saw up

phrasal verb

sawed up; sawed up or sawn up; sawing up; saws up

: to cut (something) into pieces with a saw

He sawed up the boards into foot-long pieces.

Examples of saw up in a Sentence

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Some areas in the region saw up to 8 inches of rain while Los Angeles saw 4 inches, surpassing the most rain the city saw in one day in more than 20 years. —Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024

Regions just now of Grand Rapids, Michigan, saw up to 11 inches of snowfall, while Muskegon, Michigan, about 40 miles northeast near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, saw 8.8 inches of snow -- the most on record. —Max Golembo, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023

Some areas saw up to a foot (30 centimeters) of snow on Monday, including Kansas, eastern Nebraska and South Dakota, western Iowa, and southwestern Minnesota. —Kathy McCormack, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024

Some areas saw up to a foot of snow on Monday, including Kansas, eastern Nebraska and South Dakota, western Iowa, and southwestern Minnesota. —CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024

Some pockets of the metro area saw up to 3 inches of rain, said National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Kluber. —Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023

As vice president, Biden saw up close how domestic politics can complicate foreign policy during the 2013 government shutdown. —Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 17 May 2023

Over nearly two decades at Walt Disney Co., Ben Sherwood saw up close how the company dominated the market for youth entertainment. —Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2021