How to Use shack up in a Sentence

shack up

verb
  • Madonna shacked up in the Bernstein suite for months at a time.
    — Lindsey Tramuta, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Brush piles with enough cover can hold a couple deer, and breeding pairs often shack up in such spots.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Female plains spadefoots can count on their ponds to be deep and homey, and will gladly shack up with males of their own ilk.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
  • He’s been living in the team hotel since the spring and is unclear how long he’s allowed to shack up there.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And there is nowhere more fun to shack up with friends than Life House, Palm Springs.
    — Juliet Izon, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Your horse friends, meanwhile, shack up in a 31-stall stable featured close by on the property.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
  • These eight spots offer exemplary versions, found at seafood counters in the city, and on oyster farms and in fish shacks up and down the coast.
    — Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The idea of finding a relative stranger to shack up with was becoming ever more appealing.
    — Stefanie Groner, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Max is back on her skateboard, Hop and Joyce have shacked up, and everyone seems really happy.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Ample green space and the nearby dockage for your favorite water toys are more perks to shacking up at the waterfront mansion.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Alex De Bard soothes in the role of an Amsterdam squatter with whom the Youth shacks up.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • One recent study even suggested that climate change may be pushing certain European toads to shack up with the wrong species.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
  • Leaves changing and temperatures dropping can quickly transform the desire to couple up into the urge to shack up.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The heated kitchen moment also proves to Kat that there are some very positive upsides to her and Elliot shacking up.
    — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 27 Jan. 2025
  • There was a Rockaway Shack Olympics that brought together all the shacks up and down the beach to compete against one another.
    — Curbed Editors, Curbed, 23 June 2026
  • Avery’s best friend, Frances, has decamped to North Carolina to shack up with a plain, natural ram’s-horn sort of man.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Avery’s best friend, Frances, has decamped to North Carolina to shack up with a plain, natural ram’s-horn sort of man.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • For Emily, Gabriel’s pregnant ex and her new lover shacking up in the same apartment building as her boyfriend has been incredibly messy.
    — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Would-be paranormal investigators shack up with the spirits in this new unscripted series.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Here, lady albatrosses will shack up to co-parent, sometimes cohabitating for years at a time, researchers have found.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Philip’s mother Myra rants about the immorality of Liam’s mother having shacked up with their lodger.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • Here, a former prom king and queen who abruptly lost sight of each other in college shack up for professional reasons — and close proximity rekindles dormant sparks.
    — Carole V. Bell, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In retrospect, this is totally normal, since most of us decided to shack up with our family members during the global pandemic.
    — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 17 July 2020
  • Johnson, who has now shacked up with a Native American woman and her child, is getting acclimated to frontier living.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Then too, the couple shared their experience via Instagram, including shacking up at a luxury hotel called Calilo.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, Gemini and Sagittarius usually remain blithely unaware of these schemes to dissuade them from shacking up.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 31 July 2024
  • Residents in the downtown-adjacent area are known to shack up in craftsman- and Victorian-style homes, but there are also modern residences that step outside the usual real estate box.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Of course, no trip would be complete without afternoon tea, taking in a show at Shakespeare's Globe, and shacking up at a five-star London legend like Claridge's.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2024
  • The quieter moments, however, attracted Hall to shack up in The Night House, which explores topics of suicide, mental illness and grief.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Crystal homeowners Anna and Patrick Fischer, plus their two children, are shacking up with their in-laws in Montana to avoid a near-7% mortgage rate.
    — Sami Sparber, Axios, 3 Aug. 2024

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