How to Use workup in a Sentence

workup

1 of 2 noun
  • Ask him to get a full workup to put your mind at ease.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • From there, the workup depends on what a doctor finds.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • As part of their workup, doctors ran a CT scan.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • The first step would involve a complicated hours-long workup.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Fatigue and anemia may prompt an internal medicine workup.
    — Sarah Berg, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Hiller flew out to Santa Rosa to get a detailed workup on the left tackle.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2020
  • An annual blood workup might signal that your routine is too focused on one domain.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Any athlete testing positive must go through a full cardiac workup before they are cleared.
    — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The nightmares awoke her from sleep with acute chest pain, necessitating a cardiac workup.
    — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Doctors in starched white coats walk the hallways at a clip, darting to and from consultations and workups with clients.
    — Jessica Chia, Allure, 25 Dec. 2019
  • How many of the 20% of breast cancers are going to be in that one of five women who elect to not get the further workup?
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 17 Apr. 2023
  • After a 20-minute workup, the buck was injected with a reversal drug.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The severity of the initial illness helps determine what the cardiac workup will be.
    — Giana Han, al, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Read more in Tara’s thorough workup about how all this moneymaking can affect patients.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 29 June 2026
  • But most of the time people will get better on their own, without intervention or extensive workup.
    — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • In truth, a high-quality digital workup synthesizes how traits affect every part of your life.
    — Lucy Jones april 11, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Sometimes the workup is reassuring.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Over three to four hours, these people went through an exhaustive medical workup by a variety of specialists.
    — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 30 June 2021
  • To see if early heart disease may be a factor in your ED, Bankstein suggests a full workup at the doctor.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Eight hours later, he was carried out of the building on a blanket, finally breaking free of its walls, to get a full medical workup.
    — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • People with these kinds of symptoms, Waxman said, need to come in for an immediate workup, even if most will not turn out to be heart attacks.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Each dog is given a physical workup including blood work to ensure there are no underlying health issues.
    — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Don did all the psychological workup for gender reassignment during that time, working out of our house.
    — Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • The rest of the infectious disease workup, including testing for malaria, was negative.
    — Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2020
  • While these kinds of examples are dramatic, the reality is that most kids don’t need an extremely-rapid genetic workup.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Bloody stool, severe pain, unexplained weight loss or persistent changes in your bathroom habits all call for a gastroenterologist and a real workup, not a mail-in kit.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2026
  • While the road ahead may be long and difficult, intellectual honesty, objectivity, and a thorough workup are the first steps in this process.
    — Anand Kumar, STAT, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The workup to make these diagnoses accurately is complicated and time-intensive.
    — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 16 June 2023
  • Because of the sort of tumor her doctors suspected, the medical workup would require an injection of a chemical that would be deadly to the fetus.
    — Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The hospital started doing a full NAT workup, which is for non-accidental trauma.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024

work up

2 of 2 verb
  • Thou shalt not get too worked up about the chat!
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 18 May 2026
  • Not that Spud gets too worked up about it.
    — Kevin Sherrington feb. 10, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Hike just enough of it to work up an appetite.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Steam loosens any dirt on the floor, even working up sticky residue.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Step by step, work up to trimming one nail, then more than one at a time.
    — Sarah Ellis, National Geographic, 17 May 2018
  • The players looked worked up at times and the fans are nervous.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
  • To this day, working up a mess of beans soothes and centers me.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This isn’t a film worth getting worked up over, for better or for worse.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Getting worked up over a setback?
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • Most people start with the small-college jobs and then work up to the big one.
    — Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • Start the blender on low and work up to medium-high speed, adding the canola oil in a stream.
    — Alexandra Hall, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • The brand claims these can work up to 10 hours or more when fully charged.
    — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Celeste worked up to three jobs at a time and launched a food business from her home.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Why are people worked up about Nipah virus?
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The season is too long to get worked up by three games in August.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • These surveys drop a lot of hard, time-consuming work up front.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • The idea is to help newer wine drinkers start off on the lighter wines and work up to bold flavors.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Shit happens when two like-minded people get worked up about the same idea.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The film has been non-stop for years, and the team worked up until the last minute to perfect it.
    — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • For one thing, the soil around here is bone dry, the plant life has worked up a mighty thirst, and stream flows are low.
    — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • When school is out, they’re allowed to work up to eight hours a day and 40 hours a week.
    — Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The victim was told to work up to 20 hours a day, seven days a week.
    — Tim Fang, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • The kids would eat pancakes and drink hot chocolate in his presence and work up their courage.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Callie didn’t want to believe that the wilderness is a part of her, and she got worked up.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • By the end of the photo shoot, the hunting party had worked up an appetite.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • However, guests can work up a sweat in the bright gym, open 24/7.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2025
  • He's expected to go there, play for the academy and try to work up the ranks.
    — Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Some have already talked to a parent; others are working up the nerve.
    — Carolyn O'Laughlin, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
  • Slowly, the team works up to all six planes and begins flying closer to the ground.
    — William Langhorne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2019
  • Impressed by the latter, Franklin asked him to work up a film treatment.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021

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