How to Use jack up in a Sentence

jack up

verb

• By the end of the year, OPEC had jacked up the price of oil by nearly 800%.
  — Robert Hormats, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Its bond investments fell in price as the Fed jacked up rates over the last year at the fastest pace in decades.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Step 3: Unscrew the wheel nuts The best way to loosen the wheel nuts is while the tire is still on the ground, meaning it is not jacked up yet.
  — Lauren Farrell, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• The Fed jacks up rates to slow demand and bring down inflation.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• George’s overhaul is jacked up even more in the musical.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• But as the Fed jacked up rates, SVB's investments lost value.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
• How getting ‘jacked up’ by police helped shape the LAPD’s chief watchdog.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• In most cases, 3D was a rip-off — a carny-barker way for studios to jack up ticket prices.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• At one point, Endeavour will need to be jacked up — to avoid striking a building — moved and then jacked back down for the rest of the journey.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• In response, the Fed began jacking up its benchmark short-term rate in March 2022.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 4 July 2023
• At one point, Endeavour will need to be jacked up 4 or 5 feet — to avoid striking a building — moved and then jacked back down for the rest of the journey.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• The trip round Africa can add about 10 days to journey times and requires more fuel and crew-time, jacking up shipping costs.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2024
• Still, the more streamers jack up their prices, the fewer services, presumably, people will want to shell out for.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
• Like a frenzied point guard trying to jack up his assist numbers, Peter Biskind needs to dish.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The Fed has jacked up rates at a furious pace from early last year, up to a range of 4.75% to 5% from virtually zero.
  — CBS News, 2 May 2023
• After gaining these rights, the company jacked up the price of the medication.
  — Peter Ubel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Job growth has remained resilient for most of the past 2 1/2 years even after high inflation flared and the Fed jacked up interest rates at the fastest pace in four decades.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Last year, the Fed jacked up its benchmark rate at a breakneck pace, including by three-quarters of a point on four occasions.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 21 June 2023
• The economy has remained remarkably solid, even though the Fed has jacked up rates to slow it and inflation down.
  — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
• In both instances, shipping is an additional fee, jacking up the price even more.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 29 June 2023
• But streaming’s glory days might already be over: The war to win over subscribers at any cost is done and streamers are jacking up prices to shore up profits.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Petersons didn’t start taking reservations, jack up prices or create a new menu.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
• Some buffets jack up their prices on weekends or charge customers for uneaten food.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Church needs to better explain why San Mateo County jacked up the cost so much, making the recount so much more expensive to achieve.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• In response, the Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates to their highest level in 20 years and has left them there for months.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
• Security in the building itself was jacked up to fortress levels.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• The Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates to slow the red-hot economy.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
• Many companies jacked up the charges by more than what was required to cover their rising costs, and that fattened their profit margins.
  — Paul Davidson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Jan. 2024
• Other owners feel the fees are more transparent than simply jacking up prices.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024