How to Use stack up in a Sentence

stack up

verb
  • Click through the slideshow to see how the AI ads stack up against the real-world event.
    Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Here’s how this all stacks up to booze, heart-health-wise.
    Ali Finney, SELF, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Check out the full breakdown here of where your city stacks up.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So how do the teams in the SEC stack up after all have played at least one game?
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
  • It is stacked up — feet high — against homes in Utah and Nevada.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Stones were stacked up against a door where the victim was trapped inside.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The complaints stacked up to the point that OpenAI acknowledged it in a tweet and promised a fix.
    Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • How will the Utah Utes stack up in the college football landscape this year?
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • Here's how housing market stacks up against the markets across the U.S.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The Lyriq’s features, performance and price stack up well against all of them.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
  • What makes this one, Holbrook’s Clement Mansell, stack up with some of the greats from the Justified rogues gallery?
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • And the political tumult stacks up all the way to the United States.
    Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As the acquittals stacked up, one of them left midway through the verdict.
    Paul J. Weber and Juan A. Lozano The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Kansas — Are the injuries stacking up before the first week of the season?
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But adding up these 20 items will give you some idea on how these stores stack up on average.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The question, though, is if the roster he’s built is able to stack up against the other AL East clubs across a 162-game season.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2023
  • For a look at how a state's cases and deaths in the past week stack up to cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic, see the chart below.
    Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Take note of how your snacks stack up and what adjustments may be needed.
    Leeann Weintraub, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s how the big-name actors (as directors) stacked up.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Here's how the Cardinals' roster stacks up for the Week 1 game against the Commanders.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • These are stories that people need to hear because still the -isms keep stacking up.
    ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Read more Ed Lab: See how your school district stacks up in math, science, reading.
    Tcrain, al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • How did the motorcycle ride stack up against the days spent sailing and flying?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • And yet, on closer inspection, things don’t quite stack up.
    Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
  • How today's event stacks up to past quakes What causes earthquakes?
    Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Basically, the higher the bond yields and the lower the stock earnings, the better bonds stack up, and vice versa.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • Keep reading for a look at where each of Altuve's postseason home runs stack up.
    Josh Criswell, Chron, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The city is full of muffulettas, but none quite stack up to the original, from Central Grocery.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 June 2022
  • So where exactly would the 2022 Astros stack up against a collection of all-time great teams?
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 27 Oct. 2022
  • These stacking cups can fit together, be stacked up, built like a tower, or played with in the bath or sandbox.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 8 Mar. 2024

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