uprose
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Next day lean, keen Chairman Nye uprose defiantly in the Senate, dismissed the Connally attack as "gutter English," repeated and documented his charge against Wilson and Lansing, cried: "I am wholly unashamed of my course."
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As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs.
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Then an exasperated Congress uprose; henceforth thanks would be given on the fourth Thursday of each November.
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Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality.
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The second process was initiated by the uplifting of the mountain ranges to their present height, at which time the diorites, those ore indicators of the globe, uprose through the sedimentary strata.
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