scare up
verb
scared up; scaring up; scares up
: to find or get together with considerable labor or difficulty : scrape up
managed to scare up the money
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Examples of scare up in a Sentence
I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them.
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Raising money, building name recognition, scaring up a decent-sized crowd were all stiff challenges for any representative who ventured too far from home.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The Conjuring, made for just $20 million, became a runaway hit when it was released in 2013, scaring up almost $320 million worldwide.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
Rounding out the top five is another horror entry from Blumhouse and Universal, The Exorcist: Believer which scared up an additional $3.1 million for a four-week total of $59.3 million ($61 million globally).
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023
An elegant prose stylist with a sharp critical eye, Hermes appears to have scared up everyone alive whose life intersected with his subject.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Skarsgard, who helped the It movies scare up over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, will be seen in the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4 and is currently filming the action-fantasy Boy Kills World.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2022
The horror movie scared up $3.1 million in previews at the box office.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
Though Trump’s exaggeration of the threat posed by Antifa is likely a cynical ploy to scare up votes, Proud Boys like Shane and David Machado seem sincerely and deeply worried about Antifa.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020
The horror film starring and directed by Patrick Wilson scared up $32.7 million in ticket sales from 3,188 theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
—Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The Conjuring, made for just $20 million, became a runaway hit when it was released in 2013, scaring up almost $320 million worldwide.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
Rounding out the top five is another horror entry from Blumhouse and Universal, The Exorcist: Believer which scared up an additional $3.1 million for a four-week total of $59.3 million ($61 million globally).
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023
An elegant prose stylist with a sharp critical eye, Hermes appears to have scared up everyone alive whose life intersected with his subject.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Skarsgard, who helped the It movies scare up over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, will be seen in the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4 and is currently filming the action-fantasy Boy Kills World.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2022
The horror movie scared up $3.1 million in previews at the box office.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
Though Trump’s exaggeration of the threat posed by Antifa is likely a cynical ploy to scare up votes, Proud Boys like Shane and David Machado seem sincerely and deeply worried about Antifa.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020
The horror film starring and directed by Patrick Wilson scared up $32.7 million in ticket sales from 3,188 theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
—Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
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“Scare up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20up. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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