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
Examples of scare up in a Sentence
I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them.
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Spirit Halloween is looking to scare up thousands of employees for its stores this upcoming season.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Some bottlenose dolphins have been observed carefully removing and using sponges to scare up prey on the seabed, a sophisticated behavior that only a small fraction of the population exhibits, said Mann, who has studied the dolphins in Australia’s Shark Bay.
—Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
The 10 Saw films have scared up over $1 billion dollars at the global box office.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
The deciding game in last year’s Final scared up 7.66 million viewers on ABC, a stampede that boosted the overall series average by 16%.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 June 2025
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Some bottlenose dolphins have been observed carefully removing and using sponges to scare up prey on the seabed, a sophisticated behavior that only a small fraction of the population exhibits, said Mann, who has studied the dolphins in Australia’s Shark Bay.
—Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
The 10 Saw films have scared up over $1 billion dollars at the global box office.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
The deciding game in last year’s Final scared up 7.66 million viewers on ABC, a stampede that boosted the overall series average by 16%.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for scare up
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“Scare up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20up. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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