How to Use lead-up in a Sentence

lead-up

1 of 2 noun
  • What was the lead-up to the 2007 NHL draft like for the Hawks?
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • How does this podcast serve as a lead-up to that event?
    Okla Jones, Essence, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The lead-up to their big day was captured in the first season of Don't Be Tardy.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • The new dad teased that viewers may see the lead-up to the birth of his son, Theodore in season 3.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • What are your predictions for the lead-up to the finale?
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Read full article The lead-up to the awards was full of drama.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
  • The lead-up to the July 28 election has not been promising.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • The lead-up to the landing wasn’t without some hiccups.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • See behind the scenes of her stage-ready glam and the lead-up to her big moment and read all about it — in her words!
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The classic is one of the last lead-up meets before the U.S. team is selected.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
  • Fans were plentiful, as were cameras to capture the action and the lead-up to the games.
    Stephen Saito, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The announcement kicks off the one-year lead-up to the Games, which will run from 26 July to 11 August.
    Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 24 July 2023
  • This is precisely what Macron tried to do in the lead-up to Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine.
    Daniel Depetris, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The lead-up to the Games have been tough for several notable athletes.
    Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
  • What will Cohen say about the lead-up to hush money payments?
    Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • It’s set in the lead-up to his debut runway show in September of last year.
    Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • And in the 59-day lead-up to the election, neither ticket wants to appear soft on China.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The lead-up to the landing included last-minute shuffling.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The lead-up to new model year production starts well before new cars hit the lots.
    Mike Spagnola, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, the lead-up to this interview feels like the workplace B-story of an Emily in Paris episode.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2024
  • After a long lead-up, Black Friday 2023 is finally here with some of the best health and wellness deals of the year.
    Phoebe Sklansky, Health, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The lead-up to the Fourth is a particularly good time to invest in a brand-new mattress.
    Micki Wagner, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
  • The question rang out throughout the lead-up to Auburn’s first game: was Auburn’s hype in the running back room a result of a bad run defense?
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • With a book by Lynn Nottage, the show focuses on the lead-up to that record-smashing tour, but still enfolds a heck of a playlist.
    Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The fire alarm is the latest wrinkle for the 49ers, whose lead-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl against the Chiefs hasn’t been perfectly smooth.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The lead-up to their football season was anything but normal.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Despite all the lead-up, today’s hearing was over in less than 20 minutes.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 July 2024
  • Yeah, means a ton, ton of fun to get out there and have that energy, the atmosphere, all the lead-up and all the hard work that has gotten us to this point.
    oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
  • My fleets blot out the sun and bathe their world in ominous darkness, all in a lead-up to the activation of my deadly weapon.
    WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Uncertainty lingered over the magnitude of a cut in the lead-up to the decision.
    Hakyung Kim,samantha Subin,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2024
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lead up

2 of 2 verb
  • The years leading up to menopause can be full of changes.
    Eden Arielle Gordon, SELF, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Make a few and arrange them on the lawn leading up to the door.
    Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the events leading up to the 500 will be shown on FS1, as well as on the Fox Sports app.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But in the days leading up to the race, Farley had his doubts.
    Kelyn Soong, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • This has been done in other cities in the weeks leading up to the show.
    Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Here's a list of fast and slow jams to groove to in the days leading up to Super Bowl 58.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Team rosters will be announced in the weeks leading up to the event.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
  • His go-to look for the events leading up to the wedding was a J.Crew white shirt paired with Tom Ford cream trousers.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
  • What's a typical day of eating in the week leading up to the marathon?
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Steve Ducote fears that in the days leading up to Megan's death, the couple may have been fighting.
    David Begnaud, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The months leading up to the 1963 March were bloody and full of conflict between activists and racists.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Shopping for your wedding weekend and all of the events leading up to the big day?
    Anny Choi, Vogue, 2 July 2024
  • The Spanish-style stone façade is flanked by greenery leading up to the arched front door.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 18 July 2024
  • Olivia Culpo is in the final stretch leading up to her wedding!
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
  • Melanie later said Bloom had complained about leg cramps in the days leading up to his death.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The high risk of wildfires was well known by officials in the days leading up to the outbreak on Maui.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • In the final weeks leading up to the stadium sales tax vote, the teams cast White as a villain.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The circumstances leading up to the shooting were not known and no one was in custody.
    Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2023
  • The health of the economy is still a major variable leading up to the election.
    Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Noakes asked that people who live in the area check their cameras for any video that may have captured the crash or what led up to it.
    James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The conveyor lifts were moved to the former location of Burns lift and lead up the mountain.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The current season of Sister Wives has shown the moments leading up to Meri and Kody's split.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Dentists poured millions into the campaign to promote it in the months leading up to the vote.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But the weeks leading up to the race saw a steady stream of negative news reports from locals.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The show documented the singer's early years in high school leading up to his rise to fame.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Jack becomes Jann’s trainer and helps to guide him through a series of races leading up to Le Mans.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Police said two groups of people who knew of each other engaged in a fight that led up to the stabbing.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The robocalls poured in, tens of millions of them, in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • It’s become seasonal and only available in the months leading up to Halloween.
    Bon Appétit, 18 Oct. 2024
  • After his death abroad, many have been left wondering why Liam Payne was in Argentina in the days leading up to his tragic passing.
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 19 Oct. 2024

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