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.

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In the 1990s, after the Oslo Accords, a new type of settlement sprang up. —

Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024 Come morning, they were allowed to return to their homes, only to be ordered back to the library again the next night as fire sprang up close to the other side of campus on Tuesday. —

Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024 This happens when the fungus Candida, which is a normal microbe that lives in your mouth, overgrows and sometimes causes cottage-cheese like patches to spring up on your tongue, inner cheeks, gums, tonsils, or roof of your mouth. —

Katie Camero, SELF, 27 Nov. 2024 New Yorkers hate sidewalk scaffolding, the omnipresent structures that seemingly spring up overnight and obstruct pedestrian traffic for years at a time. —

Jamie Rubin, New York Daily News, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for spring up