Up example sentences

Related (10): down, rise, ascend, elevate, increase, upward, above, higher, upstairs, climb

"Up" Example Sentences

  1. I woke up at six in the morning feeling completely exhausted.
  2. She stood up from the table and walked out without saying a word.
  3. Can you turn the volume up? I can barely hear the dialogue.
  4. He's been saving up for a car since he was sixteen.
  5. The kids are acting up again — I think they need to go outside.
  6. My coffee's getting cold, so I'm going to drink up and head out.
  7. They're breaking up after five years together, which honestly surprised nobody.
  8. I messed up the presentation, and now my boss is furious.
  9. She grew up in a small town and never wanted to leave.
  10. The price of gas keeps going up every single week.
  11. Let's wrap up this meeting — we've been here for two hours.
  12. He called me up out of nowhere after ten years of silence.
  13. I can't believe you're giving up so easily when you're this close.
  14. The sun came up over the mountains, and for a moment everything felt possible.
  15. They're cleaning up the park this weekend if you want to help.
  16. My sister's been stressed up to her eyeballs with wedding planning.
  17. I'm fed up with people canceling plans at the last second.
  18. The company's trying to cover up what really happened, but everyone knows.
  19. He looked up from his phone and finally noticed I was crying.
  20. We need to speed up production or we'll miss the deadline completely.
  21. She's been building up her confidence for months before the audition.
  22. The argument heated up fast, and suddenly we weren't speaking anymore.
  23. I'm thinking about moving up my vacation because work is killing me.
  24. They set up the tent in the dark, which was a terrible idea.
  25. Can we talk about what's going on up there in your head?
  26. The whole situation blew up in their faces within a week.
  27. I've been putting up with his behavior for way too long.
  28. She made up her mind to quit, and nothing was going to change it.
  29. The kids won't settle down — they're all wound up from sugar.
  30. He's been working up the courage to ask her out for months now.

Common Phrases

  1. wake up
  2. stand up
  3. give up
  4. grow up
  5. break up
  6. set up
  7. make up
  8. turn up
  9. show up
  10. end up
  11. look up
  12. pick up
  13. bring up
  14. up to
  15. up and down

Examples by Level

A1
  1. Stand up when the teacher comes in.
  2. Wake up early in the morning.
A2
  1. I'm saving up money for a new bicycle.
  2. She grew up in the city with her family.
B1
  1. He finally worked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
  2. The situation got heated up pretty quickly once people started arguing.
B2
  1. She's been putting up with his excuses for far too long, and everyone can see it.
  2. The whole plan blew up when they realized nobody had actually checked the details.
C1
  1. What began as a minor disagreement escalated and built up into something neither of them could control or take back.
  2. He'd spent years building up a reputation that was dismantled in a single afternoon of poor judgment.
C2
  1. There's a particular exhaustion that comes from perpetually keeping up appearances — the kind that settles into your bones and never quite leaves.
  2. She understood that sometimes the most courageous thing wasn't to stand up and fight, but to recognize when it was time to step away entirely.

Examples by Scenario

🏠 Everyday Life
  1. I woke up this morning and immediately knew it was going to be one of those days.
  2. The neighbor's dog keeps waking me up at three in the morning with its barking.
💼 Workplace
  1. My boss called me up to her office, and I spent the whole walk there convinced I was getting fired.
  2. We need to speed up the project timeline, which means everyone's working weekends now.
📊 Business
  1. The startup is scaling up operations and hiring fifty new people by next quarter.
  2. Our competitors are ramping up their marketing spend, so we need to match it or lose market share.
🛒 Buying / Shopping
  1. I'm thinking about upgrading my phone, but the prices keep going up every time I check.
  2. The store was out of my usual brand, so I ended up buying something more expensive.
✈️ Travel
  1. We're flying up to Alaska next month for a hiking trip we've been planning forever.
  2. The hotel messed up our reservation, so we ended up in a different room than we booked.
📚 Education
  1. The teacher brought up a topic that made half the class really uncomfortable.
  2. I'm studying up for the exam because I completely bombed the last one.
❤️ Relationships
  1. We broke up three months ago, and I'm still not over it, if I'm being honest.
  2. He finally opened up about what's been bothering him, and it explained everything.
📰 News / Politics
  1. The scandal is heating up as more details come out about what actually happened.
  2. The government is cracking down on corruption, though critics say it's mostly for show.
💻 Technology
  1. I'm upgrading my laptop because the new software keeps slowing it up.
  2. The app crashed and lost all my data, so I'm backing up everything manually from now on.
📝 Formal Writing
  1. The research indicates that productivity increases when companies implement flexible scheduling up to a certain point.
  2. The proposed legislation aims to tighten regulations on emissions, building up stricter standards over the next five years.

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