How to Use worked up in a Sentence

worked up

adjective

• What is she so worked up about?
• He got all worked up over the football game.
• After feeling the theme of the song emerge, Nashashibi worked up the courage to send the song to D’Nur.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• Sacks got worked up and lost his cool and ended the call.
  — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 11 June 2020
• Months passed before Davis worked up the courage to hunt.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
• In 2014, Becky Davis was fresh out of the Coast Guard and worked up the nerve to audition for a play.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• And why do people on both the left and the right, Latino and not, get so worked up about it?
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• The first reason fans shouldn't get worked up is because the odds are low.
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2021
• Six weeks later, Jackman worked up the courage to ask her out.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2020
• The men had a fire built within 10 minutes, by which point Trevor worked up the nerve to ask the question.
  — Jr Sullivan, Field & Stream, 23 Dec. 2020
• As the players rushed off the field, some fans pelted them with boos, but that’s as worked up as the chilly crowd got.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• Stoops used the bye to reinforce what worked up to that point and reclaim good habits.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 30 Oct. 2021
• Crews worked up to 12 hours a day to move thousands of tons of the waste to a city landfill less than a mile away, Roberts said.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Will Smith, Dodgers Hard to get too worked up over the No. 2 snub on a team with four selections.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
• But Fitzgerald wasn't the one who got the most worked up about the situation.
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
• But here’s what all UT alums (even I get worked up here) should care about coming out of all of this.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Rhodes worked up to take the lead on Lap 47, but not without surviving a scare.
  — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2020
• Once, Liliana worked up her nerve to ask for more money.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• Sheldon Inge had worked up front, while Cortlandt took care of business in the kitchen.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2022
• Then, two years ago, Thompson finally worked up the nerve to flirt with him.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
• We get worked up about what people will think about us, but the truth is people don’t think about us at all.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2022
• He's given us some really good years and kind of developed and worked up through the ranks and done the right things.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
• At the start of the pandemic, Triumph Foods employees worked up to 10 hours a day, crammed side by side.
  — USA Today, 12 Nov. 2020
• Plenty of stuff to get worked up about today, Mobsters.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2022
• As for new music, Allen said there are plenty of songs worked up with the plan being a 2023 release date.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
• Think long term and stay open minded, and avoid shutting down new ideas from people who may have just worked up the courage to pitch a thought for the first time.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• When Wiley worked up the courage to tell her mother, her mother went into shock.
  — Sarah Treleaven, ELLE, 27 July 2022
• Finally, Andy brings up the topic that must be what’s had Erika so worked up all along.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Last year, Gallegos embraced jogging three or four times a week, and worked up to a five-plus-mile run—er, jog.
  — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
• On another note — now that your faithful puck chronicler is getting worked up — all these franchises have too many different sweaters.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024