Sentence examples for it cropped up from inspiring English sources

The mural, which shows a young boy, stenciled in black and white, sepia and gray, creating red, white and blue Union Jacks on a sweatshop-era sewing machine, made its first splash last May, when it cropped up on a wall in the Turnpike Lane neighborhood of North London.

But the argument has since made its way across the political spectrum: by June it cropped up in both the New Republic and Mother Jones.

It cropped up in books, TV series and newspaper articles.

It cropped up a bit in her spring 2015 collection, ironically dedicated to "boring fashion".

Then, about 10 years ago, it cropped up on various Pacific islands.

It cropped up again during his appearance on Desert Island Discs this week.

The museum found so many images of it cropping up on Flickr that it organized its own amateur photography contest this winter.

"Variations of it crop up in the books and films".

I see it crop up in my Spotify playlists: "Darker indie for your moods".

I agree, and yet I seem to see it cropping up more and more.

Then we noticed it cropping up in all the right places, from Martha Lane Fox to the more stylish quarters of Instagram.