How to Use shoot up in a Sentence

shoot up

verb
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  • 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
  • And that’s even has home prices have shot up over 70% in that span.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 May 2024
  • Over the past few years, rents and home prices in Jacksonville have shot up.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024
  • 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
  • The mixtape shoots up the Billboard 200 after vinyl copies of the set were shipped.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • If so, their odds of getting the job offer will shoot up.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • But serve up cheese omelet’s with a side of greasy sausage too often and the health risks may shoot up.
    — Matthew Kadey Rd, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
  • Stock prices shoot up and down like a roller coaster ride, and who knows when the whole thing might crash?
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 19 July 2022
  • The mussels then shoot up thousands of larvae into the gills of the eels.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
  • In that case, the put options fail to pay off, even as your groceries bills shoot up.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • This is great for Casey’s business and revenue starts to shoot up.
    — Yec, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The goons shoot up the liver, but Knight's able to attack them using the knife Palmer just slipped her.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 17 May 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
  • Netflix saw profits shoot up in the UK last year while its tax bill doubled.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
  • After the deal was announced, the stock shot up 31% but those gains quickly leveled off.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In May 2023, law enforcement interviewed him about allegedly threatening to shoot up a school.
    — Emily Palmer, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024

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