How to Use live up to in a Sentence

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• 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
• Pie-in-the-sky fantasies rarely live up to the challenges of the day-to-day world.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 July 2026
• Many players are hyped, and a few actually live up to the hype.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 24 July 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
• 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
• The claims are certainly big, but fans guarantee that this shampoo lives up to all of its promises.
  — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 26 June 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
• Rutschman was once considered one of the top prospects in baseball himself, and mostly lived up to the hype over his first few years in the big leagues.
  — Ian Miller, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• New York — For the first time in a while, Burger King is living up to its name.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
• But Whitney Leavitt is the breakout among the cast who is truly living up to that goal.
  — Emma Barker Bonomo, Time, 14 July 2026
• Cech was concerned about living up to the legacy of such a nuanced character, which led to her putting her best foot forward.
  — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
• On offense at least, Bregman hasn’t lived up to expectations.
  — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 1 July 2026
• The products are chic, effective, and live up to their promises, and count Demi Moore as a fan.
  — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 2 July 2026
• Our job has been making sure everything else lives up to that, from how people get there to what happens between performances.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
• But just because a book is an obvious choice for adaptation, doesn’t mean that the show will live up to its source material.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
• The bull lived up to his reputation, bucking Dias off before trampling him in the dirt in five seconds.
  — Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
• Predicting the weather is always tricky, with even the most solid forecasts sometimes not living up to the hype.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
• Part of that hesitation was certainly the pressure of living up to his father’s name.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 16 July 2026
• As for comparisons between the two, Emma has a balanced take on the pressure to live up to her aunt’s success.
  — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 29 July 2026
• Lewandowski, then, faces some immediate pressure to perform and live up to that standard, if not surpass it.
  — Tom Bogert, New York Times, 27 July 2026
• She’s worked hard to live up to the Holmes name, creating her own detective agency in London.
  — ABC News, 1 July 2026
• In the wild, Sumatran orangutans typically live up to 30 years.
  — Reeti Malhotra july 1, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
• The rest of the book became about Nina living up to the mandate of having survived that initial horror.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
• The 2026 World Cup opened its knockout stage in style, and made the beautiful game live up to its billing.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
• The AirPods Pro 3 are one of those rare travel gadgets that live up to the hype, and Oprah would agree.
  — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026
• Unfortunately, the former Clemson standout has yet to live up to his high draft status.
  — Miami Herald, 27 July 2026
• Someone could walk into your life unexpectedly, challenging you to grow and live up to your fullest potential.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026