How to Use rub up in a Sentence

rub up

verb

• Avoid rubbing up on any tall grass and keep to the middle when walking down a path.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• Freshman players had to rub up against the line of men to get to their showers, according to the suit.
  — Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Their decisions on how to live in the present rub up against the realities of their pasts.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 3 June 2020
• Chewy's strategy seems to be working on Schwartz, whose blue-eyed cat likes to rub up against the painting from his cat tree.
  — Joseph Pisani, ajc, 1 Jan. 2021
• The agricultural hills and valleys rub up against the mild Central Coast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• But the icy home of polar bears doesn't include many vertical objects to rub up on.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
• Injinji toe socks are a great option for runners who tend to get blisters in the space where their toes rub up against each other.
  — Elaheh Nozari, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2022
• The engineers-to-be rub up against the aspiring designers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• In that extreme environment, the largest and smallest things in the universe rub up against one another.
  — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
• The image sparked something, the blurry, second-hand details rubbing up against a burial site inside me.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Dec. 2022
• The girl, whose age was not released, was sleeping in Williams’ daughter’s bedroom when Williams began to stroke her thighs and rub up against her while his daughter was not home, the affidavit says.
  — Dallas News, 17 May 2022
• And the hallways are wider, as women during the bygone era had large dresses and needed to pass each other without rubbing up against each other.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 2 May 2023
• Diapers that are wet or filled with a bowel movement can rub up against a baby’s skin and cause diaper rash or infection.
  — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Dec. 2022
• Complete, utter silence, except for the hum of generators and the swish of winter coats rubbing up against each other as those wearing them hugged.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2023
• The particles likely got into the vials due to an incorrect set up on the manufacturing line that caused two pieces of metal to rub up against each other.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Earthquakes occur when adjoining plates that rub up against each other release stored energy in a burst.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
• Upon meeting a new person, Howie is likely to rub up and press his body into theirs, expressing both his friendliness and a desire to comfort.
  — Bob Chiarito, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2021
• As iFixit points out, the sensors use magnets to detect the joystick’s movement, which means none of the components actually rub up against each other and wear out like the sensors used on Joy-Cons do.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2023
• Another long-standing relationship was thus established: the sullen pride of salt-of-the-earth islanders rubbing up against the pretensions of summer folk.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• According to The New York Times, bears rub up against objects like trees to communicate using scent, remove hair and itch themselves, and possibly, to use resin and sap as a natural tick repellent.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
• The comical tone rubs up, often awkwardly, against the more serious themes the film introduces about repression and misogyny.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The best casts interact easily and casually, getting along as a tight vibrant community not afraid to rub up against each other.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2022
• Fallon's push to force the party to deal with Mayorkas rubs up against McCarthy's strategy to investigate before going down the political path of impeachment that seems doomed to fail in the Senate.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2023
• Bears young and old enthusiastically rub up against tree trunks in wetlands in the southeastern U.S. to thin their heavy coats before the high summer temperatures arrive.
  — Outside Online, 16 July 2022
• The decision to sell is not an easy one for people caught up in FTX and other crypto bankruptcies, whose desire to close out a painful chapter rubs up against a determination to avoid being taken advantage of twice over.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• By having the caustic observations come from two young women whose lives are in flux, and forcing these opinions to rub up against social reality, the story achieves a devastating poignancy while still displaying Clowes’s gift for spite.
  — Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024