How to Use join up in a Sentence
join up
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Those in that pool are less willing to join up than ever.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 18 June 2024
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The three joined up on Orchard Street, outside one of the walkups that house the museum.
—Ismail Ibrahim, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
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Surrounding these two are the shields of houses that joined up on each side.
—Alexis Nedd, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
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That’s one of the Sardaukar, the emperor’s army, who join up with the Harkonnens to take back Arrakis.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024
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One member joined up after stumbling across the group’s game night.
—Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
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In 1981, a couple of local guys started a band and Keith joined up.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
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Garrity and Wood joined up in mid-April, leasing a 400-square-foot room inside.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2024
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Lucy joins up with the Ghoul/Cooper on his hunt for Hank, and Maximus survives a grisly bullet wound.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
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Will Nelson recover from his mystery ailment in time to join up with the tour next week?
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2024
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His son died in his absence, his wife divorced him, and Rake joined up with Nic, precipitating the events of Extraction.
—Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
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His father joined up at the beginning of that fight, at the urging of Iraq’s highest Shiite religious leader.
—Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
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But Cummings jumped at the opportunity to join up with the Giving Pledge, and to use the attention big gifts can garner to inspire others.
—Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
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James joined up with his personal trainer Mike Mancias to create Ladder in 2018.
—Victoriakhunt, Robb Report, 2 May 2023
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But remaining in Chicago in the ’60s seems like a deliberate refusal of joining up.
—Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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Of the 5,000 prisoners recently released, most are trying to flee to family in the calmer countryside, but plenty will stay in the capital to join up with their old gangs.
—Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
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That insight directed attention to the place where chromosomes 9 and 22 joined up, revealing the molecular source of the problem.
—WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
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To him, the little layered cake is a good illustration of French bureaucracy, with the different parts of the system not joined up and working together.
—Anne Pouzargues, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
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The two demonstrations eventually merged, as the political rally joined up with that of the families.
—Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
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Moten is Maximus, a former orphan who joins up with the paramilitary tech protectors in the Brotherhood of Steel and stumbles his way into a chance at greatness.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
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Germans, Scandinavians, Bohemians and even a handful of Irish joined up.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
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On Thursday, customers start lining up at least an hour before the restaurant opens, often greeting other regulars in the queue or joining up with another group.
—Priya Krishna, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
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Still, a law that took effect in March quietly removed the right to a pardon after six months of service, forcing criminals who join up to remain in the military until the end of the war, like others drafted into the army.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 22 June 2024
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Should the Television Academy follow the Oscars by joining up the categories, so that there are only nominations for best series, and not best comedy and best drama?
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
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When the hardware and software are all working together, with the ability to easily join up with friends and record clips, the One feels like a gaming experience that somehow beats Apple to the punch of fleshing out its own gaming ambitions.
—Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
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Another soldier, who joined up last year and asked to be identified only by his first name, Oleksiy, said that his unit had taken heavy losses as Russian troops directed artillery fire and aerial bombs onto their positions.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 31 July 2023
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Caire and Rotondo both joined up in 2015 as senior accountant and ticket manager, respectively.
—Marc Schneider, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
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But if the idea of Northern Ireland joining up with its southern neighbor now seems plausible, that stems from a different factor altogether—long-term demographic change, without which a vote in favor of Irish unity would be impossible to imagine.
—Daniel Finn, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2019
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Most likely, their population stayed relatively the same, the paper says, and resisted joining up with European and Anatolian farming societies.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
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