How to Use stump up in a Sentence

stump up

verb

• Many of these passionate fans, who have spent years following their team, are now facing a dilemma – stump up the cash or watch from home and save their bank balance.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
• Chelsea even created an artificial deadline for City to stump up £120m for Enzo Fernandez.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
• Wall Street banks that had lent Situational Awareness gobs of money to magnify its bets issued the fund margin calls—non-negotiable demands to stump up more cash.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
• Ultimately, if countries aren’t willing to stump up more cash, then either farm or cohesion spending must shrink or Europe’s ambitions on defense, competitiveness and other priorities scaled back.
  — Lorne Cook, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
• Remaining cargoes, such as those from the United States, are also more likely to head for Asia than Europe, say analysts, because demand there is particularly strong and buyers are stumping up more.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026