How To Use live up to In A Sentence
- The golden butternut squash velouté with escargot needed to be thicker to live up to its name, and more complex to live up to its price tag.
- I try to live up to the high standard of the school.
- It's been my experience that life is so constructed that the event cannot and will not live up to preconceived idea I have about it.
- She is quick to reproach anyone who doesn't live up to her own high standards.
- The first season of the local political satire didn't live up to its promise, but it's worth persevering with and an expanded cast and new writers are promised for this new season.
- This device could help to quell consumer anger about the way broadband speeds routinely don't live up to the promises of ISPs. Times, Sunday Times
- Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype.
- And while hitting the top 10 has created a blizzard of credibility-tinged hype around the group, they just can't live up to their radical image.
- He could be eloquent and lighthearted but also incisive and sarcastic with those who failed to live up to his high medical standards. Times, Sunday Times
- Conscience is a function of the ego ideal, and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal.
