How to Use live up to in a Sentence

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• A lot of times when there’s a bunch of hype, the place doesn’t live up to it.
  — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026
• The food certainly lives up to the hype and the vibe is buzzy.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
• The problem comes when only the salary lives up to the billing.
  — Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
• There ain’t a man in this world could ever live up to my husband.
  — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
• But would the food live up to the hype, or would my taste buds be left doing donuts?
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2026
• Now, all that’s left to see is if the new serum lives up to the original.
  — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 17 Aug. 2026
• But stones and steels have their differences and not all of them live up to the hype.
  — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Aug. 2026
• Pie-in-the-sky fantasies rarely live up to the challenges of the day-to-day world.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 July 2026
• Some Ford names come with a fair amount of reputation to live up to.
  — New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026
• Many players are hyped, and a few actually live up to the hype.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
• Trump has publicly called out the world body for not living up to its potential.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2026
• So, can the unit live up to the elite standard set by specialists in recent years?
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
• By the end of his second season, Arnold hadn’t yet lived up to his first-round status.
  — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 June 2026
• Shooting has been at the core of his failure to live up to expectations.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026
• Ever since, the e-commerce giant has struggled to live up to that promise.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
• He’s been dealing with injury issues and has not exactly lived up to the pre-draft hype.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 29 June 2026
• Carpathian Mountain cake, is a grand Polish cake that lives up to its name.
  — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Aug. 2026
• But there’s also tragedy, not least in the nation’s failure to live up to its exalted ideals.
  — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
• Linn’s, decorated with vintage bikes mounted along its high walls, lived up to the hype.
  — David G. Allan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
• Yet none of this mattered, as the show failed to live up to the lofty expectations of Trekkies.
  — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026
• Alex Bregman, who hit two home runs against the Mariners, is living up to his big contract.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
• That can be doubly true if El Niño lives up to its rainy reputation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
• The claims are certainly big, but fans guarantee that this shampoo lives up to all of its promises.
  — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 26 June 2026
• That’s a big part of why so many turn into expensive black boxes that never live up to their promise.
  — Wayne Hamilton, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
• The goal decided a war of attrition after both teams had failed to live up to the hype of the massive match.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
• Sullivan, over the past month-plus, has been living up to years of inordinate hype.
  — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
• And, yes, Willis, at this very early point in the process, is living up to expectations.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2026
• Rosario, meanwhile, can’t be trusted in the field and hasn’t lived up to his reputation as a lefty killer this season.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
• Imagine the same level of hype and an attempt by Manning to live up to it two years earlier.
  — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
• After giving the bottle a good shake, the foaming formula lives up to its promise.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026