How to Use fed up in a Sentence

fed up

adjective
  • We've had one delay after another, and I'm starting to feel pretty fed up.
  • Sherman Park residents are fed up with reckless driving.
    Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In our newsroom, we’re fed up with this kind of lazy, irresponsible reporting.
    cleveland, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The fact that such a majority of the public is fed up in a state as progressive as California says something about how bad things have gotten.
    Shelley Zimmerman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Conditioned for abuse? I am ticked off and fed up with people who run stop signs when making a right turn into moving traffic from a side street and then don’t keep up with traffic.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • They were fed up with how high their bills are now — and that Illinois American Water wanted to raise them by nearly $30 a month.
    Sarah Moskowitz, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Matt Stevens had been working as an account manager at a pest-control company for a few months when, in the spring of 2021, he got fed up.
    Te-Ping Chen, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The three guys play characters all equally fed up with their abusive or manipulative bosses—and decide to do something about it, that something being...uh, killing them.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The shift comes as Biden and Democratic governors are under increasing pressure by voters fed up with restrictions due to the virus.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But the protests drew in thousands of people on some weekends, many of them just frustrated Canadians who didn’t want to be forced to get a vaccine or were just fed up with the pandemic and its restrictions.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Amid the uproar over the athletic director, several current and former employees spoke of teachers and staff leaving the district because they get fed up with local cliqueishness.
    Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • He was fed up and went and worked in video games for a while.
    William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
  • She was fed up with doctors and the work that had done this to her.
    Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The siege in Ottawa, about 470 miles away, has infuriated residents fed up with government inaction.
    Rob Gillies and Ted Shaffrey, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Complaints from the neighbors, fed up with the smell, piled up for years.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But some neighbors are fed up with the shenanigans that come with the race.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • YouTube seems to be fed up with the problem and is coming for all of those users.
    Joe Wituschek, BGR, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe at some point the fans might get fed up and stop showing up.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • When those two things don’t go hand-in-hand, there’s a problem, and the workers are fed up.
    Tom Kertscher, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • People are just fed up with having to deal with what to do with it.
    John Sowell, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
  • A couple who lives next to the property said they are fed up.
    Mark Shavin, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The team on the wrong side of it finally decides it's fed up with the poor outcomes, and hits back.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 2 July 2022
  • But now the mom of two young children said she is fed up and is looking to the town take action.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2024
  • Unless Ayton is the one who is fed up and doesn’t want to remain a Sun.
    Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2022
  • The plant manager said he was fed up and promised to take away cutlery from the break room if the thefts did not stop.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2024
  • Fifty-seven percent said they were fed up enough to quit.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The book became a guide for many restaurateurs fed up with the status quo.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Like many of her neighbors, Resheante Crider, 30, is fed up.
    The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Deebo Samuel is fed up with the 49ers and will not leave his heart in San Francisco.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But in the end, he got fed up with Florence’s digressions and set the case for trial in mid-March.
    Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 5 July 2022

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