How to Use add up in a Sentence

add up

verb

• And take it one step at a time—start with a small project, and each project in turn will add up to the greater whole.
  — Danny Asnani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• The math might not seem to add up, as the lists above contain a total of 68 medicines.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Aug. 2022
• The economics for wind projects still add up in many places, even without subsidies.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• For someone like myself who goes through these regularly, the savings add up over time.
  — al, 10 Aug. 2022
• But when gasoline cost around $3 a gallon, the savings that these cars provided didn’t always add up.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• In both cases, researchers have been able to track big plumes, but not all the little leaks that add up to substantial climate-warming effects.
  — Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
• Even so, the Monday after Thanksgiving adds up to billions of dollars in spending.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2024
• Commerce board members like Mike McNally maintain the math simply doesn’t add up.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• But all that data - dozens of tables that land every month on a government website - doesn’t add up to insight that can be used to guide policymaking.
  — Jennifer Tescher, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• All of this adds up, particularly considering Danson has never been the type for a lavish lifestyle.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2024
• All of this seems to add up in the collective imagination to an impression of a country on the brink, meeting all the conditions for a descent into civil unrest.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2022
• The nearly 80-year-old canals were built for flood irrigation, which is subject to evaporation, seepage and other issues that add up to lost water.
  — AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• This adds up to buying an electric sooner rather than later, agrees auto journalist Ivan Drury, Edmonds director of insights.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
• The Treasury secretary’s numbers from a letter to the IRS commissioner simply don’t add up.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 12 Aug. 2022
• The effect is accumulative and devastating, and the memoir’s many pieces add up to an inventive reckoning with cultural silence.
  — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022
• But adding up the mass of the quarks alone doesn’t give you the mass of the proton.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• Does that risk add up, or does each roll of the dice stand alone?
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 20 Sep. 2023
• Hey, the math isn’t adding up, but that was never your thing.
  — Kate Hakala, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Think of stressors adding up like tiles in a game of Tetris.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
• For starters, the math doesn’t add up, the analysis found.
  — Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2022
• The price of gas, train passes, and more can quickly add up.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
• Yet that hit to GDP could add up in a lengthy shutdown.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• The rings in the newest James Webb image add up to 160 years’ worth of dust trails.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
• But for the past week, to get to and from the Metro station, she’s had to book rides that have added up to more than $200.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• And as a first time Marathon trainee, those long run miles begin to add up.
  — Jamie Prokell, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022
• If those would’ve been fines, that would add up to about $2 million.
  — Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• At the end of the first vote for speaker, the tally clerks add up the numbers and announce the totals to the House.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
• But as the challenges add up, so do the shifts in perspective.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• The Sherman Minton Renewal project could add up to 30 years of life to the bridge, Brady said.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2022
• All of these things just add up more and more for this character.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024