How to Use put (someone) up to in a Sentence

put (someone) up to

phrasal verb

• On both sides of Atkinson Street, tents were put up to keep out the cold, about 20 in all.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• In some areas, simple fences or rock walls are put up to protect the panels.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2021
• Gross says the sculpture may have been damaged by a rock and the net was put up to protect it from the elements and vandals.
  — Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• With such things in mind, El Nacional claims that Alemany could put up to 11 current first team stars on the chopping block.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Stroll said his company plans to put up to four electric motors in its EVs.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 June 2023
• The buyers were developers Allen Rozansky and Alan Kay, who planned to put up to 130 homes on the sloping, forested site.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2022
• Voters put up to 10 candidates in order from their most to least preferred.
  — Fixing Our City Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2022
• After a plywood wall was put up to protect Portland City Hall, city officials were quick to change their minds and urged it to come down.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 11 June 2020
• FSAs allow workers to put up to that limit in an account that can be used to pay for medical expenses.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Pentagon says safeguards have been put up to make sure that US weapons are accounted for by Ukrainian forces after they've been transferred.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• The façade meant to welcome residents into the former high school was put up to cover up the hole that was left when the high school was cut in two, and the other half demolished to help make room for the library.
  — Scott Turner | , al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Cities can put up to 20 percent of their roadways into this category.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024
• In the eastern city of Goma, where Francis had been due to spend the day on July 4, thousands of posters with Francis’ image already had been put up to advertise the visit.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 10 June 2022
• Also, nearly 50 kilometers of fencing will be put up to ensure the rhinos remain in the sanctuary.
  — Rana Good, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• In Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the pandemic originated in late 2019, hundreds walked along the streets, some pulling down barriers that had been put up to enforce neighborhood lockdowns.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
• That’s the percentage of Montana voters that opposed getting rid of voter registration on Election Day when the issue was put up to a referendum on the ballot in 2014.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• But just out front, beyond the scaffolding and the fences put up to keep out protesters, the nation’s capital transformed into an all-day celebration, stretching into night, that no barrier could block.
  — Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• The group says a downtown loop could boost Waterfront Line ridership, stimulate economic development, and put up to 90% of Cleveland’s central business district within a 5-minute walk from a rail station.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2020
• There are hopes that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s proposal to put up to $18 million toward affordable housing will make a difference.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2022
• The barriers, primarily made from mesh fences or thin sheets of metal, were put up to block small streets and entrances to apartment complexes where coronavirus-positive cases were reported, according to Caixin, a Chinese business media outlet.
  — Cady Stanton, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024