How to Use markup in a Sentence

markup

1 of 2 noun
  • The retail markup on their products is 25 percent.
  • Berger, whose Tabaholism was second to none, would have recoiled at such a markup.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The company buys gas at a wholesale rate and passes that price on to customers without any markup.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Profit, then, is simply the markup multiplied by the number of products that can be sold.
    Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
  • In theory, a patient would pay the wholesale price with a small markup for the wholesaler’s profit.
    Robin Feldman, STAT, 23 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The markup is the difference between the price a firm charges for a product and the cost of producing an additional unit of the product.
    Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
  • But in Utah — where state law sets a firm 88% markup on all wine and spirits — consumers can actually nab bottles for much less.
    Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Hearings and markups of legislation were usually conducted without public oversight; votes often took place behind closed doors.
    John A. Lawrence, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The Senate Commerce Committee hasn't taken up the legislation, and has delayed a markup four times.
    Maria Curi, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The report now heads to a subcommittee markup, where a vote to adopt the final report is expected to take place before any legislative proposals are introduced.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Advertising agencies engage in arbitrage, buying ad inventory at a discount from publishers and selling it at a markup to their own clients.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Margins also can reflect the power of a brand and consumers’ willingness to tolerate large markups on fashionable or popular items, such as a unique pair of sneakers or a designer dress.
    Amelia Lucas,melissa Repko, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Yet, the Armed Services Committee still convened and held a public markup of the waiver, which passed without a single vote from my Democrat colleagues.
    al, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The San Francisco Fed found that corporate markups, what some might call price gouging, are not a primary contributor to inflation.
    CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • 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
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mark up

2 of 2 verb
  • 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 | Jhowell@al.com, 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 | Jhowell@al.com, 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 | Jhowell@al.com, 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
  • Wednesday, the Oversight committee will mark up the bill and allow members to propose amendments.
    Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021

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