How to Use up against it in a Sentence

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• The dean of the Harvard Law School stood up against it.
  — Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
• The airport butts up against it, and there are railroad tracks a stone’s throw away.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2022
• To rise up against it would likely mean an armed struggle.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• But even with his come-from-far-behind style, Rombauer appeared to be up against it for much of the 1 ⅛-mile race.
  — Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2021
• Woods Richardson and the Twins were up against it Wednesday facing the red-hot Padres, winners in 22 of their last 28.
  — Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
• Unopened mail addressed to 3AC had been pushed under the door or propped up against it, according to Teneo's account.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 July 2022
• Entrepreneurs today do seem to be wiser to the symptoms of overwork and are more likely to make time for rest and exercise, even when up against it.
  — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Now, sometimes being up against it actually can help the peace.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
• The Timberwolves are up against it and facing elimination ahead of game 6.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022
• The Diamondbacks are indeed up against it in a division that includes the Dodgers, Padres and Giants.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• For Sorko-Ram, who will graduate in the spring, the biggest incentive for standing up against it is her little sister.
  — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Russia's opposition deepened when most of the world lined up against it at the United Nations to demand it withdraw from Ukraine.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2022
• Right guard James Daniels was out for two weeks with a quad injury, meaning one area of the offense most in need of getting some continuity together is going to be up against it.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• Rubio and other Senate Republicans will line up against it and go all Joe Hill explaining why.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• Pendley, who has since pleaded guilty, hoped a government overreaction to such an attack would cause Americans to rise up against it.
  — Mark Pitcavage, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2022
• To put things bluntly, the Tigers are up against it, but there is still a path towards a tournament berth.
  — Joseph Pastilha, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2026
• His daughter drove a snowmobile behind the sled, and often rammed up against it, pushing and steering from behind.
  — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
• Stack firewood away from the house, not up against it.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
• The characters are up against it.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
• To survive this season, Burnley are massively up against it again.
  — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025