How to Use buy up in a Sentence

buy up

verb
  • Each person can buy up to two tickets.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The village made room, buying up land.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Attendees can buy up to two zines at the event while supplies last.
    — Pitchfork, 28 May 2025
  • With Black and white kids buying up the tickets, the show sold out.
    — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2025
  • His son bought up the tools of the trade and put them to use, running chain lines late into his life.
    — Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The store bought up some local art of Francine, too, and displays it in the store.
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
  • At that price, oil companies would normally race to buy up land and drill new wells.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Private equity is buying up our homes, our sports, and our lives.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
  • Omega opened to a packed house with clients already buying up timepieces the opening night.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Even Sitake’s children started buying up the shirts to have around the house.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But the town is losing its identity as wealthy investors buy up homes for short-term rentals.
    — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But for now, choose which side of the Targaryen civil war to join — or to simply buy up.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • Dozens of attendees buy up nearly every loaf and bag of whole wheat flour within a few hours.
    — Ryan Kellman, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
  • So there's in fact, investors delighted to come in and buy up those properties.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Gone were the days when studios like Gimlet were flush with cash and hungry to buy up new talent.
    — Eric Benson, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Cohen has also been buying up GameStop stock.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Each person will be allowed to buy up to 40 tickets in total, with a cap of four per match.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Visitors can buy up to 12 campground permits and three lodge rooms.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Which is how Mona comes to pull up at the roadside where Julia sells her baked goods, and to buy up her whole stock.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 29 May 2023
  • In the past few weeks, as cases have ratcheted up, people scrambled to buy up rapid tests with stores selling out in just a few hours.
    — Huizhong Wu, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Not much is natural, though, about buying up and seeding vast swathes of land with crops meant to serve a single purpose.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • William Warham, the archbishop of Canterbury, called for more copies to be bought up and burned.
    — Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • But where does Ted Turner live now that other tycoons have bought up enough acreage to surpass his record?
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2026
  • More consumers are reaching for snacks and ditching ready-to-serve soups, and the company has bought up other food lines to grab them.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • And tech companies are buying up a lot of Nvidia’s costly chips—to the tune of billions of dollars.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
  • At what point does Manassas find out that Mickey Mouse is buying up their land?
    — Peter Balonon-Rosen, Vox, 4 July 2025
  • Work continues to crack down on bots Work continues still to crack down on bots buying up chunks of tickets.
    — Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the initial rush to buy up metaverse property, there’s no doubt that the buzz has cooled off among many industries.
    — Ryan Serhant, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • By 1987, Chrysler had bought up the brand, putting their own Detroit spin on the new car along the way.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Starved of cash, Big Tech will struggle to buy up the small competitors that could someday grow to pose a threat to them.
    — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023

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