How to Use tee up in a Sentence

tee up

phrasal verb

• His move tees up a legal battle with the school district.
  — Yacob Reyes, Axios, 18 July 2024
• The next photos showed the pair teeing up at a nearby golf course overlooking a lake.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
• Case in point: the jokes that Tomlinson reads to tee up each segment, which tend to feel obligatory.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
• The track seems to be the taste of some of the music the Canadian Grammy winner has been teeing up for the last several months.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
• Now Congress is teed up for a bitter funding fight that could make last year’s debate look quaint.
  — Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• The action tees up approval of a rare mega development, in the works for more than two years, in the heart of San Diego’s research cluster.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
• This tees up a contentious Season 4 that will, in all likelihood, put Smart back into the awards race next year as well.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Sep. 2024
• That decision tees up Trump to cap the night with closing arguments.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 24 June 2024
• But the segment also sets up the whole show, framing the state of play, but also teeing up what Welker will ask the guests, both the newsmakers and the panelists.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
• Sales must tee up marketing with feedback and insights.
  — Alison Murdock, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Even before the ruling comes down, however, the suit is teeing up other, similar cases both here and around the world.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 June 2023
• While Ohio has lurched to the right in recent years, it's still considered a competitive state, and DeWine's appointment could tee up a major push by Democrats to flip the seat in 2026.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 July 2024
• Opting not to tee up his ball, the world No. 5 sent clumps of turf flying before wincing in anguish as his ball splashed into the water well short of the iconic island green.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
• Sure enough, Palmer’s 73rd-minute equalizer was teed up by a smart touch from Bellingham following a weaving run from Saka.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• This tees up the biggest step yet on the federal level to move forward with a law in the area of children’s online safety legislation.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 23 July 2024
• Get ready to tee up your favorite reruns for the coming days, weeks and possibly months as all parties seek a resolution.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• That picture left policymakers with enough confidence to tee up a string of rate cuts — the first since the pandemic’s early days.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set the procedural wheels in motion to tee up votes on a package of three spending bills on the floor as soon as next week.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Advertisement The action, which does not constitute project approval, tees up a process that should see a full-fledged lease agreement return to the board for approval in the second half of 2024.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
• Nevada’s primaries will also tee up a slew of competitive House races.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• That would tee up tomorrow’s matchups as a battle for just one spot, and if Atlanta loses the first game of the doubleheader, the second would become winner-takes-all.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• Once customers press a button, out rolls a golf ball that tees up automatically.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2024
• Boeing’s Washington state workers are teeing up a strike.
  — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 18 July 2024
• Joe Biden launches his re-election bid, teeing up a potential 2024 rematch with Donald Trump.
  — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2023
• Still, the move would tee up a spending clash early in the next administration that could prove difficult for either candidate.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2024
• He was teed up to succeed Graham’s worldwide fame, but instead started his own mentorship ministry.
  — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 29 Feb. 2024
• That would tee up another debt ceiling fight for early next year, just months before the November election when control of the White House and Congress will be decided.
  — Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Also jumping on board is Paul Rudd, who was briefly introduced at the end of the second season as an actor who suddenly dies on stage, teeing up this season's mystery.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 28 July 2023
• Policymakers are expected to once again hold short-term interest rates steady at this meeting — and to tee up cuts for September.
  — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 31 July 2024
• If the first son's lawyers sought to challenge this same statute in Delaware federal court, the losing party would appeal to the 3rd Circuit, teeing up the possibility for a circuit split and a chance for the Supreme Court to consider the matter.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024