How to Use shoot up in a Sentence

shoot up

verb

• Basha could shoot up to the top two in the Open with a win.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
• But later in the month, the price shoots up to $879 one-way.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• And that’s even has home prices have shot up over 70% in that span.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 May 2024
• Over the past few years, rents and home prices in Jacksonville have shot up.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
• What’s less fun is shooting up to five episodes at once as the 9-1-1 team races the clock.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• But the trend doesn’t seem to be holding for 2023, and attacks have shot up again.
  — WIRED, 12 July 2023
• The mixtape shoots up the Billboard 200 after vinyl copies of the set were shipped.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• If so, their odds of getting the job offer will shoot up.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
• Stock prices shoot up and down like a roller coaster ride, and who knows when the whole thing might crash?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
• When the song ended, one of the band members shot up his hand in what looked kind of like a Hitler salute.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• Beamer has a chance to shoot up these rankings in the coming years.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2022
• The mussels then shoot up thousands of larvae into the gills of the eels.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
• In that case, the put options fail to pay off, even as your groceries bills shoot up.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• The goons shoot up the liver, but Knight's able to attack them using the knife Palmer just slipped her.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 17 May 2022
• Cocoa futures in New York have shot up more than two-thirds over the past year.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• But then the market started to freeze in 2023 as mortgage rates shot up.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• In the building next door, addicts shot up in a stairwell.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Is the state worried someone is going to shoot up the moon?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Meanwhile, tickets to the flagship parks have shot up in price.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• There was a guy who’d been shot up [and was] walking across the bridge towards us in downtown L.A..
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 31 Aug. 2023
• After someone walked in with a gun and threatened to shoot up the store, Mr. Rabee called 911.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• Hands shoot up across the rows in the chilly room at Sony Pictures Studios: How many people apply for the show?
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• The moment the back window shattered, Huda heard a whoosh of oxygen and saw the flames around the bus shoot up into the air.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The company’s stock shot up more than 10 percent that day.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Under the full-spectrum LED grow light, baby greens shoot up fast, from seed to plate in 7-12 days.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Netflix saw profits shoot up in the UK last year while its tax bill doubled.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
• After the deal was announced, the stock shot up 31% but those gains quickly leveled off.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• And yet a kid who just turned 18 could buy two at a Texas store and shoot up a school, killing at least 19 students and two adults Tuesday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Calls from fire victims to a mental health hotline shot up this spring.
  — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
• Waiting lists have shot up since the pandemic, when many procedures were cancelled.
  — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024