uprose
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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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
Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.
From Time Magazine Archive
As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week in Manhattan, Chancellor Chase uprose to dedicate a memorial tablet to his institution's most famed professor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph.
From Time Magazine Archive
The figure of his dead father, attired in burial linen, uprose to his mind.
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan
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