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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How to Help Victims of the Los Angeles Wildfires Over the past few weeks, additional fires have also sprung up around the Southern California region, including the Sepulveda Fire, the Hurst Fire, the Kenneth Fire, others near San Diego as well as the Hughes Fire, which is also now fully contained. —

Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025 Did the 20-mph gust that sprung up in the afternoon topple it? —

Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 30 Jan. 2025 On the first morning of Doc, an exclusive health and longevity event that convened its inaugural meeting this past October, scoring a caffeine hit required navigating a human obstacle course that had sprung up in the overflow tent. —

Grace Huckins, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2025 And that is exactly what happened prior to the recent fires: the winters of 2022 –2023 and 2023 –2024 were unusually damp, causing more vegetation to spring up across the landscape. —

Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for spring up