How to Use turn up in a Sentence

turn up

verb
Definition of turn upnext
Synonyms for turn upnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • The parties all face the hurdle of coaxing voters to turn up at the ballot box.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Don’t be surprised if his name turns up on the injury report this week.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Those who did turned up for both in themed attire, wearing pink, black or both.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • About 40% of the magazine’s web traffic comes from Google searches, which turn up links that users click on.
    — Keach Hagey, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
  • So, go right ahead and turn up the Christmas classics as Dec. 25 draws nearer.
    — cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Patrons line up early to buy Masters gnomes, which quickly sell out and turn up on eBay for eight times the price.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • The Colonels had 16 turnovers of their own but were able to turn up their defensive intensity in the second half.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The jagged edges become crisp and crunchy while the interior stays tender, and garlic and chile turn up the heat.
    — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Joshua Jackson and Lupita Nyong’o are turning up the heat!
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But the displays also turned up last year on New York magazine’s list of tipoffs that a restaurant is bad.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Now two teams have turned up evidence of a magnetic field made by YZ Ceti b.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Cocaine is known to turn up around Florida shores and waters.
    — Kim Luciani, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • The findings have raised questions about the circumstances of the deaths and why so many sets of remains turned up in Lake Mead, a reservoir formed by Hoover Dam.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Russian soldiers turned up at her home close to midnight with an ominous message.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Ahn will certainly turn up the heat in the kitchen with his impressive resumé.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
  • It is believed that McDonnell went for a swim a couple of weeks ago at the next beach over from where the body turned up Friday; he has not been seen since.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023

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