How to Use ring up in a Sentence

ring up

verb
  • As the cashier rang up his purchase, the sticker shock hit hard.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Judges can ring up it to three times to save a contestant within the first three rounds.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Products ring up for less than $18, with most priced at less than $10.
    — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2022
  • The hackers rang up the helpdesk and pretended to be members of staff who had lost their passwords.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • About 10% of sales were rung up during the last five days before Christmas.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
  • His only unproductive at-bat was in the sixth, when he was rung up looking on a low pitch out of the zone.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 7 May 2025
  • Its stores and restaurants typically ring up more than $1 billion a year in sales.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Diekman rung up Drew Millas to end the game and earn his second save of the season.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
  • Jack rings up Babe once more, hoping to convince her to grant him absolution.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Even as Tavares rang up big numbers during the season, talks didn’t really pick up.
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • At one point, Perryman had two steaks in a bag but only rang up one of them, the affidavit said.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Ole Miss rolled up a whopping 706 yards, and rang up three fourth-quarter touchdowns.
    — Chase Goodbread, The Tennessean, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The company quickly rang up $80 million in losses tied to the switch.
    — Phoebe Liu, Forbes, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The customer wanted to leave but the employee refused to ring up her purchase and was said to have threatened her.
    — cleveland, 21 May 2021
  • Wendy’s, which relies on teens to salt fries and ring up orders, added a way for applicants to apply for a job through their smartphones.
    — Paul Wiseman and Joseph Pisani, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2021
  • Nunes was working at the register at the time, prosecutors said, and rang up the $12 order.
    — Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • Nunes rang up the sale, which also included a bag of barbeque chips, spending a total of $12, the statement said.
    — Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • Instant replay showed that Diaz clearly broke the plane and should have been rung up as Kelly’s ninth strikeout of the night.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
  • The ones who serve the coffee, clean the office buildings, drive the Ubers, ring up the customers and work more than one job to care for their families.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Even if open ice is harder to come by in the playoffs, a six-game drought is substantial for a guy who rang up 46 goals in the regular season.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • The Giants have been rung up on fastballs 53 times, the eighth-most in the majors, and are watching even more go by early in their at-bats.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • The tour won rave reviews and rang up more than $575 million in ticket sales, according to Billboard.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The Hawkeyes rang up six sacks, but Iamaleava was poised and executed the Vols’ game plan in a 35-0 win.
    — Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Jones had made a questionable strike call in Correa’s previous at-bat, Clemens was rung up on a low strike in the sixth and Larnach the same in the seventh.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025
  • Even though Baltimore held the Texans to a single touchdown last year, Harbaugh knows the Texans can ring up points through the air.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Quist, owner of The People’s Goods, is teaching her great-niece Montana how to ring up customers on the cash register.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Things are bad enough — combustible enough — and that’s before Gary and Jack ring up Ray and Michael and tell them that two of their rams have appeared on their side of the hill, dead.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
  • With 2 outs and runners on 1st and 2nd in the bottom of the 7th, Carlson rung up Gleyber Torres on a pitch out of the strike zone.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • McDowell connected with Nick Marsh for a 60-yard scoring pass on the Panthers’ third play after the break, to ring up a 28-point lead.
    — Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022

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