How to Use sum up in a Sentence

sum up

verb

• So, to sum up: Of the top 11 teams in the rankings, five come from the SEC.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• This whole process is summed up by the title of the EP, Kismet.
  — Scott Huver, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• So to sum up, the Dodgers’ trade deadline deals were sort of ...
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• This picture sums up this man’s life over the last decade.
  — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2024
• How to sum up the year 2020 for New Orleans restaurants and bars?
  — Beth D'addono, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• For her, that motto continues to sum up the ethos of the event.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• That about sums up South’s play at today’s four spades.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• After Sunday’s game, Harbaugh tried to find the words to sum up the loss.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• As a kid, that pretty much summed up back-to-school season for me.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• Twenty cities is far too few to sum up all the world’s beauty.
  — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2024
• All that makes trying to sum up the lessons of the recall a tall order.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• Intriguing — that might be the best way to sum up Alexander.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
• That seems to sum up the weird black magic of this musical.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2021
• That's the best word to sum up my October home favorites.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
• Tough is the right adjective to sum up Duke and UNC's seasons.
  — David Thompson, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
• To sum up the point here, Oregon picked off Rising twice and got nothing out of it.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
• In addition to the photos, Morris is featured in the video that summed up the night.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
• In the first paragraph, attempt to sum up the person’s life in a way that tells a story.
  — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• So sum up your theory, and tell us a bit more about what that could mean for the market?
  — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2021
• Miller likes the ring of that better, although all those words seem to sum up his mound presence.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2021
• Her tweets sum up how a lot of people have felt for much of the year —that a recession is inevitable.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
• Extreme is a good way to sum up DeChambeau's approach to golf.
  — Paul Newberry, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• Easy on the eye, with technical chops to match: this warm, winter-ready vest sums up all the key hallmarks of The North Face.
  — Laura Holt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
• What's the first thing that pops into your head to sum up your six seasons on Better Call Saul?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2022
• Which pretty much sums up the challenge for all stores.
  — Nikki Baird, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• This story to me has always summed up the power of white supremacy: Choose a life of bondage or refuse and limp.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• There was no way to sum up what went wrong in the kind of quotable quip for which so many senators seemed to be fishing.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
• And there's no better word to sum up the unbelievable year that was 2020.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
• And coming out of the South, being chased by the Klan, being chased by the mob, the government and the Nazis, that sums up the landscape in which this story takes place.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2024
• That statement summed up Stokes’s approach to the whole amphitheatre value of sport.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024