scare up
verb
scared up; scaring up; scares up
: to find or get together with considerable labor or difficulty : scrape up
managed to scare up the money
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Examples of scare up in a Sentence
I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them.
Recent Examples on the Web
So how refreshing that one of American indie cinema’s most beloved (and original!) horror outings is preparing to scare up fans (new and old) with a follow-up feature 10 long years since its first release.
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 26 June 2024
Russell Crowe starrer The Exorcism also opened nationwide, but failed to scare up much business.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2024
If there were hearings on whether the city ought to maintain mayoral control of the police or even the sanitation department, advocates could probably scare up at least that many voices to say hell no.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
Raising money, building name recognition, scaring up a decent-sized crowd were all stiff challenges for any representative who ventured too far from home.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The Conjuring, made for just $20 million, became a runaway hit when it was released in 2013, scaring up almost $320 million worldwide.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
Rounding out the top five is another horror entry from Blumhouse and Universal, The Exorcist: Believer which scared up an additional $3.1 million for a four-week total of $59.3 million ($61 million globally).
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023
An elegant prose stylist with a sharp critical eye, Hermes appears to have scared up everyone alive whose life intersected with his subject.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Skarsgard, who helped the It movies scare up over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, will be seen in the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4 and is currently filming the action-fantasy Boy Kills World.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2022
Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 26 June 2024
Russell Crowe starrer The Exorcism also opened nationwide, but failed to scare up much business.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2024
If there were hearings on whether the city ought to maintain mayoral control of the police or even the sanitation department, advocates could probably scare up at least that many voices to say hell no.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
Raising money, building name recognition, scaring up a decent-sized crowd were all stiff challenges for any representative who ventured too far from home.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The Conjuring, made for just $20 million, became a runaway hit when it was released in 2013, scaring up almost $320 million worldwide.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
Rounding out the top five is another horror entry from Blumhouse and Universal, The Exorcist: Believer which scared up an additional $3.1 million for a four-week total of $59.3 million ($61 million globally).
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023
An elegant prose stylist with a sharp critical eye, Hermes appears to have scared up everyone alive whose life intersected with his subject.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Skarsgard, who helped the It movies scare up over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, will be seen in the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4 and is currently filming the action-fantasy Boy Kills World.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2022
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“Scare up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20up. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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