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

Armed groups have sprung up across the Niger Delta in recent decades, alongside criminal networks who steal crude oil to pressure the government to deliver more oil benefits to host communities. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 17 July 2026

The movies were once a working- and middle-class pleasure—cheap Nickelodeon theaters sprung up in the early 1900s in cities dense with immigrants. — Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

As the nation steered into wartime and beyond, innumerable new companies would spring up and tailor their own version of the good word. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

For proof of their drought-tolerant hardiness, look no further than the liatris plants that spring up on road sides everywhere from Ontario to Florida and Texas. — Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 15 July 2026

Rhymes for spring up

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