How to Use collect up in a Sentence

collect up

verb
  • Hair samples were collected up to five times over four years.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Spouses who retire at 70 could collect up to $124,000.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Under current rules, an unemployed worker can collect up to 26 weeks of benefits during a 52-week year.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Households may now collect up to 10 cords of firewood and three Christmas trees, with the possibility of higher limits in areas with sufficient resources.
    — Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • State regulators planned to collect up to 150 samples from October to December, a small fraction of the more than $1 billion in marijuana products sold in the state annually.
    — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2026
  • From Cookie Dough Pompompurin to Cherry Hello Kitty, customers can collect up to 12 scented figures or three color-changing spoons.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • The new Food Waste Segregation Ware Wash System at Cathay Dining uses special conveyors to separate food scraps from packaging and servingware, collecting up to 550 tons of organic material per day.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Frederick County has already collected some $55 million in taxes from the Quantum Frederick project, and could collect up to $215 million annually starting in 2036, according to an October study by consulting firm HR&A Analysis.
    — Lily Carey, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Mana has continued to have much success over the decades — amassing global record sales of over 45 million and collecting up several cabinets’ worth of trophies, including four Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards, 19 Billboard Latin Music Awards and 15 Premios Lo Nuestro awards.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025

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