uprose
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Last week fell the 100th anniversary of Old Joe's birth, and the two sons, born to two mothers who were cousins, uprose to remind England of their heritage.
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
Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken.
From Time Magazine Archive
So saying she uprose from the wheel and took a snowy skein from the reel on the table, and adjusted it upon her mother’s outstretched hands.
From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Madison, Lucy Foster
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