How to Use send up in a Sentence

send up

verb
  • But her most impressive play of the day was the pass that sent up the final goal in the 77th minute.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
  • The company plans to send up two more flights this year.
    Dallas News, 20 July 2021
  • The fire now doubled in height, sending up thick, black plumes of smoke that rose above the cliff.
    Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Mostly just to send up the idea of a household run like a restaurant.
    Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • LauncherOne is able to send up to about half a ton of satellites into space.
    Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Netflix will then send up to 10 random discs based on the movies in the subscriber’s queue.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 22 Aug. 2023
  • When the weather is wet, these fungi that grow in the lawn year-round send up mushrooms.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Buildings had been felled by airstrikes, sending up plumes of smoke.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Sotomayor, in contrast, does not miss a chance to send up a flare.
    Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Bags are offloaded in the same room where they’re put onto carts and then sent up to baggage claim.
    USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Fires also send up plumes of soot that screen sunlight and add to warming.
    Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The same goes for sending up to 720p videos on the app, which became widely available last week.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Pulling it does no good because any root left in the ground sends up another plant.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
  • Most of those are a smaller version of the satellite that SpaceX was able to send up in batches of more than 50 at a time.
    Tribune Content Agency, al, 22 July 2023
  • The mothers uttered sighs of relief and sent up quick prayers that the war might end soon or that a ceasefire would be reached.
    Maram Humaid, Harper's Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • That means that half are cut one year and have to send up new shoots from ground level one spring, and the other half gets the same treatment the next spring.
    Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • It is now reduced to piles of rubble, some of which continue to send up thin smoke.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Amazon plans to launch thousands of satellites but has yet to send up a single one.
    Christian Davenport and Joseph Menn, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • He is now being sent up north to Israel’s border with Lebanon.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The blast sent up a plume of black smoke and a fireball that was large enough to reach a transformer on a power line, damaging it.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The woman has emailed at least two or three times per day for the last seven months, sometimes sending up to 20 emails per day.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In dire need of fuel and food, the crew finally sent up a distress signal.
    Dera Menra Sijabat, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Department of Labor was sending up signals of its own.
    Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Tiangong makes China only the third country in the world apart from the U.S. and Russia to send up astronauts and build a space station.
    Time, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The idea of sending up the digital equivalent of a signal flare and having to wait on Linksys support to get back to me sounds like hell.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Léon Teisserenc de Bort sent up some two hundred balloons.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • When one daring man reached Day 29, Bacon sent up word that the man’s wife was in a bar across the street with another man — and the pole sitter abandoned his post.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That was notable both in light of the lawsuit and because Amazon would be paying SpaceX to send up satellites to compete against it.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Jinkx and DeLa offer a campy send up of the typical holiday special.
    oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Individuals can send up to five free faxes a day, and since 2012, the site has listed the fax numbers for members of the House and Senate.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023

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