How to Use shoot up in a Sentence

shoot up

verb
  • Needly trees shot up all around it.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Gas and diesel prices also have shot up.
    — ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • Phones shot up into the air with signs of life.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • Oil prices shot up and stock markets dipped.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The price of gas has shot up, and food prices followed.
    — Essence, 20 Nov. 2025
  • And that’s even has home prices have shot up over 70% in that span.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 May 2024
  • And fuel prices have shot up by around 30%.
    — ABC News, 7 May 2026
  • And the cost per ton of recycling has shot up.
    — Eric Kober, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The gold market shot up like a rocket.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Diesel prices have also shot up quickly in the past weeks.
    — Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Someone shot up in the bathroom and left his rig on the floor.
    — Carole Hinojosa august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond Meat has seen its shares shoot up more than five-fold.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 15 June 2019
  • Vance is going to shoot up as the most shocking death, for sure.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Support for the police was at an all-time low and crime shot up.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • The middle of his body went first while his legs shot up into the air.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The wildness that shot up in a man’s eye when his lips were yanked back to take the bit.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Over the past few years, rents and home prices in Jacksonville have shot up.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
  • But serve up cheese omelet’s with a side of greasy sausage too often and the health risks may shoot up.
    — Matthew Kadey Rd, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
  • Home prices will, of course, shoot up too—and with it, the household debt burden.
    — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 11 June 2019
  • In that case, the put options fail to pay off, even as your groceries bills shoot up.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Some species shoot up to 4 feet tall, but the hybrids are more compact.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Beamer has a chance to shoot up these rankings in the coming years.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 19 July 2022
  • The lady was threatening to come back with a gun and shoot up the place.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Apr. 2018
  • This is great for Casey’s business and revenue starts to shoot up.
    — Yec, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The median home price has shot up 47% in just the last five years.
    — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Suddenly, a man grabbed one of the trans women and a whoop shot up from the crowd.
    — Khushbu Shah and Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In summer, spikes of blue-purple flowers shoot up.
    — Jamie McIntosh, The Spruce, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Oil and fuels prices have shot up across the world as a result of the Iran war.
    — Max Burman, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Both shot up the draft ranks this season, and Lewis is ranked as high as No.
    — Brody Miller, nola.com, 3 June 2019
  • The mussels then shoot up thousands of larvae into the gills of the eels.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021

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