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
The miners clapped, and then uprose to howl approval as they got the point�that with C.I.O.'s voting strength John Lewis stood to win either way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day lean, keen Chairman Nye uprose defiantly in the Senate, dismissed the Connally attack as "gutter English," repeated and documented his charge against Wilson and Lansing, cried: "I am wholly unashamed of my course."
From Time Magazine Archive
As the earth protruded more and more, and dry and sometimes rocky land uprose, such beasts as frequented the hills found that their hoofs were changing slowly with the centuries.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley
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