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.
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Richard Obert,
The Arizona Republic,
26 Oct. 2022
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But later in the month, the price shoots up to $879 one-way.
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Scott McMurren,
Anchorage Daily News,
8 July 2023
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And that’s even has home prices have shot up over 70% in that span.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
5 May 2024
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Over the past few years, rents and home prices in Jacksonville have shot up.
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Monica Potts,
ABC News,
19 July 2024
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What’s less fun is shooting up to five episodes at once as the 9-1-1 team races the clock.
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Patrick Gomez,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2024
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But the trend doesn’t seem to be holding for 2023, and attacks have shot up again.
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WIRED,
12 July 2023
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The mixtape shoots up the Billboard 200 after vinyl copies of the set were shipped.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
24 Sep. 2024
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Tony asks if the cops know about Tyler's season 2 threat to shoot up the dance, but Tyler says no.
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Martha Sorren,
refinery29.com,
8 June 2020
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On the back is a 10-megapixel camera that can shoot up to 4K video.
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Jason Cipriani,
CNN Underscored,
28 Oct. 2020
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If so, their odds of getting the job offer will shoot up.
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Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 July 2023
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But serve up cheese omelet’s with a side of greasy sausage too often and the health risks may shoot up.
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Matthew Kadey Rd,
Outside Online,
7 May 2021
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Stock prices shoot up and down like a roller coaster ride, and who knows when the whole thing might crash?
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
11 Nov. 2021
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When the song ended, one of the band members shot up his hand in what looked kind of like a Hitler salute.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2024
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Beamer has a chance to shoot up these rankings in the coming years.
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Creg Stephenson | [email protected],
al,
19 July 2022
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The mussels then shoot up thousands of larvae into the gills of the eels.
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Washington Post,
15 Sep. 2021
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In that case, the put options fail to pay off, even as your groceries bills shoot up.
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William Baldwin,
Forbes,
11 Nov. 2021
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This is great for Casey’s business and revenue starts to shoot up.
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Yec,
Forbes,
17 May 2021
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The goons shoot up the liver, but Knight's able to attack them using the knife Palmer just slipped her.
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Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
17 May 2022
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Cocoa futures in New York have shot up more than two-thirds over the past year.
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Joe Wallace,
WSJ,
24 Nov. 2023
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But then the market started to freeze in 2023 as mortgage rates shot up.
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Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2024
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In the building next door, addicts shot up in a stairwell.
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Eyal Press,
The New Yorker,
13 Nov. 2023
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With a median pickup, the risk shoots up from 11% to 91%.
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Tanya Mohn,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
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With a median [height] pickup, the risk shoots up from 11% to 91%.
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Tucker Reals,
CBS News,
10 Dec. 2024
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Is the state worried someone is going to shoot up the moon?
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Laura Johnston,
cleveland,
18 July 2023
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Meanwhile, tickets to the flagship parks have shot up in price.
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Cnn.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2024
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There was a guy who’d been shot up [and was] walking across the bridge towards us in downtown L.A..
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Matt Thompson,
Spin,
31 Aug. 2023
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After someone walked in with a gun and threatened to shoot up the store, Mr. Rabee called 911.
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Cameron McWhirter,
WSJ,
16 Sep. 2022
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Hands shoot up across the rows in the chilly room at Sony Pictures Studios: How many people apply for the show?
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Emily Yahr,
Washington Post,
31 Oct. 2022
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According to Google Trends, searches for axolotls shot up in June 2021 after Minecraft added them to its game.
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CBS News,
19 Dec. 2024
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This figure shoots up to 40 percent for millennials and Gen Z.
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Tim Ryan,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
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