How to Use up against it in a Sentence

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• The dean of the Harvard Law School stood up against it.
  — Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
• The airport butts up against it, and there are railroad tracks a stone’s throw away.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2022
• But even with his come-from-far-behind style, Rombauer appeared to be up against it for much of the 1 ⅛-mile race.
  — Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2021
• Unopened mail addressed to 3AC had been pushed under the door or propped up against it, according to Teneo's account.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 July 2022
• The Timberwolves are up against it and facing elimination ahead of game 6.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022
• The Diamondbacks are indeed up against it in a division that includes the Dodgers, Padres and Giants.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• For Sorko-Ram, who will graduate in the spring, the biggest incentive for standing up against it is her little sister.
  — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Russia's opposition deepened when most of the world lined up against it at the United Nations to demand it withdraw from Ukraine.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2022
• Right guard James Daniels was out for two weeks with a quad injury, meaning one area of the offense most in need of getting some continuity together is going to be up against it.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• Rubio and other Senate Republicans will line up against it and go all Joe Hill explaining why.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• But the scenes in which David is fully up against it — a breakdown while talking to the 911 operator; an unnerving near-disaster of a day at the beach with his young daughter — feel like excursions into a different movie.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• That’s health experts’ best guess, based on local and national models that take into account how the now-dominant delta variant has raged through other countries and how well vaccines are holding up against it.
  — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Aug. 2021
• The birds’ problem-solving tasks included things like removing a lid or piercing a piece of foil to retrieve a treat, while the self-control test involved navigating around a transparent barrier—rather than butting up against it—to reach food.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Whittingham gets the credit for that, having been the constant in maintaining the Utes as a defensive-minded team that truly worries whoever lines up against it, an opponent to be respected and feared, even in its imperfection.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
• As omicron continues its ascent, scientists are still racing to collect data on the variant, especially regarding how well current vaccines and tests hold up against it, and the severity of omicron infections.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024