How to Use get-up-and-go in a Sentence

get-up-and-go

noun

• The longer the dormancy, the more get-up-and-go the gas pedal has.
  — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
• Approaching life with positive expectations, a get-up-and-go attitude, and eagerness is related to many good things in life.
  — Joan M. Cook, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
• In 2021, Charles, admiring Marchetti’s get-up-and-go, invited him to chair his fashion task force.
  — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• Thus the coffee gods created a world of more discerning (some might say finicky) coffee connoisseurs, one where people now pay $5, $6 and more for a cup of liquid get-up-and-go.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• This combination is plenty of power and get-up-and-go for most consumers, a combination that has greatly expanded its consumer demographic.
  — Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026