How to Use buy up in a Sentence

buy up

verb

• Even that took some sleight of hand, involving buying up every ticket in a theatre in order to be able to make the claim that it was sold out.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
• Elon Musk is buying up mansions in a wealthy part of Austin, Texas, in order to create a compound for his many children (11, so far) to roam.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 29 Oct. 2024
• The store bought up some local art of Francine, too, and displays it in the store.
  — Karri Peifer, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
• Even Sitake’s children started buying up the shirts to have around the house.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• But for now, choose which side of the Targaryen civil war to join — or to simply buy up.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 June 2022
• Which is how Mona comes to pull up at the roadside where Julia sells her baked goods, and to buy up her whole stock.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 29 May 2023
• Starved of cash, Big Tech will struggle to buy up the small competitors that could someday grow to pose a threat to them.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Swifties were buying up more than just the official gear.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
• The option to buy up to $5,000 more with your tax refund is a separate program.
  — Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• And tech companies are buying up a lot of Nvidia’s costly chips—to the tune of billions of dollars.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
• But the town is losing its identity as wealthy investors buy up homes for short-term rentals.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Members would be allowed to buy up to 25 grams — slightly less than an ounce — on any one day, but with a limit of 50 grams in a month.
  — Catie Edmondson, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• At that price, oil companies would normally race to buy up land and drill new wells.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2022
• With Trump poised to return to the White House, investors are buying up the banks for several reasons.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
• The lender, based in Green Bay, Wis., bought up smaller banks and focused on the kinds of Midwestern cities and towns that megabanks ignored.
  — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 6 July 2023
• In the past few weeks, as cases have ratcheted up, people scrambled to buy up rapid tests with stores selling out in just a few hours.
  — Huizhong Wu, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
• Dozens of attendees buy up nearly every loaf and bag of whole wheat flour within a few hours.
  — Ryan Kellman, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
• More consumers are reaching for snacks and ditching ready-to-serve soups, and the company has bought up other food lines to grab them.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
• So there's in fact, investors delighted to come in and buy up those properties.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• Tech billionaire Larry Page might be trying to buy up all of the world’s private islands—or at least a good chunk of them.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2024
• Juniper had to fend off activist investors buying up shares in 2013, and Goldman was there too.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 18 May 2024
• But there were also rumors that Jews were attempting to buy up the Temple Mount and would even destroy it.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• In response to the ugly economic news, traders bought up U.S. Treasuries, which are seen as a safe-haven asset.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2024
• People over 21 can buy up to an ounce of cannabis products per day from these South Jersey retailers.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2022
• Not much is natural, though, about buying up and seeding vast swathes of land with crops meant to serve a single purpose.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Despite the initial rush to buy up metaverse property, there’s no doubt that the buzz has cooled off among many industries.
  — Ryan Serhant, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Some firms splurged on buying up stakes in European clubs in order to raise the standards of Chinese soccer.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 27 May 2024
• More than a decade ago, the state started allowing certain contractors to buy up unpaid bills from the state, then collect the late fees.
  — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024
• The gruesome history of Parchman dates back to 1901, when the State of Mississippi bought up former plantation land in the heart of the Delta.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• The new program allows customers to buy up to 100% of their consumption from solar or wind power sources.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024