How to Use live up to in a Sentence

live up to

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  • By the end of his second season, Arnold hadn’t yet lived up to his first-round status.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • He’s been dealing with injury issues and has not exactly lived up to the pre-draft hype.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • But there’s also tragedy, not least in the nation’s failure to live up to its exalted ideals.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
  • The claims are certainly big, but fans guarantee that this shampoo lives up to all of its promises.
    — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 26 June 2026
  • Cech was concerned about living up to the legacy of such a nuanced character, which led to her putting her best foot forward.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • On offense at least, Bregman hasn’t lived up to expectations.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • The products are chic, effective, and live up to their promises, and count Demi Moore as a fan.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • She’s worked hard to live up to the Holmes name, creating her own detective agency in London.
    — ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • In the wild, Sumatran orangutans typically live up to 30 years.
    — Reeti Malhotra july 1, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • The 2026 World Cup opened its knockout stage in style, and made the beautiful game live up to its billing.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • The AirPods Pro 3 are one of those rare travel gadgets that live up to the hype, and Oprah would agree.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026
  • There were no requirements that states live up to its provisions, and there were no penalties if states failed to protect populations from mass atrocities.
    — Mike Brand, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Captain on the pitch whenever Alphonso Davies is absent, Eustaquio has lived up to his leadership role.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Lucas argued that the developers for the stadium and the surrounding district have lived up to their promises over the years.
    — Dylan Lysen june 30, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • Prior to the game, both players said Sutter Health Park had lived up to its reputation as a hitter-friendly ballpark.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • After so many dramatic and 11th-hour wins in the Round of 32, the World Cup's Round of 16 has much to live up to.
    — Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Tom Gerend, executive director for the streetcar authority, said the agency planned for an increase in ridership and the system has lived up to the moment.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • America, whose Constitution was formulated by white men, struggled to live up to its founding ideals in the days of slavery and displacement of Native Americans.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • But his tenure did not live up to expectations, even with a roster that included Hall of Famer Adrián Beltré, Kevin Brown and Gary Sheffield.
    — Liana Handler, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • The company, led by CEO Alex Karp, has also had some sky-high expectations to live up to, including triple-digit price-to-earnings and enterprise value-to-sales multiples over the past several quarters, both of which are now trending down.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 29 June 2026
  • In cases when a state was unwilling to live up to its responsibility to protect civilians or was itself the perpetrator of mass atrocities, then the responsibility shifted to the wider international community through the United Nations.
    — Mike Brand, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2023
  • This newest microsupercapacitor in fact lives up to its prefix, says Abha Misra, a professor of instrumentation and applied physics at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bengaluru.
    — Prachi Patel, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Unfortunately, due to the Tijuana River pollution crisis, the USMCA has not lived up to the original promise of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
    — Serge Dedina, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2026

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