How To Use Put up In A Sentence

  • Even so it is a very secure bend and can put up with a good deal of strain and movement. It can also be used to tie a bend with thin line.
  • (Regular posters such as Kurland put up more on their own 3-D YouTube channels.) USATODAY.com Weather News
  • They have to put up with some shoddy sequels to groundbreaking originals.
  • The old flower and fruit market has been put up for sale.
  • The central bank has put up interest rates.
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  • They currently have up to 65 days to notify consumers after they have put up prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • In recent years the Grahams have had to put up with freezing cold, mildew and woodworm.
  • It's heartening to know that not all Mexicans are in thrall to the mighty Christmas tree and still put up nacimientos in their homes! OK! Now that I know . . . . . .
  • My kitchen sink view is to the north, up the hill that crests our property, to a small apple orchard and the run my husband put up for our dogs (we call it their "playpen" and whenever they hear that word, they go crazy!) Posy
  • Sir Robert Smirke in 1807 put up work which consisted chiefly of panelling, which was affixed to the easternmost wall of the feretory. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
  • Anna put up a mild protest.
  • They beat a Lions side which barely put up a fight; this is the weakest Australian side for many years; and a Springboks side still in transition came very close indeed to beating them in New Zealand and won the two games on aggregate.
  • A nude portrait of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni will be put up for auction by Chrtistie's in New York next month.
  • He put up a stout defence in court.
  • A cure will be found one day, but until then my personal verdict is that age-related arthritis and rheumatism are a natural part of the human condition, and you simply have to put up with it and get about your business best you can.
  • The party intends to field / put up a candidate in the next general election.
  • The teacher training college put up a plaque to the college's founder.
  • The residents believe that the appointment of their new mayor was put up.
  • The Jerusalem Rabbinate also works each year to ensure restaurants and hotels receiving kosher certification from the Jerusalem Religious Council do not put up Christian symbols. Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce
  • People put up their homes as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.
  • Time and again, Ike put up with the foibles, discourtesies, and downright arrogance of his official subor dinate, while at the same time insisting that his major decisions be carried out. General Ike
  • Were your brain appreciably larger, large enough to put the strain on your Princess Grace neck that your loppy preaxial digits put upon your wrists, you conceivably would possess a superior intellect. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • He was a humorous and gentle pastor of his flock, a good parson who put up a new poster every week to attract people to come to his church.
  • MOSCOW - The Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise Salyut on the east side of town has put up a massive Soviet-style poster advertising its need for skilled workers.
  • The last of the dishes were put up, and supper was in the oven.
  • It was not necessary for the early Christians to sit in judgment on the title of every new emperor, whenever the pretorian guards chose to put down one and put up another; neither are God's people now in various parts of the world called upon to discuss the titles and adjudicate the claims of their rulers. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
  • At last he suffered vows to be put up for his good journey and safe return, insomuch that he was called jocosely by the name of Callipides, who is famous in a Greek proverb, for being in a great hurry to go forward, but without ever advancing a cubit. De vita Caesarum
  • For the rest I will take care that due warning is given, and a notice put up in all places, to prevent you being entered on the census as absent; and to get put on the census just before the lustration is the mark of your true man of business. [ The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
  • This is fine for smokers but non-smokers having chosen not to smoke shouldn't have to put up with the smell on them really.
  • So, we brought him to the studio, put up the little demo that we'd done, and he listened to a little bit of it, then wadded it up and threw it on the floor. Mike Ragogna: Van Hunt's Free "June" Download, Plus Chatting with Steve Cropper
  • A warm welcome with a pleasant smile awaited us as we entered the hotel room where she was put up with her cousin sis.
  • It will shortly be put up for sale under the terms already communicated to you, which, to recapitulate, call for a very minimum of publicity.
  • He taught them the rudiments of carpentry and construction as they put up a unit for poultry production.
  • He'd go out at night and snag spawning salmon and bring them back to freeze and smoke and put up in jars. Times, Sunday Times
  • The local historical society put up a plaque at the site of the battle.
  • Rhee and Fenty describe how they "implored" private foundations to put up money to fund that bargain. DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 1, 2010
  • This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction.
  • These days, nobody cared what high-grade powder he put up his nose, whom he spent the night with.
  • They may be content to put up with a certain proportion of customer complaints for a given volume of business.
  • Well the nation has had to put up with weeks of its intelligence being insulted by those who claimed we were wrong to act.
  • Trollope, especially at school, must have put up with much badinage.
  • The essential point is that people who read and write weblogs, like those who see value in Usenet, or those who rely on email, are prepared to put up with a few inconveniences for the sake of the benefits of their chosen communications medium.
  • They currently have up to 65 days to notify consumers after they have put up prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • Paquin calmly flays him with words; she makes it clear that this is not something she'll put up with and that he needs to get his head on straight and get on with it. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Romantics
  • At the bottom of Chinese pacificism is the willingness to put up with temporary losses and bide one's time.
  • When you decide that you have the right to taunt someone, you have no idea what kind of marginalization that they have put up with before encountering you. Archive 2009-11-01
  • He has been dishonest and disloyal and I've just put up with it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eleven years on and the hurried portraits of Dave, Nick and Mat will this week be put up for auction at a sale which will either bewilder people, or get them hunting through drawers for that elusive bit of paper from the time they got the artist to draw them a picture. Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction
  • About 20 pairs had been put up for sale, worth more than £3,500 to the online touts.
  • The shop has now put up a sign of its own - politely requesting that fans desist. The Sun
  • Those in the bottom group will be required to put up signs advising visitors not to swim. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not to be missed are the ensemble of classic and contemporary masterpieces put up by stores.
  • He had to put up his truck against the bail bond, but there was just no way he was going to let them keep Blair in jail while he found the killer.
  • A new wall and grills have already been put up to form an enclosure around the area.
  • Havs, JB is totally soft - centred and intellectual or else why would he put up with all of the free styling on his roof top? Cheeseburger Gothic » God bless you, big insurance company.
  • Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • I put up the main, mizzen, and gennaker, as much sail as we could carry, and we were making a course straight for Acapulco at over 5 knots. Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
  • And that boy be cockered up much by Mister Dale; and the Papishers went and sat with him and his mother a whole hour t'other day; and that boy is as deep as a well; and I seed him lurking about the place, and hiding hisself under the tree the day the stocks was put up -- and that ere boy is Lenny Fairfield. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
  • Dante and I went back to the stables and the grooms put up our horses.
  • In the undiplomatic language of my old neighborhood, put up or shut up.
  • You have to put up with renting and wait for a slump. Times, Sunday Times
  • The baby was put up for adoption .
  • Of course I am not consulted by State-owned enterprises before they put up prices.
  • Such regimes put up a veneer of stability, unity and consensus, just as democracies project a misleading veneer of weakness.
  • But when Tabu-Tabu put up his hands after the most approved method of self-defense and dropped into a "crouch, Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
  • They're on a great overtime rate, they're being put up in decent hotels and have got a week away from the accursed paperwork.
  • She insists: 'My mam and dad always put up with me. The Sun
  • The cooler heads counsel to look at the big picture, focus our anger on the larger swindle or understand that we have to put up with certain distasteful practices if we're going to get this mess cleaned up. Lance Mannion:
  • A forensics tent had been put up. The Sun
  • Fresh research suggests that, while people will happily put up with voluntary restrictions on movement, they balk at the idea of compulsory quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of course it's what one's used to, I know, and there are plenty of people not willing to put up with the dry skin that the climate brings, not to mention the thundering nor'westers that are likewise a feature of Cannerbury.
  • The reason why we put up with all these makeshifts is because we are so poor that we cannot help it.
  • Like their forefathers, the present generation also has to put up with the stench.
  • Amos and Jimmie Starkweather were all for sailing off this morning to bring the dory home," he continued, "but a boatload of the 'Somerset's' men stopped them and sent them ashore, threatening to dismast any sloop that put up a sail in this harbor without their permission. A Little Maid of Province Town
  • Can anyone put up a flag for the country they favour? Times, Sunday Times
  • It's the lies and the deceit we won't put up with. The Sun
  • Besides primary, secondary, we should also look at - that's a active scene, passive thing, did she put up a fight or she just submit herself.
  • The bid to put up the mast comes a week before a public meeting is to be held to discuss the controversial plan.
  • The Republicans are going to attack any plan, so just put up the best plan and go without them. km in STL WH may push through health care reform without Republicans
  • His wife must have been a saint to put up with him for all those years.
  • But it did win significant shares of the vote in some of the 120 constituencies where it put up a candidate.
  • We'll have to clear up the rubble and put up a tent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here, I'd like to put up an idea for your consideration.
  • He said that house prices could be forced up once Hips are introduced next year because fewer homes may be put up for sale. Times, Sunday Times
  • We've stripped wallpaper, painted, put up skirting boards, hung blinds, panelled ceilings and clad walls.
  • One saving thought alone presented itself — this might be a trial, an experiment of the philosopher Agelastes, or of the Emperor his master, for the purpose of proving the courage of which the Christians vaunted so highly, and punishing the thoughtless insult which the Count had been misadvised enough to put upon the Emperor the preceding day. Count Robert of Paris
  • Joseph also taught many ways to put up walls of stone for large buildings, and told us of a substance called poz - zolana, an earth that came from the volcanoes south of Rome; this pozzolana, mixed with lime, became a ce - ment. The Gospel according to the Son
  • For several weeks the new centre has become a hive of activity as community volunteers put up the fixtures and fittings in time for the big move.
  • They have put up signs making it clear motorcycling is forbidden.
  • For the first time, protesters were calling forcefully Wednesday for labor strikes, despite a warning by Suleiman that calls for civil disobedience are "very dangerous for society and we can't put up with this at all. Egypt Labor Strikes Break Out Across The Country; Protesters Defiant
  • I am somewhat miffed that if I am ever to achieve this ambition, I will have to put up with rather too much of this idiot's writings.
  • If it weren't for paedobaptism, I could put up with Presbyterian ecclesiology--but my eyeballs still pop when someone starts talkin' 'bout sprinkin'. The grace of forgetfulness - BatesLine
  • Beth rolled her eyes at her, then put up an imaginary microphone, pretending that she was a game show host.
  • In the meanwhile, Gramma put up a piece of oilcloth to keep the bugs out and let a little light in.
  • The soggy firewood was gathered, tents put up, and a line strung between trees to hang the wet gear to dry.
  • Can any thing be more absonant from faith and reason than this absurd expression? and yet it is the direct sense, if it be any, that these men put upon the words. A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
  • They won't have to put up with any 'common' people living near them as only those with loadsamoney could afford these homes.
  • Youth is to prepare the material, want to build a bridge to the moon, or on the ground and two palaces or temples. Middle age, finally decided to put up a shed.
  • Then she went and put up some things called banns, I believe. The Green Carnation
  • Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! Farcir - French Word-A-Day
  • She put up her hands to ward him off.
  • So in like manner we are faulty when we torture the words of another, and wiredraw them, that we may if possible make them speak a bad sense, when it may be a much better might be put upon them. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • Ron Kershaw was known as a maverick, a hard-partying, renegade newsman who networks put up with despite his unorthodoxy simply because he turned third place stations into first place stations in record speed. Live and Let Love
  • I can't put up with this awful machine any longer.
  • They trooped to the stalls put up by Annapoorna and Elite hotels and happily dug into fish biriyani, fish fried rice, fish with chapatti and just good ol’ fish.
  • Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
  • It was Bob who originally put up the idea of the exhibition.
  • For those of us who were expecting the Iraqi army to put up more resistance to the coalition this may provide a partial answer to why they did not.
  • If a trader wishes to put up a fingerpost sign, sandwich board or tables and chairs on the streets they will be required to pay annual licence fees of between 125 and 630.
  • It was tough on the Carlow girls who had put up a sterling second half fight back having trailed by six points at half time.
  • We thought we'd put up/hang some wallpaper in the children's bedroom to make it brighter.
  • No, Aries is the one that gets through just before the constabulary put up the Highway Closed signs. Astrology and Traffic Tie-ups
  • If the walls are uneven, you may have to replaster, put up plasterboard or special tile backer boards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, I guess that some of those figures have been pulled out of the ether (hands shaken?) but my main observation is that with apparently double the “activists”, Labour has handed out less than half the leaflets, put up two-thirds of the numbers of the posters and made less than a third of the phone-calls that their nationalist opponents have managed. Never mind the quantity...
  • Usually we put up about five finely split cords of wood, at least three to make syrup and the rest for our wood stove-fireplace.
  • Some enterprising vendors have put up impromptu juice stalls selling watermelon juice.
  • I've put up with all the worry while you and Martin were playing your silly games. KICK BACK
  • Landlords like the flexibility of being able to put up rents and evict unsuitable tenants. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has put up clear warnings about the dangers of the sea at regular intervals along this stretch of coastline.
  • He put up the money for him to open a photoengraving shop with two partners. Portrait of An Artist
  • They put up a barrier to divide the women's section off from the men's.
  • He was put up in a youth hostel for about six months, thousands of miles away from his family. Times, Sunday Times
  • Posters have been put up in response to complaints of queue-jumping, jostling and barging in the rush to claim the best seats. Times, Sunday Times
  • They help the motor industry with a scrappage scheme, who then put up prices. The Sun
  • Let the front of a Doric temple, at the place where the columns are put up, be divided, if it is to be tetrastyle, into twenty-seven parts; if hexastyle, into forty-two. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Accordingly, when put upon another boy's back to be horsed, as it was termed, he slipped a large pin, called a corker, in his mouth, and on receiving the first blow stuck it into the neck of the boy who carried him. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
  • They put up temporary housing made out of mud, out of bamboo, out of thatch, out of tarpaulin, out of corrugated steel.
  • Theresa Stevens, 21, was beaten, repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself.
  • One wall is dedicated to announcements, notices and messages that patrons want to put up.
  • Wells was supposed to put up half the money, but later backed out.
  • Jane, in all her mildness put up with the sometimes tedious affair without a single complaint.
  • He said he was confident that they would put up an impressive show and eventually emerge winners.
  • Posters will be put up at all of the railway stations, railway crossings, access points and known trespass locations.
  • A wooden door was now put up, and the baking was left to itself for about twenty-four hours, at the end of which time the lead would have become transformed into a yellowish powder, known as massicot. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
  • But the point somehow needs to be hammered home that more apartment buildings and social housing units need to be urgently put up.
  • The American ship put up such resistance that Stier, after sinking her, went down too.
  • There is a shelter the Indian government has put up but it was only a tarpaulin tent. The Sun
  • But the woman, she was the one who was put up on the cross and crucified today on talk radio.
  • For projects with no hope of making the deadline, workers toiled instead to put up screening walls, or to neaten the piles of I-beams and rebar that normally littered the sites. China's Way Forward
  • The great, the good and the rich rule their fiefdoms without having to put up with any impertinent interference from the people who do most of the work or buy the goods.
  • The group identified the various species on the campus and has put up nameplates on each tree, with details such as its local name, scientific name and regions where it can be found.
  • We've all had to put up with long-winded legal writing.
  • Patriotic slogans and neon signs, put up by private businessmen on office towers, depict dolphins (the region's mascot) and the bauhinia flower. Painting The Town Red
  • We can put up with many obscurities and apparent irrelevancies, without assuming that this makes no sense.
  • Posters advertising the concert have been put up all over the town.
  • The company's stay was fairly brief, for in 1908 operations ceased and the mill was put up for auction.
  • He'd put up with a lot of bad behaviour from his son and thought it was time to read him the riot act.
  • It's one thing to put up a security fence, a barrier that is clearly on your property, the dividing line, so to speak, in order to protect yourself.
  • The soggy firewood was gathered, tents put up, and a line strung between trees to hang the wet gear to dry.
  • Recently, the building once occupied by Pizza City was put up for rent.
  • They say they have to put up with increased noise, foul and abusive language and a complete loss of privacy since the work was completed earlier this year.
  • As part of the settlement, the building on the crematory property will be removed and no other structures will be put up to maintain a natural state where the remains were found.
  • The nine men and two women were put up in squalid conditions and went for days eating only potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cheshire junior girls put up a brave fight before losing by a point to Yorkshire at Low Laithes in an inter-county fixture.
  • The paintings have been joined to form one montage, which has been put up in the school hall.
  • He put up a fight when the police tried to arrest him.
  • The bankers put up $150,00, hired professional flacks and launched a television assault.
  • He put up a stake to support the newly planted tree.
  • The cafe owner has put up the required 'no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there.
  • She suffered from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and was largely unresponsive and he knew she could put up no resistance.
  • If you can put up a good enough case, the board will provide the finance.
  • The common construction put upon the expression, "_rule with rigor_," and an inference drawn from it, have an air so oracular, as quite to overcharge risibles of ordinary calibre, if such an effect were not forestalled by its impiety. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • However, our recompence is in Christ's hands, who will reward us with eternal glory for the shame we thus patiently endure; and though it be not directly inflicted, it if be quietly borne for conscience 'sake, and in conformity to Christ's example, it shall be put upon the score of suffering for Christ. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The residents believe that the appointment of their new mayor was put up.
  • It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed.
  • A swing and a slide have been put up in the garden. Times, Sunday Times
  • She's too polite to tell him to shut up and go away, so we put up with him.
  • A new home owner furious at faults with the construction has put up a warning notice to other potential buyers.
  • Now he has to put up with her strumming the guitar. The Sun
  • They didn't want people staring at them as they sat on the lawn, so they put up high walls.
  • He also wants to establish a new vehicle recovery business on land at the back of the petrol station and put up a new security fence.
  • Youth is to prepare the material, want to build a bridge to the moon, or on the ground and two palaces or temples. Middle age, finally decided to put up a shed.
  • A magazine put up N$3000 for the biggest kolstert and the biggest kabeljou will fetch its catcher N$3000 put up by a local bank.
  • He's a nasty, stupid, oafish and worryingly devious main character and put up against Homer, it's inevitable which one the public would go for.
  • The local historical society put up a plaque at the site of the battle.
  • She said chokingly, `It's too bad you've had to put up with me so long. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • I propose to lead for the future, in this motto, which I have put up in the frize of my library in my new house: — Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • Don't shout out the answer in class, put up your hand.
  • The Novartis team put up a valiant fight, but admit defeat.
  • We have a little stop clocker, a stop watch we're going to put up in the corner of the screen, and we're going to continue our conversation. CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2003
  • As usual, it's overwhelmingly the rich who get the pleasure while the poor put up with lousy services and fares which have rocketed since deregulation.
  • The Celts and their predecessors had put up edifices such as stone circles, calms and assorted burial constructions near sacred wells.
  • In fact they put up a spirited fight for much of this contest, but lacked the heavy artillery.
  • They put up hundreds of billions in loans and letters of credit to make deals possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • I respect her, because at least she is principled - she believes in what she has put up here.
  • They have been put up by people desperate to make some extra money in order to make ends meet.
  • In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
  • The farmers put up five tons of hay for the winter.
  • While keeping an eye on Marilyn Monroe (whom Sinatra had put up at one of his LA pads), Jacobs is propositioned by the the blonde bombshell.
  • Occasionally he put up a hand to satisfy himself hair remained undisturbed.
  • The Green Party hopes to put up more candidates in the next election.
  • I'm fed up with being put upon by my boss all the time.
  • The lousy weather, the stabbings, the congestion charge they could all put up with. Times, Sunday Times
  • For those studios short on capital or needing additional product, they can focus on a short slate of high-quality movies by opening up their distribution systems to respected creative filmmakers—and their outside financing groups—who are prepared either to cofinance the production/distribution risks with the studio or to put up all the risk dollars involved, including prints and advertising, in a separate slate of studio-type films. The Movie Business Book, Third Edition
  • The governor had hoped to put up the statue this week to coincide with that anniversary but has delayed it until September, promising public consultations. Times, Sunday Times
  • The money for the new hospital was put up by an anonymous donor.
  • At the general election of 1950, it put up 100 candidates, lost both its seats, and forfeited 97 deposits.
  • The police has put up a 'shamiana' at the scene of the blast in order to facilitate the work of investigators and forensic experts. Analysis
  • People put up their homes as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.
  • You suspect that only a person as used to contradicting herself as she is would have put up with it. Times, Sunday Times

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