How to Use shoot up in a Sentence

shoot up

verb

• Basha could shoot up to the top two in the Open with a win.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
• But later in the month, the price shoots up to $879 one-way.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• And that’s even has home prices have shot up over 70% in that span.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 May 2024
• Over the past few years, rents and home prices in Jacksonville have shot up.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
• What’s less fun is shooting up to five episodes at once as the 9-1-1 team races the clock.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• But the trend doesn’t seem to be holding for 2023, and attacks have shot up again.
  — WIRED, 12 July 2023
• If so, their odds of getting the job offer will shoot up.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
• When the song ended, one of the band members shot up his hand in what looked kind of like a Hitler salute.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• Beamer has a chance to shoot up these rankings in the coming years.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2022
• The goons shoot up the liver, but Knight's able to attack them using the knife Palmer just slipped her.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 17 May 2022
• Cocoa futures in New York have shot up more than two-thirds over the past year.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• But then the market started to freeze in 2023 as mortgage rates shot up.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• In the building next door, addicts shot up in a stairwell.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Is the state worried someone is going to shoot up the moon?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Meanwhile, tickets to the flagship parks have shot up in price.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• There was a guy who’d been shot up [and was] walking across the bridge towards us in downtown L.A..
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 31 Aug. 2023
• After someone walked in with a gun and threatened to shoot up the store, Mr. Rabee called 911.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• Hands shoot up across the rows in the chilly room at Sony Pictures Studios: How many people apply for the show?
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• The moment the back window shattered, Huda heard a whoosh of oxygen and saw the flames around the bus shoot up into the air.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The company’s stock shot up more than 10 percent that day.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Under the full-spectrum LED grow light, baby greens shoot up fast, from seed to plate in 7-12 days.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• After the deal was announced, the stock shot up 31% but those gains quickly leveled off.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• And yet a kid who just turned 18 could buy two at a Texas store and shoot up a school, killing at least 19 students and two adults Tuesday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Calls from fire victims to a mental health hotline shot up this spring.
  — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
• Next to Branch on the dais after the game, linebacker Mason Cobb’s eyebrows shot up at the mention of the blazing track time.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Their parents are Kevin and Madison, though, so they are primed to shoot up this ranking at some point.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2022
• The gun case was the one for the 9mm Sig Sauer handgun that the father had bought just four days before the shooting, the gun his son would use to shoot up the school.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
• The number of meetings increased, too, shooting up more than 150% for workers across the globe.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• In his nine starts against teams other than the last-place Colorado Rockies, that number shoots up to 6.15.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
• Greatest Hits shoots up the Billboard 200 thanks to that increase in consumption.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024