choose up
verb
chose up; chosen up; choosing up; chooses up
: to form (sides) especially for a game by having opposing captains choose their players
: to form sides for a game
Examples of choose up in a Sentence
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This solid gold nameplate necklace comes in two chain lengths and the option to choose up to 10 letters for a personalized piece of jewelry that will be cherished forever.
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Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
Byrd advises clients to choose up to four colors in the same color family and paint samples of 2 feet by 2 feet on all four elevations of the home.
—Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
New Yorkers will have to contend with ranked-choice voting for the first time: Instead of casting a single vote for a single candidate in most races, voters will be allowed to choose up to five, ranking them in order of preference.
—New York Times, 25 May 2021
In Missouri, as the condemned, Johnson is allowed to choose up to five witnesses, but state law barred his daughter from being one of them because of her age.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 27 Nov. 2022
Voters are asked to choose up to five people in the race.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
Having the option to choose up to 16GB of RAM should also aid performance, though the base model includes a resectable 6GB.
—Dave Leclair, PCMAG, 28 July 2022
Instead of having the captains choose up sides on national TV, why not do it on the court, playground style, just before tipoff?.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022
This happens, in part, because those news organizations that haven’t chosen up sides — those that want to serve all Americans — fear being charged with bias.
—Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2020
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Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
Byrd advises clients to choose up to four colors in the same color family and paint samples of 2 feet by 2 feet on all four elevations of the home.
—Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
New Yorkers will have to contend with ranked-choice voting for the first time: Instead of casting a single vote for a single candidate in most races, voters will be allowed to choose up to five, ranking them in order of preference.
—New York Times, 25 May 2021
In Missouri, as the condemned, Johnson is allowed to choose up to five witnesses, but state law barred his daughter from being one of them because of her age.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 27 Nov. 2022
Voters are asked to choose up to five people in the race.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
Having the option to choose up to 16GB of RAM should also aid performance, though the base model includes a resectable 6GB.
—Dave Leclair, PCMAG, 28 July 2022
Instead of having the captains choose up sides on national TV, why not do it on the court, playground style, just before tipoff?.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022
This happens, in part, because those news organizations that haven’t chosen up sides — those that want to serve all Americans — fear being charged with bias.
—Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2020
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First Known Use
1850, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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“Choose up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/choose%20up. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
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