spring up

verb

sprang up or sprung up; sprung up; springing up; springs up

: to grow or appear suddenly

The weeds sprang up overnight.

New housing developments are springing up all over the state.

Examples of spring up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Despite the barrage of new eateries springing up around them offering customers seemingly endless takeout options for lunch and dinner, the family behind Italian Express saw no reason to change what’s worked for the past four decades. —Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026

Now, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against a Coca-Cola distributor for hosting a women’s retreat could jeopardize the powerful sisterhood that sprang up to counter the old boys network, according to Saujani. —Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

And so a small crop of AI infrastructure firms has sprung up to solve what amounts to AI’s secrecy problem. —Erik German, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026

This essential genre of restaurant is garnering more attention from chefs and diners around the world, with iterations springing up outside of Hong Kong in cities like Paris, New York, and Sydney. —Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for spring up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup