How to Use pair (someone) up with (someone) in a Sentence

pair (someone) up with (someone)

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  • The take-home bands will also keep track of the keys that have been won and will pair up with devices at home.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Lay doesn't have, Deal has always been someone he's wanted to pair up with.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The feathers add an upscale touch to this classic maxi dress, perfect to pair up with your favorite heels.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This is a surf ‘n’ turf challenge, so each chef must pair up with another chef who has the opposite type of game.
    Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • Keanu Neal, the safety turned linebacker who worked for Quinn in Atlanta, will pair up with Parsons on passing downs.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The Scottish actor went so far as to pair up with the show's costume designer, Jeriana San Juan, to learn how to sew.
    Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 16 May 2021
  • Popular luggage brand Away also has a great backpack to pair up with your roller.
    Christina Liao, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • In each of the hour-long episodes, Fallon and a celeb will pair up with contestants where each team will try to guess a secret password using one-word clues.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2022
  • In their universe, singles have 45 days to find someone to pair up with or they're turned into animals.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 9 Mar. 2022
  • In the cells that give rise to an egg, a Spanish chromosome will pair up with its Polynesian counterpart.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2013
  • That explains one reason most brewery owners pair up with someone else—to shoulder some of the burden.
    Tara Nurin, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • However, this means that the excitons can pair up with equally slow-moving phonons.
    IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Those stories, those filmmakers, and those movies felt useful to pair up with these characters.
    Vulture, 13 Apr. 2022
  • In an attempt to solve two problems at once — and fully aware of the sport’s therapeutic powers — Dr. Burke orders the flailing Colter to pair up with Ike to teach him to fly fish.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • Overnight guests at Alisal Ranch in Solvang can pair up with one of the property's 100-plus ponies for everything from wrangling lessons to barrel racing.
    Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The twins pair up with a morally bankrupt big pharma family to open a state-of-the-art birthing center that promises to put the well-being of women and their children ahead of all else.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • These bands would ostensibly come in two different sizes and pair up with just about any smart device, including the Peloton bike itself (of course), cell phones, tablets, and TVs.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 24 June 2021
  • Focus on making your workplace pleasant or pair up with congenial people on projects.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2021
  • In some cases, directors will pair up with their counterparts within the company.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 10 May 2023
  • During the episode, players choose a fellow competitor to pair up with, before it’s revealed that their partner is actually their opponent in the challenge.
    NBC News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • At very low temperatures the electrons can pair up with their neighbors to become superconducting.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Smaller companies might pair up with bigger ones to ease logistics, and the time that employees will spend to get vaccinated will be considered working time.
    Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Like a canny Bachelor contestant, Cicero can persuade another human to pair up with it.
    WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Each will perform a 40-minute solo recital, plus pair up with another semifinalist in a duo performance for a chance to advance to the finals and an opportunity to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra.
    cleveland, 29 July 2021
  • On Friday, Twitter engineers were being invited to meetings to pair up with Tesla engineers to review the social network’s code, a person familiar with the matter said.
    Kurt Wagner, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • And rearrangements are typically not advantageous: During meiosis and the formation of gametes, all chromosomes need to pair up with a matching partner.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
  • After all, the imperative to make money has historically pushed both social-media companies and their most popular creators to pair up with brands that turn every post into a commercial.
    Sarah Todd, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Yes, a requel — the distinctly 21st century Frankenstein’s monster of a franchise entry in which legacy characters from beloved series pair up with fresh blood in the name of breathing new life into an old but highly beloved intellectual property.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Elite-college students tend to date their classmates; astrophysicists might disproportionately pair up with other scientists.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024

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