How to Use run-up in a Sentence

run-up

1 of 2 noun

• The recent run-up in rental rates looks to be in the rear-view mirror.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• The massive run-up in the shares has made the stock expensive.
  — Aya Wagatsuma, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
• Yet that’s still a slowdown from a sharp run-up the past couple of years.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
• The theory is the lack of run-up should make kick returns safer.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• The exact cause of the latest run-up in Treasury rates is hard to pinpoint.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle have dealt with nagging injuries in the World Cup run-up.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 July 2023
• In the clip, Travis, 34, is on a golf course getting ready to haul off on a tee shot in run-up Happy fashion.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2024
• This is all part of a run-up to the launch of The Final Shape, which Destiny makes no bones about promoting here.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• The historic price run-up just ahead of the chocolate industry’s biggest day of the year has been months in the making.
  — Maya Huter, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
• Apple had gained 46% this year through Tuesday’s close, part of a broader run-up in tech stocks.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
• The topsy-turvy response owes in part to a run-up in stock prices that preceded the rate cut, experts said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024
• There will be no long run-up to the season with hours spent preparing her mind and body to compete for 30-plus games.
  — Chantel Jennings, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• The swift run-up in long-term Treasury yields—to around 5% from 4% in early August—suggests Wall Street now agrees.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• Some analysts are warning that its run-up has been too speedy.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
• The big run-up in gold still has plenty of headroom left, according to Goldman Sachs.
  — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
• After a busy run-up to NHL trade deadline day, Friday was not so eventful.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• Many in this age group have had a run-up in their home equity, so have more leverage when buying a home, Lautz said.
  — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
• That’s one of the reasons for this week’s price run-up in silver and silver stocks – now playing catch-up with the yellow metal.
  — John Navin, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
• Meanwhile, investors are still coming to terms with the rapid run-up in rates, which sparked a huge sell-off in US government bonds and stocks last year.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 3 May 2023
• Both had seen run-ups after the conflict between Iran and Israel began.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 23 June 2025
• Despite the Trump win and the massive valuation run-up for comp Palantir.
  — Dan Primack, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
• The West, where homes are the most expensive in the country and where some of the biggest price run-ups occured during the past few years, is seeing some of the biggest price declines.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• That, along with supply chain troubles, helped fuel the inflation run-up.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
• Food eaten at home was just 1.1% pricier last month than the same time last year, compared with the 2.6% average run-up in consumer prices overall.
  — Jing Feng, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2024
• The first is the 40% June to September run-up in jet fuel, a line item that even before the jump accounted for around one-fourth of operating costs.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Likewise, a sharp run-up in food and fuel prices tied to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sharply sped up inflation but has now pulled back.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• The reason, Hepp said, is partly due to softness in the Austin real estate market, which saw a huge run-up in prices during the pandemic.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
• But some political strategists and economists say the rapid run-up in prices since the pandemic could change that.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Shares in some of those firms have more than doubled this year, including a big run-up this month after the central bank signaled it is done lifting rates.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
• This year’s run-up to the conference finals has been markedly different.
  — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 20 May 2025

run up

2 of 2 verb

• And why not run up and down the beach in these bad boys?
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Apr. 2024
• The crowd screamed and ran up to hand the queens dollar bills.
  — Casey Parks, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• Harbaugh has run up the score on some teams in the past.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 27 Dec. 2021
• Trump didn’t just run up the score in a number of blue states.
  — Julia Mueller, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
• The 10-year yield has run up rapidly and is due for a breather.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• The bears can climb trees, swim and run up and downhill up to 40 mph.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• The bears can climb trees, swim, and run up and downhill up to 40 mph.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• From there, the Lancers put their foot on the petal and continue to run up the score.
  — Antonio Chaurand, Baltimore Sun, 16 Nov. 2024
• Once lit, the flame can run up to eight hours on high or up to 16 hours on low.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 9 Apr. 2024
• My man Pretty Chi would run up and down and bring down the news.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 18 July 2022
• The rest of the field of cross country runners started to run up the hill.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• That doesn’t mean the Tigers will solely run up the gut, as Bobo was sure to point out.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 20 Aug. 2021
• The route is set to run up Broadway, through what’s known as the Canyon of Heroes.
  — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• Carothers' 48-yard run up the middle set up the second.
  — Brett Martel, baltimoresun.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• Black bears are strong swimmers and tree climbers and can run up to 35 mph.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
• Jim also drew on global events, such as the end of the Cold War and the run up to the first Gulf War.
  — Kevin Necessary, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
• Ellis scored the opening points of the game with a 9-yard TD run up the middle.
  — Ronnie Holman, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
• The thing about racking up mountains of debt is that the ones who run up the tab are rarely the ones who pay the bill.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2020
• But that push is running up against the First Amendment.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
• The $30 million will fund phase one of the hub, expected to run up to 36 months.
  — Anthony Hennen | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
• But these two teams do not just run up and down the floor, jacking up a lot of deep shots.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 19 May 2025
• But the dog runs up, circling me again, & back to its owner.
  — Yusef Komunyakaa, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• Cal ran up 58 in that win over the Mean Green before finding the end zone just once against the Tigers.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2023
• Close to Me: Jockey likes to run up front; this one won’t be on lead but close to front.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2021
• Bridges didn't just run up and down the court in those 44 minutes, either.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
• The mighty beast runs up a ramp barely visible in the night.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 18 June 2025
• Smith slipped a tackle and then ran up the right sideline in front of the Rams bench to midfield.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
• Look for the Colts to stiffen up for much of this game and disallow Rodgers to run up the score.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2020
• The video then shows officers running up the stairs and take the banner from them.
  — Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
• Fire likely to make short duration runs up towards Man Eaten Lake and indirect handline on the ridge to the south.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2025