Sentences with buy up
buy up
B b - The mention of price rises sent citizens out to their shops to buy up as much as they could. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- To buy favor with flattery.
- The Yankees bought a new center fielder.
- Most public officials cannot be bought.
- Ten dollars buys less than it used to.
- He bought an ace.
- I don't buy that explanation.
- That coat was a sensible buy.
- The couch was a real buy.
- He bought it at Dunkirk.
- The marshland was bought up by a housing company.
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.