How to Use go up in a Sentence

go up

verb
  • Food and gas prices have gone up.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 13 May 2026
  • Eggs had gone up like four times.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2026
  • One of those four goes up in flames.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • So, how much could your plan go up?
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Prices will go up the week of the event.
    — Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Uso went up top for a plash and nailed it.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Those hopes have gone up in smoke this year.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • When bond prices go down, their yields go up.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • My weight would go up and down over the years.
    — Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And then the one next to that went up for sale.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Do your book sales go up when a movie comes out?
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Block’s shares went up 24% on the news.
    — semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Block’s shares went up 24% on the news.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Block’s shares went up 24% on the news.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The stakes of getting it wrong go up.
    — Joel Hron, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • And the stock price is still going up!
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • If anything, the bar has gone up.
    — Catherine Iger, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Gas prices went up again today.
    — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Your blood pressure would go up.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 14 June 2026
  • His stock has only gone up since.
    — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • None of it mattered once the ball went up.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Some crime did, other crime went up.
    — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The third class of e-bike goes up to 28 mph.
    — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • If anything, costs have gone up.
    — NBC news, 2 Nov. 2025
  • One's gone up, the other may go down.
    — Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And the volume tends to go up from there.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • One more time, the volume went up.
    — Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Enid’s placard goes up in flames.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Supply goes up, price comes down.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • And, what goes up must also come down.
    — Aly J Yale, CBS News, 22 June 2026

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