How to Use shack up in a Sentence

shack up

verb

• Alex De Bard soothes in the role of an Amsterdam squatter with whom the Youth shacks up.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Female plains spadefoots can count on their ponds to be deep and homey, and will gladly shack up with males of their own ilk.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
• There, he’s enraged to discover that Miko is shacking up with a white guy who himself is obsessed with all things Asian.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Today, about 23 million young adults are shacking up with family—nearly 45% of the age group, per the U.S. Census.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, Philip’s mother Myra rants about the immorality of Liam’s mother having shacked up with their lodger.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• The idea of finding a relative stranger to shack up with was becoming ever more appealing.
  — Stefanie Groner, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2021
• One recent study even suggested that climate change may be pushing certain European toads to shack up with the wrong species.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
• The movie, about three young women shacking up in a rancid hovel in the French provinces, premiered in Locarno and screened at the Oldenburg film festival in 2010.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• The quieter moments, however, attracted Hall to shack up in The Night House, which explores topics of suicide, mental illness and grief.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• There are a variety of different spots to shack up — from Bushtec tents with furnished decks and outdoor showers to vintage trailers that deliberately don’t have Wi-Fi.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
• Here, lady albatrosses will shack up to co-parent, sometimes cohabitating for years at a time, researchers have found.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2020
• Would-be paranormal investigators shack up with the spirits in this new unscripted series.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• In retrospect, this is totally normal, since most of us decided to shack up with our family members during the global pandemic.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 17 July 2020
• Then too, the couple shared their experience via Instagram, including shacking up at a luxury hotel called Calilo.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• Getaway Eastern Catskills leans into the collective interest in downsizing and streamlining, inviting guests to do away with the superfluous extras by shacking up in tiny homes.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2023
• Some platonic parents are shacking up together—albeit minus the shared bed—while others live separately and coordinate child care, not unlike separated or divorced parents might, sans the bitterness.
  — Allison Hope, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024