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Sentences with up

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  • They were climbing up a narrow mountain road.
  • Finally, after an hour, I went up to Jeremy's room.
  • The preposition is pronounced (ʌp ). The adverb and adjective are pronounced (ʌp ).
  • He was up a ladder sawing off the tops of his apple trees.
  • Paul answered, without looking up.
  • He stood up and went to the window.
  • A line of tanks came up the road from the city.
  • I'll be up to see you tomorrow.
  • The girl ran the rest of the way across the street and up to the car. [+ to]
  • They recently put my rent up.
  • Are you sure you should be up?
  • The moment the half-hour was up, Brooks rose.
  • Half the road was up in Leadenhall Street, so their taxi was obliged to make a detour.
  • Those patients who were up to it could move to the adjacent pool.
  • Why did you need a room unless you were up to something?
  • It was up to him to make it right, no matter how long it took.
  • Up to twenty thousand students paid between five and six thousand dollars.
  • A third of the Senate and the entire House are up for re-election.
  • He upped his offer for the company. [VERB noun]
  • A man who for months had been dropping amorous hints about a long-term relationship upped and disappeared to America. [V and v]
  • Climbing up a mountain
  • Soot up the chimney
  • Looking up at the stars
  • He tore up the cheque
  • The man came up and asked the way
  • up to London
  • up to Scotland
  • up north
  • The sun is up
  • up before the magistrate
  • Ten pounds up on the deal
  • Coffee is up again
  • The plan was up for consideration
  • Well up in physics
  • up with you!
  • The children aren't up yet
  • The up platform
  • The examiner announced that their time was up
  • Three goals up by half-time
  • She upped and married someone else
  • From childhood up
  • With prices going up
  • To bring a matter up
  • To get worked up
  • Lay up grain for the winter
  • Keep up with the times
  • Eat up the pie
  • To rein up a horse
  • Put up the helm
  • Look up this word; he didn't turn up
  • Dress up, eat up, clean up
  • Light up a cigarette, write up a story
  • up the social ladder
  • up the road
  • To cruise up the coast
  • Rents are up
  • Her anger was up
  • Time is up
  • To have two dollars up on a horse
  • What's up?
  • He up and left
  • To up prices
  • The score is seven up
  • There was no one to help him when he was up against it.
  • During her convalescence she longed to be up and doing.
  • He paced up and down.
  • The child is up for adoption. Three actresses are up for the role.
  • She went wading up to her knees. I am up to the eighth lesson.
  • To climb up to the top of a ladder.
  • To stand up.
  • To get up.
  • The moon came up.
  • To follow a stream up to its source.
  • To move up in a firm; to pump up a tire; to turn a lantern up; Prices are going up. Speak up! Hurry up!
  • He managed to get up on his opponent by three points.
  • To keep up with the latest developments in mathematics.
  • To set up vibrations.
  • His insults left her all roiled up.
  • His sample was worked up in the studio.
  • The lost papers have turned up.
  • To lay up riches; to put up preserves.
  • To add up a column of figures; to fold up.
  • To pay up one's debts; burned up.
  • She finished it all up.
  • The riders reined up and dismounted.
  • Go wake your father up. What plugged it up? We laughed it up.
  • The golfer was two strokes up on his nearest competitor.
  • The score was seven up in the final quarter.
  • Bring me a martini, up.
  • Put the helm up.
  • They went up the stairs. The cat is up the tree.
  • He is well up the social ladder.
  • She is up the street. I'm going up the street.
  • up the stream.
  • The explorers were up north.
  • To row up the current.
  • The up elevator; the up train traveling north; the up platform of a railroad station.
  • She is always up on current events.
  • The game is up. Your hour is up.
  • What's up over there?
  • He is up in society.
  • The gate at the railroad crossing is up. The tent is up.
  • The corn is up and ready to be harvested.
  • The meteorological balloons are up. The airplanes are up for their reconnaissance flights.
  • The sun is up.
  • To be up with insomnia.
  • He knows which jockeys are up in every race.
  • The tide is up.
  • The new museum is up and open to the public.
  • He is resting and his face is up.
  • A torn-up road.
  • Many territories were up and preparing to send troops against the government.
  • Beware of him when his temper is up.
  • A string of up months for the company.
  • Her nervous manner told me that something was up.
  • The team was definitely up for the game.
  • She was on a ship up for Australia.
  • They knew that their game was up.
  • The price of meat was up.
  • He is rather spry for a man so up in years.
  • The captain wished to set sail as soon as the wind was up.
  • He is up for murder.
  • The theater's lights are up.
  • He won the game with two points up over his opponent.
  • A candidate up for reelection; a bill that is up before Congress.
  • He won all the money up in the game.
  • They live in a village two miles up from the coast.
  • It was 10 up at the end of the first half.
  • They scored three times in a row to go two up.
  • He has had more ups than downs in his career.
  • People who were ups in the business world suffered losses in the economic depression.
  • The landlord promised his tenants there would be no further ups in the rent this year.
  • To up output.
  • To up the ante.
  • Then he upped and ran away from home.
  • Up, men, and fight until all the enemy are defeated!
  • He realized it was all up with him when the search party began to close in.
  • He seems to be on the up and up.
  • They were up against formidable obstacles.
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