lines up

present tense third-person singular of line up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lines up
Verb
  • Laurie's experience parallels that of a new character, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell).
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For about 24 hours after the stand was spotted, investigators closed all lanes of Southern Boulevard, which parallels the southern border of the airport.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The crew at Fireman Derek’s is cooking around the clock to pump out sweets for its three storefronts, plus Goldbelly orders that ship nationwide.
    Nila Do Simon, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In video released by the Ferguson Police department, a Missouri man orders his daughter, 6, to assault another child on the bus.
    Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On foreign policy, particularly regarding the Israel–Hamas conflict, Quinnipiac reported that 41 percent of voters said Mamdani’s stance aligns most closely with their own, versus 26 percent for Cuomo and 13 percent for Sliwa.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The new strategy connects water goals to the denim giant’s 2024 Climate Action Transition Plan, which aligns the company’ business plans with its climate commitments.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rookie fourth-round pick Jordan Watkins is suiting up for his first game, joining a unit that consists today of Jauan Jennings, Kendrick Bourne, Demarcus Robinson and Skyy Moore.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The menu consists mostly of a caviar list and a $95 per person prix fixe.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • McCollum believes this fervently, getting quite testy with Polsky when the filmmaker registers his doubts.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Zooming out to the monthly chart (log scale), the recent 10% pullback barely registers in the bigger picture.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The display area matches the size of a human pupil and achieves a resolution beyond 25,000 pixels per inch (ppi), which is about 150 times denser than most smartphone screens.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For streamers, the issue of local investment is becoming more and more pressing, with most countries now working on some form of levy or quota that matches, at least in part, the content obligations placed on local broadcasters.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Wikipedia sorts the issues into a bunch of large buckets, all citing real examples of AI writing uncovered on Wikipedia.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Access equals information, which is, essentially, how the sausage is made in point-shaving.
    Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That equals about 13 times a year for each residence.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Lines up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lines%20up. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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