scare up
verb
scared up; scaring up; scares up
: to find or get together with considerable labor or difficulty : scrape up
managed to scare up the money
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Examples of scare up in a Sentence
I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them.
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The deciding frame scared up a staggering 50.6 million viewers on Oct. 17, 1978; per Nielsen, 56% of all U.S. TVs that were in use during the ’78 Series set were tuned in to NBC, with share topping out at 65% for Game 4.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Sep. 2024
Sony is hoping to scare up some pre-Valentine’s Day moviegoing with Heart Eyes, which the studio has picked up for a Feb. 7, 2025 release date.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
From those humble beginnings, Mahomes and Burrow would go on to put up monster numbers in consecutive conference title tilts, drawing 47.85 million viewers with the Bengals’ win in 2022 before scaring up another 53.12 million fans in KC’s revenge game the following year.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Sep. 2024
These seem like weak-sauce monsters, unlikely to scare up new votes.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Sep. 2024
Sony is hoping to scare up some pre-Valentine’s Day moviegoing with Heart Eyes, which the studio has picked up for a Feb. 7, 2025 release date.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
From those humble beginnings, Mahomes and Burrow would go on to put up monster numbers in consecutive conference title tilts, drawing 47.85 million viewers with the Bengals’ win in 2022 before scaring up another 53.12 million fans in KC’s revenge game the following year.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Sep. 2024
These seem like weak-sauce monsters, unlikely to scare up new votes.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Scare up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20up. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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