draw up
verb
drew up; drawn up; drawing up; draws up
1
: to bring (a body of troops) into array
2
: to prepare a draft or version of
draw up plans
3
: to bring to a halt
4
: to straighten (oneself) to an erect posture especially as an assertion of dignity or resentment
: to come to a halt
the car drew up at the door
Examples of draw up in a Sentence
he drew up his horse outside the tavern
drew up the troops into a line along the ridge
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Everything was in the cloud, after all, needed only to be drawn up by a touch, her touch.
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Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
To help ride out surge, the conceptual plan drawn up for the developers by Miami planning and architecture firm DPZ CoDesign, known for its pedestrian-friendly New Urbanist approach, puts the first usable floor of the new buildings up in the air as well.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Maxwell’s appeal effort last year, finding that the deal drawn up in 2007 and approved the following year only protected Epstein and his coconspirators in South Florida.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 15 July 2025
Milwaukee holds a flag design competition — again and again
But the flag's rediscovery helped fuel the imagination of Alderman Fred P. Meyers, who drew up a resolution calling for the City Art Commission to get a civic flag in motion.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 9 July 2025
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Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
To help ride out surge, the conceptual plan drawn up for the developers by Miami planning and architecture firm DPZ CoDesign, known for its pedestrian-friendly New Urbanist approach, puts the first usable floor of the new buildings up in the air as well.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Maxwell’s appeal effort last year, finding that the deal drawn up in 2007 and approved the following year only protected Epstein and his coconspirators in South Florida.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 15 July 2025
Milwaukee holds a flag design competition — again and again
But the flag's rediscovery helped fuel the imagination of Alderman Fred P. Meyers, who drew up a resolution calling for the City Art Commission to get a civic flag in motion.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 9 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for draw up
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“Draw up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/draw%20up. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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