How to Use workup in a Sentence

workup

1 of 2 noun

• Hiller flew out to Santa Rosa to get a detailed workup on the left tackle.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2020
• On his heart care: Knight: The workup of his cardiac is ongoing.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
• How many of the 20% of breast cancers are going to be in that one of five women who elect to not get the further workup?
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 17 Apr. 2023
• After a medical workup, the dogs are placed in foster homes.
  — Meg Dunn, CNN, 28 July 2022
• To see if early heart disease may be a factor in your ED, Bankstein suggests a full workup at the doctor.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• Doctors in starched white coats walk the hallways at a clip, darting to and from consultations and workups with clients.
  — Jessica Chia, Allure, 25 Dec. 2019
• After a 20-minute workup, the buck was injected with a reversal drug.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2020
• The severity of the initial illness helps determine what the cardiac workup will be.
  — Giana Han, al, 10 Nov. 2020
• The nightmares awoke her from sleep with acute chest pain, necessitating a cardiac workup.
  — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
• People with these kinds of symptoms, Waxman said, need to come in for an immediate workup, even if most will not turn out to be heart attacks.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Eight hours later, he was carried out of the building on a blanket, finally breaking free of its walls, to get a full medical workup.
  — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
• Any athlete testing positive must go through a full cardiac workup before they are cleared.
  — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
• But most of the time people will get better on their own, without intervention or extensive workup.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• Further workup revealed the issue: Aliyah had new-onset diabetes.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
• Over three to four hours, these people went through an exhaustive medical workup by a variety of specialists.
  — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 30 June 2021
• The rest of the infectious disease workup, including testing for malaria, was negative.
  — Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2020
• As part of the standard child abuse workup, Petska ordered a slew of additional tests, including full body X-rays and labs to screen for bleeding disorders that could lead to easy bruising.
  — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2020
• Don did all the psychological workup for gender reassignment during that time, working out of our house.
  — Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
• And in contrast to competing medical workups that pitch whole genome sequencing, Q Bio decided to analyze a panel of just 147 genes.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 20 Feb. 2020
• This slow-going approach wasn’t my preference, but my original plan—to admit him to the hospital and pursue an aggressive workup—had been vetoed by the patient.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2010
• While these kinds of examples are dramatic, the reality is that most kids don’t need an extremely-rapid genetic workup.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Some health-care professionals worry that mindfulness is being pushed as a way of dealing with chronic pain in lieu of medical workups to find the underlying cause.
  — Michelle Cortez | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• Each dog is given a physical workup including blood work to ensure there are no underlying health issues.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2022
• Colleagues then took the kittens a short distance away and did a workup — which involves a physical exam, where body measurements are recorded, and attaching an ear tag — before the mother returned.
  — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• The remarks that follow are a glimpse at a negotiator’s ongoing notebook, not an authoritative workup on the topic.
  — Jack Nasher, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Instead, the process could result in a lot of worry for asymptomatic patients and force the patient and doctor to undergo more workups without yielding anything significant.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• This research suggests that doctors should do genetic workups in puzzling cases of serious infection, Meyts says.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
• To ignore someone who knows a patient's history, wishes, past workups, medicine failures and overall status is truly not optimal medical care.
  — Andy Lazris, Columbia Flier, 31 Aug. 2017
• A full diagnostic workup revealed nothing, so genetics experts in Boston and the Bigelows’ hometown of Portland, Maine, recommended sequencing all of her genes.
  — Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
• The puzzling intractability had triggered a soup-to-nuts workup: abdominal CAT scan, diagnostic testing for stool pathogens and a lab workup that measured everything but copper levels.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020

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work up

2 of 2 verb

• Start at the sternum and work up near the base of the neck.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
• Start at the bottom, in the center, and work up and out.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• The plan was to work up to the big one, the Bay Bridge, three to five years after that.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2020
• The two kept in touch on Facebook, and O’Rourke worked up the courage to ask her out.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
• Start the blender on low and work up to medium-high speed, adding the canola oil in a stream.
  — Alexandra Hall, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• The brand claims these can work up to 10 hours or more when fully charged.
  — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
• The film has been non-stop for years, and the team worked up until the last minute to perfect it.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
• Can any of us work up the energy to care or change course?
  — Nicole Chung, Time, 6 Apr. 2021
• Noel and Thomas have said that staffing shortages have forced guards to work up to 18-hour shifts.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2020
• Do the famous Bondi to Coogee coastal walk and work up a sweat; then dive in to cool off.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 9 July 2019
• The next morning, work up a sweat by hiking in Will Rogers State Park.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2024
• Such a beautiful day to play outside and work up a sweat with the help of this mate !!!
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• Start from the ends and work up towards the roots: This will keep the pulling and tugging to a minimum.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 13 June 2024
• My tall phlox got a brown dieback starting at the bottom and working up the stalk to the flower.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Begin with 20 seconds per leg and work up to one minute.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2020
• To see the view without working up a sweat, the S10 train from Zurich’s main station will take you most of the way up.
  — Noele Illien, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• But Fitzgerald wasn't the one who got the most worked up about the situation.
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
• Impressed by the latter, Franklin asked him to work up a film treatment.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
• There’s even a rowing machine tucked in the ADU, for when the desire to work up a sweat arises.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• The kids would eat pancakes and drink hot chocolate in his presence and work up their courage.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2023
• One young man is trying to work up his nerve; the other is afraid of making a wrong move.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• Peter Gallagher had to work up the courage to ask out his now-wife Paula Harwood.
  — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
• Going for a hygge style in your home but can't work up the courage to utter the term to your designer?
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 22 July 2019
• There may be hints in the plot description that point to your tear ducts getting all worked up.
  — Chris Bellamy and Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 10 May 2024
• Start with lower weights so that you can get used to the position, then work up from there.
  — Kirk Charles, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
• Benton got some work up the depth chart during camp and the group and has a chance to make at a thin position.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2020
• The more daring may have worked up a Southern-rock standby.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2019
• To have somewhere that’s committed to putting my work up in New York City is huge.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
• The pad works up to 33% times faster than your usual, go-to chargers and keeps things safe and organized.
  — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
• The Bears have also partnered with Boka Restaurant Group to work up some new gameday grub.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024