Sentences with up against
up a·gainst
U u - The chairwoman is up against the greatest challenge to her position.
- Look what we're up against now
- To climb up to the top of a ladder.
- To stand up.
- To get up.
- If you try to change the school schedule like that, you'll be up against legions of angry parents.
- The moon came up.
- If the tree grows up against the garden wall then either the tree will be crowded and stunted or the wall will be pushed out.
- 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.
- 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.