How to Use upsurge in a Sentence

upsurge

noun
  • The true crime genre has experienced an upsurge in the past decade.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • If no trading upsurge comes, Goldman may have to shrink more.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Chicago, in fact, is on the cusp of a historic upsurge in rail freight traffic.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Still, there have been prior hints that an upsurge in hiring was underway.
    — oregonlive, 13 June 2021
  • The dispute has led to an upsurge in violence in Sinaloa and other states.
    — Mark Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
  • That has enraged the poor, laying the ground for the next Peronist upsurge.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Somehow, an enormous upsurge of energy beset a patch of the field.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2015
  • But trading that against the potential benefit of many years of upsurge?
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • 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 in labor organizing is in part a way for workers to gain some sort of say about what happens to their jobs.
    — Robert Forrant, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
  • 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 move marked the latest in an upsurge of recession fears on Wall Street in recent weeks.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The past year has seen an upsurge of seismic activity in central Italy.
    — John Hooper, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
  • This comes alongside a sharp upsurge in the percentage of people who've noticed rising prices.
    — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Taher was the second person killed a recent upsurge in homicides in Cincinnati.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The exact rate of infection prior to the recent upsurge has not been determined.
    — Luke Taylor, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The flip side is that [a rebranding] doesn’t immediately lead to an upsurge in [sales] volume.
    — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • So it's been an upsurge in violence over the last couple of weeks, which is really unprecedented for us.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 June 2026
  • 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
  • Their presentation will focus on the persistence of anti-Semitism and the upsurge in hate crimes.
    — Faith Lynch, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Why is there such an upsurge in food allergies in the United States or in Western nations?
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The upsurge in interest in the library’s data is also reflected in the numbers.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • For aspiring homeowners, the upsurge in borrowing costs is a major headache.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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