uprose
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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In '55 Disney uprose, Addin' Davy Crockett to the country's woes .
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
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
Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.
From Time Magazine Archive
As it crawled forth, dripping, with its head hanging low between its fore-legs, the great snout of a crocodile uprose from out of the water, and the huge jaws snapped together.
From The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo by Gilson, Charles
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