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land up

VERB
  1. block with earth, as after a landslide
  2. finally be or do something
    he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
    He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart

How To Use land up In A Sentence

  • The rhymes and rhythms lure you onwards - but you often land up in a sombre place. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sub-arctic macroclimate of Hudson Bay with permafrost, salt water, strong winds, and a deep, long lasting snow cover affect the structure and dynamics of its coastal ecosystems more than land uplift, the effects of which are more obvious in the Kvarken Archipelago. Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
  • He'll land up in hospital if he carries on drinking like that.
  • Be careful that you don't land up in serious debt.
  • Theory of folkland upon which the ordinance was based 207 The Critical Period of American History
  • We need to recognize that certain uses of the land upon which we live are simply wrong.
  • The water runs down with a strong sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; but on the other side it is flat, pebbly, and fit to land upon. Lorna Doone
  • That passage seems to me to demonstrate a conformity between the law of the Convention and the domestic law of England upon the scope of liability in third agency cases where the claim relates to serious injury or death.
  • When we accepted that lift in Paris, we never expected to land up in Athens.
  • It is the Africans who are moving, shifting, thinking, plotting, and therefore digging their own entrenchment in this land upon which so many others have, through wiles and stratagems of their own, entrenched themselves here.
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