Examples of worked up in a Sentence
What is she so worked up about?
He got all worked up over the football game.
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Chicago — its fans, its organization and yes, its writers — has clung to that era as tightly as Toews and Kane clung to the Stanley Cup in that famous photo, because there’s been so little else to get worked up about.
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Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Doing this yelp as a human may work when training certain dogs, but the AKC advises that with some puppies, this could actually get the puppy more worked up and likely to bite.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Model Creator is a modeling format worked up in association with agency Ford Models.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
He's even worked up a bit of a script.
—Gabriel J. Sánchez, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
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Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Doing this yelp as a human may work when training certain dogs, but the AKC advises that with some puppies, this could actually get the puppy more worked up and likely to bite.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Model Creator is a modeling format worked up in association with agency Ford Models.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
He's even worked up a bit of a script.
—Gabriel J. Sánchez, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Worked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worked%20up. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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