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    Use "up" in a sentence

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    1. Jorma had lived with Venna almost two years now, one while she learned to sail, well; on their way up from the Yakhan, and another here on North Island of Sinbara


    2. "There have been years it would be possible to stay here for Dusksleep up until Garibivlast," he said


    3. "Let me run up and see what's taking her so long


    4. Soon Ava continued on up to the house and Venna came quickly down the remaining path


    5. " She turned and bent over to pick up the quilt, making sure the guy in the boat could see her spreading


    6. He was pulled up sideways to the dock beside their lake sprite which was still tied on the end of the dock for the party


    7. He had pulled up as the tide stopped its flow, in a few hours it would start its ebb from this inlet


    8. Can a fireman who wants to build a great cavern do that by blasting a solid rock with a fire hose for a week straight, staying up with every bit of energy that he has, holding the hose blasting it at full power


    9. Next up then – and with my expectations now slightly lowered – came


    10. One could sit up when seated on the low benches

    11. your life? You are in the moment of giving up


    12. are about to give up on your faith


    13. Could you read ten pages when you wake up in the morning? I know


    14. you’re busy, but isn’t it possible to read ten pages when you wake up in the morning, you jump into your book to wake up your mind


    15. "But we made for you also, I invite you to come up


    16. "I think Venna needs to catch up on some sleep


    17. I would sail Bahia San Marcos and up the river between the old warehouses


    18. You don’t give up and it has paid off


    19. You could have got me up," she told Jorma


    20. "It was already made when I woke up," he said

    21. "Nice," she said, but went up the path toward the house, taking her cup and toothbrush with her


    22. if she helps with the dishes or tidy up their toys


    23. He lay on his side, up on his elbow, "So you're back with Herndon again


    24. ” The second thing that happens is the universe says, “Ooh, look at this, somebody woke up, somebody knows


    25. If you're not specific you don’t give your brain and the universe an exact point where they need to end up


    26. Vera pours out a beer and straightens herself up, raising her nose in the air


    27. I woke up one day, and I realized something


    28. She hands me a box of booze wrapped up with twine


    29. to adjust her approach and think up a new plan


    30. "If he didn't have a starship to cut up, he could never afford it; but it is fast

    31. I say the word 'palm tree' today but my mind brings up the picture of a nullbreak hangleaf


    32. “We all had good imaginations back then,” Kevin says, his nose up in the air


    33. I always wanted a pet bird growing up but Dad said they wouldn’t have survived the winter


    34. I want you to set yourself up to win


    35. “The instructors were made up mostly of police officers and veterans, but we were only civilians


    36. ” They glare at each other until Kevin throws up his hands and waves for us both to continue


    37. "Yeah, I looked up that fiction you mentioned, 'Frankensteined back to life' is my best memory of the words you used


    38. No matter how hard you try to change it, unless you come up with a new way to measure time, you have 24 hours in your day, seven days in


    39. months, into years and all that time adds up to your lifetime


    40. I’m going to show you a staggering number that should wake you up

    41. My original view [since revised!] was that “if you can’t give it away you might as well give up!” I also wanted to distribute copies to gain feedback as family and friends are not always the best critics


    42. So anyway, what was the take up rate I hear you enquire? How would


    43. Dad said that only a weird, sad man picks up prostitutes


    44. "Ah," she said and also stood up


    45. Do the math, add it up and be honest with yourself


    46. Any ambitious up and coming actors / actresses should watch out for


    47. I know I shouldn’t have let this get to me—my parents were just trying to do what was best for me—but it still bothered me that my life growing up was so intertwined with a murderer like Robert Hansen


    48. Being a police officer meant he and his family had to be held up to a higher standard


    49. "Yeah, or we could go up on the porch?" Jorma said


    50. "Then you are very much more like me than like her, no matter what color the sun was where you grew up














































    1. He tells us we are two weeks over due and our debts, which had both been at around the €3000 mark are now over €13000 and weekly payments have been upped from just over €250 per week to over €1000 a week to get them paid off within term


    2. They had a lot of it installed and it had upped their deployed length to three hundred eighty thousand miles, with the corresponding increase in scoop radius


    3. I understand that Bunty just upped and presented herself at the Embassy one day offering her services in a secretarial capacity


    4. She just upped and told me she was leaving home


    5. She is very serious love but she is holding her own and Dr Durkin has upped her pain medication so that should help ease her a little


    6. Only the next day, he upped the claim to one million American lives saved


    7. In the midst of his failed attempt at a counter, another one of the HHB’s bounced out into the circle, fearing we’ve one upped them


    8. to 2100, Gore upped the ante and spoke about a twenty-foot rise within our own lifetime


    9. The killing machine upped his pace and continued to land a mesmerising and unstoppable number of blows; Azeth’s left arm was eventually hacked from its socket as he failed to keep pace, the second blade quickly followed piercing his ribs


    10. We"ve just got word that the South East Asian Alliance has just upped its defence condition from

    11. Nick upped sticks and moved to live with her in Vancouver soon after their marriage


    12. ” After thinking about that, she upped the page 93


    13. Darren’s mum hadn’t coped well with living alone, and shortly after Mike left had upped sticks and moved, lock, stock and barrel to live near her favourite son


    14. When he upped sticks he’d sold his house in Leicester for a very good price, and he could have bought a much better property in Abermôr


    15. end of the upped ledge


    16. We’re all probably familiar with young people and their unbelievable skateboard skills, but Williams pointed out that now these athletes have taken it to another level: they’ve upped the danger


    17. ’ Stephi coughed, upped a gear and indicated to move around a truck


    18. miasma within him – the pain, the cry to the betrayal of his youth, upped and gone and


    19. Carla believed Jason was ready for the hard questions now and upped the dose of Scopolamine


    20. Don't you miss her since she upped and walked away

    21. What each player in this scenario does not realize is that they have upped the


    22. ‘It’s Jim… he just upped and buggered off!’ Said Komodo scratching his


    23. I’ve upped the surveillance and the guys have been taking turns searching the grounds


    24. ” He upped the throttle


    25. Nick upped the security around Kathy’s house and Kathy herself


    26. Some of the girls were top swimmers and upped their scores with record-breaking, breath-hold dives


    27. Maybe the frakking dungfly wasn’t quite so dumb as she’d thought, though, because it now began to buzz frantically around the cabin, faster than before and staying lit nowhere for more than a moment, as if it somehow realized that the ante had just been upped


    28. After all, the bastard’s just done ten years for violent assault and rape—perhaps he’s upped the ante?”


    29. Its security team had upped the ante, intent on playing an even faster-paced, higher-stakes game of money and fun than usual


    30. Each move upped the ante, bringing larger and larger threats of violence until finally exploding into all-out war

    31. "That poor woman, her bastard husband just upped and went off with all her money and shacked up with the ginger slut"


    32. She upped his face with her soft


    33. 'They seemed to have a bit of a row and she just upped and left


    34. The judge upped the bond for this second charge in as much days, he had said — with a glowering look over his spectacles — to ten-thousand dollars


    35. decided to check his response if she upped the ante


    36. Sir it also appears that the Asian Alliance witnessed the incident and has upped their military threat level


    37. I had ambled down Nikitskaya to Manezh and stood for a good ten minutes watching a wedding party throw wishing coins from point zero to the four corners of Russia, beggars on every point of the dial waiting for the kopecks to land, before, suddenly, impromptu, I upped and walked off through the gates and down a little past Goom shopping mall where the tourists were sipping espresso and inspecting St


    38. The bear line Upped down just in


    39. breakouts gradually Upped it higher unUl it was no


    40. I upped my O2 mixture

    41. Washington upped its rate to match Cal’s


    42. The girl upped the tempo, as if she wanted to put a quick end to her humiliation, and why not? He’d be happy to keep the process short and take her out for two or three drinks before he pulled her


    43. We’re the ones who’ve upped the stakes every step of the way


    44. LESS THAN TWENTY-FOUR hours earlier, Phil Hoffman had been in his office, rehearsing his defense strategy, when a phone call from the SFPD radically upped his client’s chances for acquittal


    45. By adding an additional 8,358 MW in 2008, the United States upped its total capacity to 25,170 MW, slightly above the 23,902 MW in Germany


    46. 7 percent; 12 months later, the same agency upped the number to 6


    47. ", upped the minimum investment to $100,000, and opened an office in Kiewit Plaza on Farnam street


    48. Last year the Japanese drank 36 percent more Cokes than they did the year before, and the Spanish upped their consumption by 26 percent


    1. It seems that he and Sarek had a game of one upping each other on their tokens of admiration


    2. switching to upping the levels of positivity


    3. by upping my intake of things that contribute to the


    4. “Nine hundred,” Gary stated upping the offer


    5. Which it was and which led to Fred upping sticks and becoming an Essex man


    6. Upping the power of killing through machines


    7. The entire insane story of 12,000 years of the glory of civilization, is the story of human killers upping the ante of reflected, and re-reflected hate, violence, brutality, killing, and insanity


    8. For the past year, Susan had seemed content with a simpler life of upping the care of


    9. England achieved the double in 2012, with the women’s team beating Ireland 2–1 and upping their record for the most wins of the European Women’s Team Squash Championships to 34 (since 1973)


    1. The markets have seen lots of ups and downs, but history shows that over time the value of a well-diversified portfolio will increase


    2. Over a long period of a few years some share show a consistent growth, some show ups and downs around a mean value, some show a persistent fall in value and quite a few just vanish out of market or are quoted at a value which is not worth the cost of paper on which the share certificate is printed


    3. Be Aware of Processing Ups and Downs


    4. emotional ups and downs from processing the release


    5. is released, but noticeable ups and downs occur about


    6. May Create Emotional Ups and Downs, 217


    7. director of the television broadcast cut to close ups of the young


    8. I suddenly think of Bunty … what would she have done? In spite of her hang ups sexually – and they were a direct result of her upbringing, I reckon – she was a sensible yet emotional woman


    9. ups were struggling with what to say


    10. all the ups and downs inherent in life

    11. That’s ugly stuff, but it’s best not to ignore those screw ups as if they didn’t exist (although I wish they didn’t), painting myself a gratifying but distorted rosy picture of my own glorious history


    12. In general, the up and down action of the elevator represents the ups and downs of your life


    13. Alternatively, the tides symbolize your emotional ups and downs


    14. She’s ups there at the front desk”, she said, pointing down the hall


    15. Prior to our incarnation, we have all ‘signed up’ for the ups and downs that will feature in our present Earthly life


    16. The closer to the front we got the more hold ups we encountered so at some o these stops we would gather wood and build fires shoving billy cans on them and brewing up


    17. There were more hold ups and every time we moved off again the buffers would crash together hard enough to rattle your teeth and make your ears ring and the coupling chains would jangle and clank as they swayed when the engine pulled off


    18. following 190 years, the Hawes family, like most families in the early days of America, had been through many ups and downs,


    19. A complicated sequence of lefts, rights and even ups and downs that I had attempted


    20. The Ups and Downs of Golf Tournaments

    21. Was love always such a roller coaster of emotions? Sure, she and Josh had their share of ups and downs, but never like this


    22. The Jewish Chronicle had taken close ups of the bikes and bikers but ignoring the TVR and were clearly putting the blame on the biker’s heads


    23. “It’s going to take time to complete a thorough list without drawing attention, but I’ve started with the higher ups


    24. Cover ups? No, not really, as said there were murder investigations against members who pulled the trigger and the commissioned officer who gave the order because no SAP member (with his training and discipline) just started shooting


    25. Then a UPS plugged into the voltage regulator and only then plug in your electronic goods


    26. She and Mike appeared to have their ups and downs, but apparently had built a tentative friendship as well as an enormous demand for bar supplies


    27. First the owners steal, ups! I mean ―appropriate‖


    28. I have been fortunate to be born into a proper, old and wealthy family, but despite this, the first part of my life has been full of ups and downs and defined by countless struggles and a continued urge to fully understand the mind


    29. Clearly, there had been ups and downs in our relationship with Mexico over the last one hundred and sixty years


    30. accumulate experience and experience, this kind of person with a positive optimistic over the ups and downs in life, on their appearance simply don't see the storm clouds bring their appearance

    31. “Was it UPS this early in the morning?” asked Jeannine


    32. “Any child could have come up with that, but for some reason all the high ups thought it was amazing


    33. But I will tell you this, that I believe exit pop ups are getting less effective over time because


    34. And the sale can be made on the drums and delivery by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)"


    35. Q: Ups and downs in sadhana are inevitable


    36. You made it through all the ups and downs of pregnancy, the painful contractions and childbirth


    37. The clean ups were performed and in 1995 the tax was allowed to lapse with $3


    38. Not all of the clean ups were necessary


    39. ups you have are beneficial to them as well? If relationships appear to


    40. to any one of the higher ups

    41. 1 to discuss my work in MS with higher ups


    42. I was constantly being sent by the Navy to the Army JAG School on the campus of UVA in Charlottesville for training and to Crystal City, VA, to discuss my work in MS with higher ups


    43. grown ups eyes were watering too


    44. Regrettably, some higher ups at PSL who had been acting outside the law and PSL’s internal Policies and Procedure erroneously believed that they were above the law


    45. Business is cyclical with its ups and downs


    46. Wrestlers have unpredictable ups and downs and a champ today can be pinned on his back looking up at the lights tomorrow


    47. That was romantic; everyone says that a couple should always have its ups and downs sides and that a couple shout together stay together


    48. Every journey has its ups and downs


    49. The ups and downs and


    50. would grow some day to be a larger corporation such as FedEx, UPS or DHL










































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    Synonyms for "up"

    up astir upward improving upwardly upwards higher boost elevate raise augment increase expand extend

    "up" definitions

    raise


    being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level


    out of bed


    getting higher or more vigorous


    extending or moving toward a higher place


    (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness


    open


    (used of computers) operating properly


    used up


    spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position


    to a higher intensity


    nearer to the speaker


    to a more central or a more northerly place


    to a later time