uprose
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Flushed with the importance of the occasion, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, arch-inflationist of Congress, uprose in the Senate last week to open debate on the White House currency bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Premier Bouisson, flushed with success, uprose to lecture the Chamber in schoolmasterly fashion, telling them to wind up their affairs and go home in a week.
From Time Magazine Archive
When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Then an exasperated Congress uprose; henceforth thanks would be given on the fourth Thursday of each November.
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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