uprose
Americanverb
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.
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
Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose.
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 Cahan, Abraham
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
