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

Since the camp opened, several tents have sprung up nearby, just outside the gate, along the bike trail, including some people who are among the 800 on the waiting list to live in Camp Resolution. —Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024

By Wednesday afternoon, a small city sprang up inside the reenforced encampment, full of hundreds of people and tents on the campus quad. —CBS News, 2 May 2024

Soon, third-party promoters sprung up, marketing the tax break. —Laura Strickler, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024

Wolves and bears still roam the silent valleys of the Principality’s unsullied interior, and a new kind of wildlife tourism has sprung up to cater for visitors keen to peer at them through telescopes. —Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024

Why? April 5, 2024 When the flowers blossomed in 2019, a debate sprouted among airport officials and native plant experts over whether the flowers sprang up on their own or were planted. —Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024

Schools, a hospital, a post office, a library and ballfields sprung up after the Smoky Mountain village was established in 1942, but the town of Fontana Dam wasn’t incorporated until 2011. —Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2024

Most patches will spring up and fade within three weeks, so the hunt for these spring blooms is often fast and furious. —Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2024

In just the last decade, hundreds of homes have sprung up along the Caltrain line, transforming the downtowns of cities in the Peninsula and South Bay. —Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024