold before being reaped, and as soon as reaped carried off. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.