How to Use add up in a Sentence

add up

verb

• Muscles are for running faster, and all those things add up.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2022
• The costs of poor employee retention rates add up fast, both in terms of money and time.
  — Burcin Ressamoglu, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• A few dollars saved each shopping trip can add up quickly over the entire holiday season.
  — Bykaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2022
• Aden also spoke at the conference and said what police told them about the situation didn't add up.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• The rain combined with the cool temperatures and stiff north wind all add up to some rather unpleasant weather to end the weekend.
  — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
• Other killings, orchestrated by Manson, would begin to add up.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
• But if that suggested maybe Alex had been depressed and took her own life, there were other things that didn't seem to add up in Ecker's account.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2024
• Her bafflement by feminism, and gender more generally, began to add up.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
• Warmer waters, pollution, a thick covering of algae, and the rarity of mature coral all add up to prevent new baby coral from settling.
  — Alex Riley, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
• What this adds up to, Payne argues, is the near-total subordination of political discourse to group identities.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• Moving base runners, avoiding strikeouts and running from first to third on a base hit are all little things that add up to 92 wins when your team finishes 14th in the league in home runs.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
• Other national polling averages show that the race for the battleground states has pinged back-and-forth between the candidates, showing that the election will be razor-thin once the votes have been added up.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Oct. 2024
• Option to add up to five additional memberships for the family for only $6 per month (or $66 annually) each.
  — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2024
• But adding up the mass of the quarks alone doesn’t give you the mass of the proton.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• Does that risk add up, or does each roll of the dice stand alone?
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 20 Sep. 2023
• Hey, the math isn’t adding up, but that was never your thing.
  — Kate Hakala, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Think of stressors adding up like tiles in a game of Tetris.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
• For starters, the math doesn’t add up, the analysis found.
  — Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2022
• The price of gas, train passes, and more can quickly add up.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
• Yet that hit to GDP could add up in a lengthy shutdown.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• The rings in the newest James Webb image add up to 160 years’ worth of dust trails.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
• But for the past week, to get to and from the Metro station, she’s had to book rides that have added up to more than $200.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• If those would’ve been fines, that would add up to about $2 million.
  — Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• At the end of the first vote for speaker, the tally clerks add up the numbers and announce the totals to the House.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
• But as the challenges add up, so do the shifts in perspective.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• The Sherman Minton Renewal project could add up to 30 years of life to the bridge, Brady said.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2022
• All of these things just add up more and more for this character.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
• All of that adds up to 27 treats any beauty lover will devour on sight.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 13 Sep. 2024
• And second, the face numbers add up to the same total as on a standard die.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
• Lots of cabinets meant lots of hardware, though, so the cost added up to $1,500.
  — Charlotte Safavi, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024