How to Use foul up in a Sentence

foul up

verb

• Got there late, being fouled up en route by getting on wrong tube.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
• That’s how the Patriots can score, by fooling the other team or forcing it to foul up.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Bill Plaschke warns that Rob Pelinka must not foul up again, as if Pelinka has anything to do with any of this.
  — latimes.com, 21 June 2019
• That is, one can’t simply be plugged into the other without fouling up the picture.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
• Pike doesn't have a lot of chances to foul up with his dad, Dayton head football coach Jeff Nations, following his progress.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2018
• Multiple automakers are about to start tests of driverless cars in which there is no one behind the steering wheel waiting to take over in case the car fouls up.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• Within hours of opening, Brightline’s online reservation system fouled up, showing that tickets were sold out for weeks.
  — Wayne K. Roustan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• If his mechanics are fouled up and if his pocket presence is askew, those aren’t little things, and no one other than hot-take artists are saying he is seriously maligned.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
• Fields’s recruitment was an enigma before injuries fouled up the quarterback situations of two programs high on his list, and now there’s even less clarity about his future.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• Conversations on hate speech and the toxic language fouling up online debates about the elections were potential fodder for a separate machine-learning research project.
  — Dune Lawrence, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Radiation fouled up their microprocessors and camera components.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 1 May 2018

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