How to Use wall up in a Sentence

wall up

verb
  • Are her walls up higher than ever?
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • My usual self might’ve put some kind of social and mental wall up.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2024
  • Avoidant-avoidant duos, with all their sturdy walls up, might never form much of a bond at all.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Mills ran soon after and hopped a concrete wall up the street, prosecutors said.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Also, is doing an amazing job in getting that wall up and that technology done.
    — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 20 May 2026
  • Just last month, passersby spotted walls up at the site, a sign that construction work is already underway.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Being less direct and formal can help prevent your kid putting a wall up — as can chatting during car rides since not being face-to-face can feel less intimidating for them.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Living with this secret, having this wall up between ourselves and the audience and feeling like there’s something to be afraid of, has just felt like this barrier the whole time.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • But Buca only scored six points on 3-for-6 shooting, while the Jayhawks walled up inside and made paint scoring difficult.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The Hurricanes walled up early in the Fiesta Bowl, holding Ole Miss to minus-1 yard.
    — Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The Hurricanes walled up early in the Fiesta Bowl, holding Ole Miss to minus-1 yard.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • This rock hollowed out by erosion and walled up with stones was likely used by shepherds as a shelter near the historic Sardinian village of Tempio Pausania.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
  • The Hurricanes walled up early in the Fiesta Bowl, holding Mississippi to minus-one yard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Its medieval tower, with walls up to nearly 16 feet thick, was constructed largely during the reign of King Henry III.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
  • Those efforts, according to the city, included hiring a contractor to wall up using cinderblocks lower-level openings to the attached parking garage, a preferred route to gain access to the office tower.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The black curtain did blend in with the navy blue background on UConn’s Huskies of Honor wall up above the 200-level in Gampel Pavilion.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Also in Rutherford County, Murfreesboro has approved a site plan for a new In-N-Out that is under construction with walls up on Medical Center Parkway.
    — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025

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