How to Use upsurge in a Sentence

upsurge

noun

• Chicago, in fact, is on the cusp of a historic upsurge in rail freight traffic.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• The true crime genre has experienced an upsurge in the past decade.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
• That has enraged the poor, laying the ground for the next Peronist upsurge.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• Afghanistan has seen an upsurge in violence since the collapse of U.S.-Taliban peace talks last month.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• The dispute has led to an upsurge in violence in Sinaloa and other states.
  — Mark Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
• If no trading upsurge comes, Goldman may have to shrink more.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Know the signs The first sign that your skin may be responding to an upsurge in stress hormones is the increase in acne.
  — Essence, 1 Nov. 2023
• Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is in the midst of a new upsurge of union organizing.
  — Peter Dreier, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
• This isn’t the first time the Humane Society has seen a sudden upsurge in requests, Bias said.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• There could be an upsurge of grassroots activism, or there could be more despair.
  — Amber Joseph, The New York Review of Books, 19 Apr. 2020
• The upsurge of people vying for space on trails and in restaurants in the summer months means resort towns never get a break.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2021
• The coronavirus pandemic has lead to an upsurge in remote work and the likelihood is that, for many, it’s here to stay.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 9 Aug. 2020
• The recent upsurge in cases in Singapore and Japan shows how easily the virus can re-emerge.
  — Scott Gottlieb and Stephen Ostroff, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2020
• The last year has seen an upsurge in the number of women seeking public office at all levels.
  — Jennifer Agiesta, CNN, 22 Dec. 2017
• The upsurge of home baking meant the pandemic was a busy time for flour producers in Wisconsin and sparked some changes in the landscape.
  — Cathy Jakicic, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2021
• Somehow, an enormous upsurge of energy beset a patch of the field.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2015
• Taher was the second person killed a recent upsurge in homicides in Cincinnati.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2019
• Finding ways to lower that risk became even more urgent with the upsurge in internal conflicts that followed the end of the cold war.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Still, there have been prior hints that an upsurge in hiring was underway.
  — oregonlive, 13 June 2021
• The past year has seen an upsurge of seismic activity in central Italy.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
• With so much work already in the pipeline, the upsurge in design of merit is likely to continue in metro Detroit in 2018.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2017
• In any case, the emergence of the modern world seems to have been largely an upsurge of ideas and information and oppressed dissent, new wine in old skins.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• Their presentation will focus on the persistence of anti-Semitism and the upsurge in hate crimes.
  — Faith Lynch, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• At the time, there was an upsurge of Sixties-style stuff again, Creation Records and acid house, eventually Oasis.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
• And unlike the state’s last tech upsurge, which was driven by startups in and around downtown Portland, much of the activity is in the city’s suburbs.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
• The market watchers also predict an upsurge in pink sales to global markets at over 7% per year.
  — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Sep. 2021
• But an upsurge in the anti-vaccine movement was fueled by a 1998 study in the prestigious British journal The Lancet that falsely linked the measles vaccine with autism.
  — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024
• The exact rate of infection prior to the recent upsurge has not been determined.
  — Luke Taylor, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2021
• All states now offer a permanent amnesty to gun owners and in recent years there has been an upsurge in collections.
  — Philip Alpers, CNN, 1 June 2022
• While there has been an upsurge in the number of protests and student arrests around the country in recent weeks, students' activism has been ongoing for months.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 May 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024