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

What sprang up there was this soulless bowl, totally lacking in the character and atmosphere of the club’s old Elm Park home. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

More than a dozen such gatherings have since sprung up in cities across North America, South America and Europe. — Terry Chea, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

Webrings are another pre-Google artifact that recalls an era when microcommunities sprang up, not unlike those in the BBS era, from groups of people sharing niche interests, sometimes even local to one another in the real world. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Since Russia’s invasion in 2022, thousands of companies have sprung up as fighting numerically superior forces requires constant innovation, rapid fielding, and mass production. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for spring up

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