How to Use jack up in a Sentence

jack up

verb
  • Would the club dare to jack up prices a second year in a row?
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But these two teams do not just run up and down the floor, jacking up a lot of deep shots.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The company has been forced to jack up prices and lay off workers.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Bridges contorts his body, and jacks up an errant layup, but the play isn’t done there.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • How Trump’s baseless claim that Biden is ‘jacked up’ on drugs spread.
    — Theodoric Meyer, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • And then coming down and just jacking up a dribble pull-up is not a good shot.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • McCollum jacked up a three, but Towns got a piece.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Inflation is jacking up the price of your favorite fast-food meal.
    — John Riley, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
  • Just our spacing was a little jacked up, but that’s on me to get that organized.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 July 2024
  • Tariffs threaten to snarl supply lines and jack up costs for consumers.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
  • Most of them have owned a home and don't have to worry about if their landlords are going to jack up the rent.
    — Elena Moore, NPR, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But, for the price for consumers, if companies have already jacked up the price of food.
    — CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • But many of the same upwards pressures driving up down payments may jack up rents in the long run.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2024
  • That‘s not to say the Hoosiers didn’t jack up the payroll like everyone else.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Without it, a handful of companies can jack up prices.
    — Patrick Wolff, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
  • During the boom years, many festivals jacked up their ticket prices.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The Spurs seemed content to let Clingan jack up 3s.
    — Christian Clark, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Its bond investments fell in price as the Fed jacked up rates over the last year at the fastest pace in decades.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Padres can jack up prices when the Red Sox are visiting.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • You — because the retailers are going to jack up the price and put it on the consumer.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Some buffets jack up their prices on weekends or charge customers for uneaten food.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The spike in quits at that time helped drive up wage gains as companies jacked up pay to try to find or keep employees.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The future is here, and it is jacked up on B vitamins, red dye, and taurine.
    — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And if [local governments] jack up sales tax and water and other fees, they get harmed.
    — Jim Defede, CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • This is done by jacking up the car, then draining the old oil into a pan and replacing it with new oil.
    — Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 19 June 2025
  • The recent protein hubbub is teetering on overblown—not every snack food needs to be jacked up with the stuff.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In both instances, shipping is an additional fee, jacking up the price even more.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • But the league has changed its philosophy where everybody’s looking to jack up open three-point shots.
    — Danyel Smith, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • Trump has been pressuring the Fed to lower rates, even as his tariffs are jacking up prices.
    — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 31 July 2025
  • In most cases, 3D was a rip-off — a carny-barker way for studios to jack up ticket prices.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023

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