How to Use ring up in a Sentence

ring up

verb
  • Products ring up for less than $18, with most priced at less than $10.
    Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2022
  • Judges can ring up it to three times to save a contestant within the first three rounds.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Diekman rung up Drew Millas to end the game and earn his second save of the season.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
  • With 2 outs and runners on 1st and 2nd in the bottom of the 7th, Carlson rung up Gleyber Torres on a pitch out of the strike zone.
    Maury Brown, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The Giants have been rung up on fastballs 53 times, the eighth-most in the majors, and are watching even more go by early in their at-bats.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • Things are bad enough — combustible enough — and that’s before Gary and Jack ring up Ray and Michael and tell them that two of their rams have appeared on their side of the hill, dead.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The customer wanted to leave but the employee refused to ring up her purchase and was said to have threatened her.
    cleveland, 21 May 2021
  • Instant replay showed that Diaz clearly broke the plane and should have been rung up as Kelly’s ninth strikeout of the night.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
  • Nunes was working at the register at the time, prosecutors said, and rang up the $12 order.
    Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • Nunes rang up the sale, which also included a bag of barbeque chips, spending a total of $12, the statement said.
    Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • Even though Baltimore held the Texans to a single touchdown last year, Harbaugh knows the Texans can ring up points through the air.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The tour won rave reviews and rang up more than $575 million in ticket sales, according to Billboard.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Wendy’s, which relies on teens to salt fries and ring up orders, added a way for applicants to apply for a job through their smartphones.
    Paul Wiseman and Joseph Pisani, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2021
  • Its stores and restaurants typically ring up more than $1 billion a year in sales.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • McDowell connected with Nick Marsh for a 60-yard scoring pass on the Panthers’ third play after the break, to ring up a 28-point lead.
    Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Even if open ice is harder to come by in the playoffs, a six-game drought is substantial for a guy who rang up 46 goals in the regular season.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Quist, owner of The People’s Goods, is teaching her great-niece Montana how to ring up customers on the cash register.
    Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Prices are almost as sweet as the collection itself: Products start as low as $10, and most ring up at under $15.
    Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Jack rings up Babe once more, hoping to convince her to grant him absolution.
    Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Some blockbuster names like Adele and Beyoncé still ring up big sales, but even their numbers have eased in the streaming age.
    Neil Shah, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Plus, the cost of a large tree itself usually rings up at a higher price tag than a smaller counterpart.
    Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Most tacos ring up at about $5, but sizes are larger compared to traditional soft tacos.
    Chron Staff, Chron, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Many of the steam cleaners that ring up for a lower cost than this one are only handheld and may not work for as many different types of surfaces.
    Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
  • Later, Margaret and Janie suffer as a teen boy at the drugstore rings up their sanitary pads with the languor of a James Bond villain.
    Amy Nicholson, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And yet New Orleans allowed Minnesota to ring up 63 points at halftime.
    Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Shoppers can also use a touchscreen to ring up merchandise, such as produce, that lacks bar codes.
    Matt Day, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Air power is extremely expensive, and even older F-16s could ring up a tab in the billions.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • This three-pack of hoodies from White Peak Trading Company, however, only ring up at $38 — that comes out to less than $13 for each one.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Rihanna had a cheeky response when a paparazzi photographer brought the ring up and asked if she was engaged.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 6 May 2022
  • Miuccia Prada, for her part, rang up two entries: for Miu Miu, down a couple of spots, and Prada, up a notch and coming in at number two.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024

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