How to Use sum up in a Sentence

sum up

verb
  • So, to sum up: Of the top 11 teams in the rankings, five come from the SEC.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • This whole process is summed up by the title of the EP, Kismet.
    — Scott Huver, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
  • The thoughts of most Kings fans can be summed up in a few tweets.
    — Noel Harris, sacbee, 20 June 2018
  • The fourth game of the second set summed up Williams' woe.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Crazy sums up how the season played out for Mitchell and the Jazz.
    — John Coon, The Courier-Journal, 13 May 2018
  • So to sum up, the Dodgers’ trade deadline deals were sort of ...
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • This sums up the dilemma facing the country and the world.
    — Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The league’s poor style of play could be summed up in one 39-second video.
    — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 26 June 2018
  • This picture sums up this man’s life over the last decade.
    — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2024
  • That shot of him in the archival footage sums up everything.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • How to sum up the year 2020 for New Orleans restaurants and bars?
    — Beth D'addono, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • For her, that motto continues to sum up the ethos of the event.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • The principled case, now and then, is summed up in three words: Trump’s a crook.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
  • That summed up the 24-hour baseball cycle of the Marlins.
    — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 21 May 2018
  • For years, Mark Zuckerberg’s style could be summed up in a look: the hoodie.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
  • That about sums up South’s play at today’s four spades.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • After Sunday’s game, Harbaugh tried to find the words to sum up the loss.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • As a kid, that pretty much summed up back-to-school season for me.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • France: Les Bleus sums up the color of France's uniforms.
    — Matt Bonesteel, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • Twenty cities is far too few to sum up all the world’s beauty.
    — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2024
  • All that makes trying to sum up the lessons of the recall a tall order.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • That sums up the politics that many of us grew up with and embraced.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Intriguing — that might be the best way to sum up Alexander.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Out of nowhere, the player summed up the production of the Broncos’ 2019 free-agent/trade class.
    — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2019
  • That seems to sum up the weird black magic of this musical.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2021
  • No other song sums up the reason for the season quite like this one.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 29 July 2019
  • The response sums up the problem as no one has any patience left.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • That's the best word to sum up my October home favorites.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
  • What the New Review Found Over the years, scientists have made numerous attempts to sum up the evidence for and against beet juice.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Listen to this article Good morning from Detroit, That was a fairly easy game to sum up.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025

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