How to Use go up in a Sentence

go up

verb

• The actual last size goes up or down with the size of the boot.
  — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
• Over the past 50 years, gasoline prices have gone up and down.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2024
• One year the revenues would go up, but the profits would go down.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The billboards here — 29 in all — went up in early June.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
• When Swift goes up an octave in the track’s second verse.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• Soon, the entire house goes up in flames, with Harold still inside.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• Can’t go up 17 points in the first quarter with Booker going for 16 points in the first – and lose.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• Sharks fast and can go up to six weeks without feeding.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• The Kings extended the lead to 17 on a three-point play by Barnes and went up by 20 on a breakaway dunk by Fox.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
• The poor’s real wages went down while the middle’s real wages went up.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• And after the hearing, as supporters of the victims filed out of the packed courtroom, a roar of cheers went up in the hall.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• And the mental block goes up again, the fear that his knee never healed properly.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• As the years to pay off the mortgage tick down, happiness levels go up.
  — Wes Moss, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Rides in shrimp boats, goes up in a hot-air balloon, attends a rattlesnake roundup.
  — Michael Paterniti, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• While Altman hopes that the price of WLD will go up, its value so far has been somewhat volatile.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Carolina went up 7-0 in the first quarter after the score.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Although the conditions were tempered slightly for the boys race, the field still had to go up against strong winds and rain.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
• Catherine went up and screened all the episodes in this tiny country hall and the whole community came.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
• Construction labor costs went up 34% over the last five years, Verisk found.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Futures are contracts that let traders on whether markets such as oil, wheat or the S&P 500 will go up or down.
  — WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
• And those injuries went up at an alarming clip, a 50% increase over the seven years.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• There are some other big names in vintage whiskey that will go up for auction.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2023
• The cost of living and corporate profits have gone up since 2020.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Prices have gone up by 19% since the start of the pandemic, a hard-to-forget leap that has left voters in search of someone to blame.
  — Annie Linskey, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
• Most of his pizzas went up $1, with some going up $2, like the lamb meatball and venison sausage pies.
  — Santul Nerkar, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Prices can also go up based on how inclusive a size range is.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
• Non-league teams like the Elyria Athletics went up against league teams in games that counted in the standings.
  — House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2023
• Despite the state average going up, some parts of the state had lower prices.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
• So consider going up a size if want the sweatshirt to be a bit baggy.
  — Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024