spring up

phrasal 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

Hundreds of crypto ATMs have sprung up along the city’s busy streets. —John Liu, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025

Pulpy titles such as The Phantom Creeps, Zombies of the Stratosphere, and Flying Disc Man from Mars featured at cinemas and drive-ins across America, and parallel sci-fi film industries quickly sprang up all across the globe. —Nick Foster august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025

The Performative Male Starter Pack The Performative Male didn’t just spring up overnight. —Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

Pop stars are already in some sense products, but the communities of fans that spring up around them are very real. —Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for spring up

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