How to Use bid up in a Sentence

bid up

verb
  • The buying has bid up prices and forced yields down to near record lows.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • To try to troll scalpers, some have bid up prices of the hardware with no intent to buy.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 10 Dec. 2020
  • As buyers bid up prices, the housing market boomed…and then boomed some more.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • That’s pushed some investors to bid up put options to protect this year’s gains.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And don’t forget the lofty salaries paid to many of the region’s workers, which bid up prices.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Stock futures turned higher, while traders bid up the price of government bonds.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The court’s ruling wasn’t an all clear for investors to bid up stocks that have been hurt by the tariffs, though.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2026
  • That, in turn, means less money would be available to help bid up stock prices, Boockvar said.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 19 May 2025
  • Even still, investors have bid up the shares by over 30% in the past 12 months, to an all-time high.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • For a decade, rock-bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Still, those inflows have helped bid up the market to one of its priciest levels in history.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Still, investors have bid up the shares of Live Nation more than 20% so far this year.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Investors bid up the yields on long bonds (which are more sensitive to inflation because of their length).
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Every time management hikes the payout, investors bid up the stock in response.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • King dollar is living up to its name in recent weeks as investors ditch risk-assets, and bid up the safe-haven dollar.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2021
  • If blacks were earning less than whites with the same skills, black wages would be bid up by profit-maximizing entrepreneurs.
    — WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Part of the reason is high mortgage rates prevented buyers from bidding up the cost of housing.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Yeah, so initially the enablers of a technology are the ones that the market bids up.
    — Andy Mills, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Historically low rates are one reason buyers have been able to bid up the cost of housing so much in the last year.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Oregon has more open jobs than unemployed people, forcing companies to bid up wages to bring in staff.
    — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Today, they're being bid up as investors ponder, wait a second, there isn't yet a wallop of bad news, so why not buy the dip?
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Investors, too, have caught the bug, bidding up shares of smaller carriers most likely to be acquired.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 19 June 2025
  • Bidders register and can bid up to four times the assessed value of a property up for auction.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2024
  • Many tech stocks also got bid up recently on expectations for big profit growth far in the future.
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Investors have bid up the share prices of these companies now in anticipation of big profits down the road.
    — Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
  • But this run of speculation has bid up the price of housing and left people who actually need a place to live in the lurch.
    — Patrick Chovanec, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • In an economy running hot, employers face shortages of workers and must bid up their wages to attract staff.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • For much of the pandemic, mortgage rates below 3% enabled buyers to bid up housing to new heights.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Build the hype, sell the shares to people who will bid up the price for a share of that sure thing, and then look for the next IPO.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • That may be changing, as investors bid up protective options that would pay off sooner, and in the event of smaller market swings.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022

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