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

As new hotels, restaurants, cafes and bar spring up upon hitoric foundations, the neighborhood’s renaissance is igniting Panama City’s tourism like never before. —Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025

The 50-room boutique hotel, which opened last August on a quiet residential block in Fishtown, seems to spring up out of nowhere. —Ariel Okin, Vogue, 2 July 2025

But the ancestor of the potato plant evolved to thrive in the dry, cold, high-altitude habitats that sprang up across the Andes, with the tuber enabling its ultimate survival, Knapp said. —Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 31 July 2025

And as forest managers started aerial re-seeding, even more animals were drawn in by all the fresh browse that sprung up. —Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2025

Rhymes for spring up

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