How to Use workup in a Sentence

workup

1 of 2 noun

• Hiller flew out to Santa Rosa to get a detailed workup on the left tackle.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2020
• On his heart care: Knight: The workup of his cardiac is ongoing.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
• How many of the 20% of breast cancers are going to be in that one of five women who elect to not get the further workup?
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 17 Apr. 2023
• After a medical workup, the dogs are placed in foster homes.
  — Meg Dunn, CNN, 28 July 2022
• To see if early heart disease may be a factor in your ED, Bankstein suggests a full workup at the doctor.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• At this point, however, the Trump campaign hasn’t yet shared whether a full workup was done at the time or if there has been any follow-up since.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 18 July 2024
• Doctors in starched white coats walk the hallways at a clip, darting to and from consultations and workups with clients.
  — Jessica Chia, Allure, 25 Dec. 2019
• After a 20-minute workup, the buck was injected with a reversal drug.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2020
• The severity of the initial illness helps determine what the cardiac workup will be.
  — Giana Han, al, 10 Nov. 2020
• The nightmares awoke her from sleep with acute chest pain, necessitating a cardiac workup.
  — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
• People with these kinds of symptoms, Waxman said, need to come in for an immediate workup, even if most will not turn out to be heart attacks.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Eight hours later, he was carried out of the building on a blanket, finally breaking free of its walls, to get a full medical workup.
  — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
• Any athlete testing positive must go through a full cardiac workup before they are cleared.
  — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
• An annual blood workup might signal that your routine is too focused on one domain.
  — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• But most of the time people will get better on their own, without intervention or extensive workup.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• Further workup revealed the issue: Aliyah had new-onset diabetes.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
• The hospital started doing a full NAT workup, which is for non-accidental trauma.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
• Over three to four hours, these people went through an exhaustive medical workup by a variety of specialists.
  — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 30 June 2021
• Since there can be many causes, Patel recommends visiting an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialist for a thorough workup.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2024
• The rest of the infectious disease workup, including testing for malaria, was negative.
  — Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2020
• As part of the standard child abuse workup, Petska ordered a slew of additional tests, including full body X-rays and labs to screen for bleeding disorders that could lead to easy bruising.
  — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2020
• Don did all the psychological workup for gender reassignment during that time, working out of our house.
  — Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
• And in contrast to competing medical workups that pitch whole genome sequencing, Q Bio decided to analyze a panel of just 147 genes.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 20 Feb. 2020
• This slow-going approach wasn’t my preference, but my original plan—to admit him to the hospital and pursue an aggressive workup—had been vetoed by the patient.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2010
• While these kinds of examples are dramatic, the reality is that most kids don’t need an extremely-rapid genetic workup.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Some health-care professionals worry that mindfulness is being pushed as a way of dealing with chronic pain in lieu of medical workups to find the underlying cause.
  — Michelle Cortez | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• Each dog is given a physical workup including blood work to ensure there are no underlying health issues.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2022
• Colleagues then took the kittens a short distance away and did a workup — which involves a physical exam, where body measurements are recorded, and attaching an ear tag — before the mother returned.
  — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• The remarks that follow are a glimpse at a negotiator’s ongoing notebook, not an authoritative workup on the topic.
  — Jack Nasher, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Instead, the process could result in a lot of worry for asymptomatic patients and force the patient and doctor to undergo more workups without yielding anything significant.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023

work up

2 of 2 verb

• Start at the sternum and work up near the base of the neck.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
• This works up to a light shade of about caramel blonde.
  — Anna Bader, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2024
• Start at the bottom, in the center, and work up and out.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• The plan was to work up to the big one, the Bay Bridge, three to five years after that.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2020
• Such ways of opening the black box of AI work up to a point.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• The two kept in touch on Facebook, and O’Rourke worked up the courage to ask her out.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
• The mother of two works up to 35 hours a week at the Kwik Chek, for $12 an hour.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 25 May 2018
• Start the blender on low and work up to medium-high speed, adding the canola oil in a stream.
  — Alexandra Hall, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• Hand then put Braun in the 0-2 hole and tried to work up the ladder but fell a rung short.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2018
• The brand claims these can work up to 10 hours or more when fully charged.
  — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
• The film has been non-stop for years, and the team worked up until the last minute to perfect it.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
• Most people start with the small-college jobs and then work up to the big one.
  — Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Steam loosens any dirt on the floor, even working up sticky residue.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
• Fallon, meanwhile, worked up the courage to take a bite.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
• Can any of us work up the energy to care or change course?
  — Nicole Chung, Time, 6 Apr. 2021
• For one thing, the soil around here is bone dry, the plant life has worked up a mighty thirst, and stream flows are low.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• The idea is to help newer wine drinkers start off on the lighter wines and work up to bold flavors.
  — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2017
• Noel and Thomas have said that staffing shortages have forced guards to work up to 18-hour shifts.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2020
• However, guests can work up a sweat in the bright gym, open 24/7.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2025
• Do the famous Bondi to Coogee coastal walk and work up a sweat; then dive in to cool off.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 9 July 2019
• Step by step, work up to trimming one nail, then more than one at a time.
  — Sarah Ellis, National Geographic, 17 May 2018
• The next morning, work up a sweat by hiking in Will Rogers State Park.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2024
• The OGs who were blessed with the Machinists and 1990 can still get worked up over the Reds failings.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 1 May 2018
• Such a beautiful day to play outside and work up a sweat with the help of this mate !!!
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• Start from the ends and work up towards the roots: This will keep the pulling and tugging to a minimum.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 13 June 2024
• Callie didn’t want to believe that the wilderness is a part of her, and she got worked up.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• My tall phlox got a brown dieback starting at the bottom and working up the stalk to the flower.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Begin with 20 seconds per leg and work up to one minute.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2020
• At 22, he’s still got a lot of time to work up a more substantial deposit.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 June 2025
• When school is out, those children can work up to eight hours a day for a total of no more than 40 hours a week.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025