think up

VERB
  1. devise or invent
    He thought up a plan to get rich quickly
    no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software
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How To Use think up In A Sentence

  • And if caps and hoods are banned, it may just inspire others to dress more individually and think up a new fashion craze.
  • She warn't ever the same, after that; she never complained, but she kind of pined away and did not live long. hat was bugging Mark Twain in 1876, to make him think up the benighted village of Deer Lick? The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
  • She was still trying to think up a way to get out of trying out for the dance team.
  • It is the self-reflective move to think upon our own conceptual frameworks and how they shape our own textual production.
  • An individualist does not ponder ways to bring people together in an organised fashion, which is the seed of the mental process required to think up a new game.
  • She does seem like the type who could think up such a thing and I'm sure a publisher wouldn't be averse to the idea.
  • But though DAYBREAKERS wobbles they set up a glorious ending, then make it much less effective, and anybody who's watched CNN will immediately think up a simple and effective tactic that the vampires for some strange reason fail to use, there are little things all through the movie that make you realize, "Okay, they didn't think of *everything,* but at least they thought about *some* things. Quick review: DAYBREAKERS
  • In his letter acknowledging my congratulations on his appointment he expressed the fear that I might think up some defence. Times, Sunday Times
  • We would never want to do scattershot acquisitions and then have to think up strategies to justify them.
  • Industry critics say they are stalling for time to think up more positive ways of presenting farmed fish.
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