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Example sentences for: upsurge

How can you use “upsurge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Over the past few years, though, the dramatic upsurge in money pouring into the market and the resultant pressure on institutional investors to improve their performance have sharply increased the value of anyone with a clue about what's going to happen to the pharmaceutical industry--or to chemicals, or to semiconductors.
Why the upsurge of interest?
And although, for instance, the Times mentions an upsurge of unsafe sex practices among gay men, and the problems of instilling effective prevention among intravenous drug users, USAT never mentions the words "gay" or "sex" or "intravenous drugs."
Seriously, I think the dirty secret that helps explain the upsurge in adventure travel and other forms of risk-taking is that Americans are bored with prosperity.
A front-page WSJ feature on the current upsurge in home buying notes a troublesome undercurrent.