How to Use markup in a Sentence

markup

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• The retail markup on their products is 25 percent.
• Or the fact that the prices reflected quite the markup.
  — Washington Post, 29 May 2022
• Now, the trend is reversing and the markup has shrunk to 6%.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Even at a 100% markup, the shirts were a bargain at $5.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
• His reason behind the markup was to keep the painting in the gallery.
  — Jennifer Sawhney, Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2022
• That coffee markup doesn’t seem to be enough for them, though.
  — Richard Hunt, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• For next year, teams have time to plan and get some of that markup for themselves.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• The recipient, not the sender, had to pay for the letter, and the markup was hefty.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• The bill has been repeatedly tweaked and changed in the lead-up to a planned markup.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023
• With most package stores, the state would receive $13.93 of that retail price as the markup.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Those devices would then be sent back to China and sold at a markup.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
• Which is to say, she was being charged a nearly 1,000% markup.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2021
• It's shipped and sold from a third-party retailer, hence the markup.
  — Jaina Grey Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2022
• The markup may be to retail price, or there could be an increase of up to 30% above retail.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
• The markup on a casket is often three to five times wholesale, so be leery.
  — Kevin Brasler, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• The lawmakers said a markup of four bills will occur on May 2.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2023
• The same holds true for the candies and the sodas, Persaud said, adding that the markup is largely due to shipping costs.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2022
• The markup on hot foods like pizza and burgers can be as high as 30 percent.
  — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2022
• Sam taught me how to formulate the markup in my head without using the wheel.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2020
• There’s the whole thing the Trump Treasury did with the cost services method and not applying it to the whole amount, but only to the markup.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The committee markup made clear that the particular shape and scope of the bill are very much in flux.
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 17 May 2021
• That cost is passed through by utilities; there is no markup.
  — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• The lender can also add a certain amount of markup as a fee for providing you the money in the first place.
  — Peter Lazaroff, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• The tech industry launched an all-out assault to thwart the US bills ahead of Wednesday's markup.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 24 June 2021
• Instacart workers are not paid those fees or for the markups on grocery store items.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The markups are as high as 66% in states like California and Nevada.
  — Alex Arriaga, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• But pumpkin spice pretzels from TraderJoe's saw the largest markup, at 161%.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2022
• Shoppers in the four states with the lowest rates were only willing to pay an 11 percent markup.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 22 Oct. 2022
• Essentially, Cuban’s company sells drugs based on the base price of the drug, plus a 15% markup and $5 pharmacy service and $5 shipping fees.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2024
• Snack foods tend to be made with inexpensive ingredients (corn, soy, potatoes) and sold at a heavy markup.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024

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mark up

2 of 2 verb

• Some are heavy with text and marked up with highlighters.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2024
• With a pass-through, utilities don't mark up the price of gas.
  — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 9 May 2021
• Some sellers online may mark up the price for a single can of the spray due to demand.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 29 Oct. 2020
• The entire Nectar Sleep website is marked up to 40% off but not for long.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 27 Nov. 2023
• Who would buy milk at a store if marked up randomly by $40 when the store across the street priced it as usual?
  — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 10 Aug. 2024
• This is where the sculpting comes in, and a tailor will mark up the adjustments needed to be made with chalk.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
• Walmart has added all new deals to its list of weekly flash picks with items marked up to 65 percent off.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2023
• It’s been marked up with notations in Sharpie, added after the poster was printed in 2006.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Walmart has added new all-new deals to its list of weekly flash picks with items marked up to 65 percent off.
  — Josie Howell | , al, 27 Mar. 2023
• Walmart has all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• Walmart has added all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 7 Aug. 2023
• Stefanski used to mark up Mannion’s play sheet in 2019, when both men were working for the Vikings.
  — cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
• The Senate has not marked up its own version of a telehealth extension yet.
  — Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 16 May 2024
• Last week, Fed officials sharply marked up their forecast of how high core inflation would be at the end of 2023.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Should the retailer just concede their delivery business to the apps or just mark up the items to make up for lost margins?
  — Kashyap Deorah, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• The floors and walls at Zwirner remain themselves, even after they’ve been marked up with his thin graffiti of green and white.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Panera is alleged to have marked up food prices for delivery orders by 5% to 7%, the plaintiffs wrote.
  — Eric Lagatta, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
• But beware of dealers taking advantage of the tight timeline and marking up the price.
  — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2023
• The retailer can mark up his or her prices from that base and still undercut some of the big competition.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
• So passing papers with your neighbors and then marking up in their margins with red pen.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• As a student annotates a book for study, the faithful mark up their copies of Scripture, noting passages that speak to them.
  — Nicholas Tomaino, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
• Really on sale, not like the phony Black Friday deals that were marked up and then discounted.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
• That's frustrating, given that the point of spending this kind of money is to write on it (marking up books is better on the Kobo Elipsa).
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023
• That's frustrating given the point of spending this kind of money is to write on it (marking up books is better on the Kobo Elipsa).
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• Moreover, each of them had been marked up beyond what anyone would consider fair.
  — Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
• Under the law, retailers must mark up the price of gas by 6% over certain costs or 9.18% over the average wholesale price, whichever is greater.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2022
• The autographed first editions and galleys marked up by prominent authors were kept in a locked room.
  — Hernan Diaz, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• When the House went on recess on June 23, seven appropriations bills had been marked up.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 8 July 2023
• Now that Trader Joe's has taken that step and marked up bananas, what will keep the more discerning customers coming into the stores?
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2024
• Items are marked up to 30% off the lowest ticketed price, according to the discount home goods retailer.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024