How to Use turn up in a Sentence

turn up

verb

• The bank had grown to 4 feet deep, so the earth mover had turned up 4 feet of soil and roots.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
• Its head and tail turned up in a second bag the next day.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• Guy Fieri is turning up the heat in the final days of 2023!
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• Everything is now over-the-top, heated to a crisp, turned up to the max.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• His little jaw has dropped; the corners of his mouth are turned up.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
• The experts were able to verify the photo, and a search of the area turned up wolverine tracks in the area.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
• The first sign of the family tragedy turned up around 4:30 a.m. Monday.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Check out our list of the best movies about summer, and get ready to turn up the heat this season!
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 20 Mar. 2023
• Bill Belichick’s defense is going to take away the run and turn up the heat on Justin Fields.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The parties all face the hurdle of coaxing voters to turn up at the ballot box.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• But the body is only the latest of several guests to turn up dead.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
• This is because the fearsome images might not turn up again in their dreams.
  — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2023
• If the goal is to go deeper into the postseason, Dave Roberts needs to turn up the heat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• While many fans have tuned out, some have turned up the intensity over the years to keep the team in Oakland.
  — Ty Daubert, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
• Martinez said pretext stops can turn up guns and drugs and help keep the public safe.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• Rangers have from the Grand Canyon, marking the third person to turn up dead at the national park in just a week’s time.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Don’t be surprised if his name turns up on the injury report this week.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• If Speed doesn't play the quarterback, Lawrence could turn up field and convert.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2022
• Those who did turned up for both in themed attire, wearing pink, black or both.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Gray never turned up, but Jane didn’t mind being on her own.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• This behavior explains how so many trap-jaw heads turn up in their nests in the wild.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• Two of the other flavors promise to turn up the heat with the red and green variations of the Hot Ones Los Calientes hot sauce.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
• That search and subsequent searches at the park turned up nothing.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 July 2023
• The #restaurantreview tag boasts more than 1.3 billion views, and turns up an endless scroll of videos.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2023
• Five years ago, a pirate of Alicia de Larrocha, the pianist, turned up on YouTube.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
• But all that buildup landed with a thud Monday, when the big reveal turned up nothing but mud.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• As similar fossils turned up, Mosasaurus turned out to be just the first genus of a whole group of marine reptiles—the mosasaurs.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Soon, two researchers turn up to document the customs of the islanders.
  — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• Why not just turn up the thermostat a few degrees myself?
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
• Plus, plenty of vitamin C turns up the notch on radiance.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024