How to Use come up in a Sentence

come up

verb
  • Hogan’s own issues have come up through the ethics complaints filed against him as governor.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Managers should enable direct reports to modify their roles and come up with new processes that align with their skills and career goals.
    Kate Wieczorek, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • It's not ever come up in a serious conversation between us and Netflix or anything like that.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
  • According to the suit, the plaintiff would also handle various other problems that came up, such as seeking to retrieve items that were lost or stolen.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Pittsburgh will come up against an Indianapolis Colts team on a journey to find its identity after three up-and-down performances so far.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024
  • In the fall of 2004, Frank came up with an idea for a project.
    Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But in the eighth inning, Ruth came up to the plate and knocked one out to right field.
    Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The next thing that came up was the Fourth of July 1985 concert in D.C.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Lo and behold, his name came up – on LinkedIn, of all places.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Keep in mind you will be searched online to see what comes up.
    Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • It’s expected to come up for a vote before the full House in the weeks ahead.
    Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Siri Daly has come up with the perfect soundtrack to her life as a mom.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • Dear Miss Manners: The wedding of the son of a good friend is coming up in a few weeks.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Once in the water, Bloom shares a glimpse of him and Perry coming up to the surface.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • This new video calls out the name of every musician when their parts come up in the track.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Carla would spend the day with her, then come up, hang with me, come back downstairs.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
  • His game has worked for him so far, so just come up here and do the same thing, don’t try to do something else.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Uber isn’t the first company to come up with this idea for a car-free trial.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 June 2024
  • However, Claudia managed to come up with a Plan B and the cousin saved the day.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Others came up and shook hands with him while keeping it brief.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Mikel Arteta’s side has pushed City all the way over the past two seasons but has so far come up short.
    Matias Grez, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • King Charles turned to the man who designed the iPhone, iPad and iPod to come up with the symbol for his coronation.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In Game 1, Bobrovsky had to come up with heroics time and again to will Florida to the win.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 11 June 2024
  • In his chat with WCL, Manilow explained that brands give jingle writers the lyrics and ask them to come up with the melody.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The joy of House of Villains comes from all the styles of confrontation the contestants come up against.
    Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The same names seem to come up again and again, names notably different than a decade or so ago.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • So how did the subject of Benicio co-writing first come up on your end?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
  • A lot of factors have come up, the pandemic being one of them.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Vargas came up through the minor leagues as a third baseman.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
  • The film has a celebrative last act, in spite of — or because of — all the issues that come up along the way.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023

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