How to Use shoot up in a Sentence

shoot up

verb

• Basha could shoot up to the top two in the Open with a win.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
• But later in the month, the price shoots up to $879 one-way.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• What’s less fun is shooting up to five episodes at once as the 9-1-1 team races the clock.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• But the trend doesn’t seem to be holding for 2023, and attacks have shot up again.
  — WIRED, 12 July 2023
• If so, their odds of getting the job offer will shoot up.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
• When the song ended, one of the band members shot up his hand in what looked kind of like a Hitler salute.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• Beamer has a chance to shoot up these rankings in the coming years.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2022
• Cocoa futures in New York have shot up more than two-thirds over the past year.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• But then the market started to freeze in 2023 as mortgage rates shot up.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• In the building next door, addicts shot up in a stairwell.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Is the state worried someone is going to shoot up the moon?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Meanwhile, tickets to the flagship parks have shot up in price.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• There was a guy who’d been shot up [and was] walking across the bridge towards us in downtown L.A..
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 31 Aug. 2023
• After someone walked in with a gun and threatened to shoot up the store, Mr. Rabee called 911.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• Hands shoot up across the rows in the chilly room at Sony Pictures Studios: How many people apply for the show?
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• The moment the back window shattered, Huda heard a whoosh of oxygen and saw the flames around the bus shoot up into the air.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The company’s stock shot up more than 10 percent that day.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Under the full-spectrum LED grow light, baby greens shoot up fast, from seed to plate in 7-12 days.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• After the deal was announced, the stock shot up 31% but those gains quickly leveled off.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• Calls from fire victims to a mental health hotline shot up this spring.
  — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
• Next to Branch on the dais after the game, linebacker Mason Cobb’s eyebrows shot up at the mention of the blazing track time.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The gun case was the one for the 9mm Sig Sauer handgun that the father had bought just four days before the shooting, the gun his son would use to shoot up the school.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
• The number of meetings increased, too, shooting up more than 150% for workers across the globe.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• The bright foliage forms a dense carpet; blue flower spikes up to 6 inches tall shoot up among the leaves in spring and summer.
  — Marty Ross, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
• Once the sound enters the brain, neurons shoot up across different parts to decode each lyric, melody and rhythm.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Gold did very well in the late 1970s when inflation shot up into the double digits.
  — Catherine Brock, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• There are people wall to wall and flames shooting up from the blasters behind Uncle Waffles, a part of the set design.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• If Drake or Travis Scott, for instance, sports a new shoe or even an old one and posts them on their social media, the price of that shoe will shoot up.
  — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Chicago is topping the list in the Midwest, with the second fastest growing rental market in the country, as rents shot up by more than 4% over the past year.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2023
• During the news conference, McCraw gave a timeline of the suspect discussing his plans to buy a gun and shoot up the school.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024