Examples of size up in a Sentence
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Although Hillsboro is not expected to draw nearly as many visitors as Hopkinsville, The Great American Eclipse, a website that sizes up the draw of the eclipse to towns on the path of totality, estimates that 15,000 to 60,000 people will travel to Hillsboro for the event.
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Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2024
Amid a circus of tableside preparations—servers theatrically shaking Martinis and flambéing cherries—diners sized up one another, eyes darting around the room suspiciously.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Like a private eye sizing up the details of a dicey new case, Joe Ide took the call from the Raymond Chandler Estate with a healthy amount of hesitation.
—Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
That means that colleges are sizing up how to analyze applicants’ FAFSA data and calculate aid offers—a process that normally takes around five months—in a matter of weeks.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
Rifle-grasping guards squint at each passerby, sizing up potential assailants.
—Jody García Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2024
With Brodin skating to the end boards to retrieve a puck, Kane, trailing, sized up the defenseman and shouldered the veteran blue liner into boards, embellishing the hit with an elbow to the neck that snapped Brodin’s head.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 1 Jan. 2024
Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2024
Amid a circus of tableside preparations—servers theatrically shaking Martinis and flambéing cherries—diners sized up one another, eyes darting around the room suspiciously.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Like a private eye sizing up the details of a dicey new case, Joe Ide took the call from the Raymond Chandler Estate with a healthy amount of hesitation.
—Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
That means that colleges are sizing up how to analyze applicants’ FAFSA data and calculate aid offers—a process that normally takes around five months—in a matter of weeks.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
Rifle-grasping guards squint at each passerby, sizing up potential assailants.
—Jody García Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2024
With Brodin skating to the end boards to retrieve a puck, Kane, trailing, sized up the defenseman and shouldered the veteran blue liner into boards, embellishing the hit with an elbow to the neck that snapped Brodin’s head.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 1 Jan. 2024
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“Size up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/size%20up. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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