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.
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  • 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.
  • The members of a thousand consciousness-raising groups drove themselves into a thousand tizzies trying to think up a solution to this homely yet vexing problem. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
  • I've got to think up something to wear for the fancy dress party.
  • In his letter acknowledging my congratulations on his appointment he expressed the fear that I might think up some defence. Times, Sunday Times
  • What makes it funnier is that in attempting to think up something, like, really cool as a new name, they manage to maintain the original uncoolness of the tragically, chronically uncool original by having it sound exactly the same. Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
  • All this kind of music about energy is the best thing that ministers in Canada seem to be able to think up to kind of sing, to show the Canadian public that they're concerned, they're not going to put up with this guff from the United States.
  • So I just stood, open-mouthed, floundering, desperately trying to think up a reasonable excuse for not having shopped there recently.
  • And think upon the soul, lifting herself up from the body and rejecting indulgence and fleshly delights and pleasures and laying aside as well her concern for worldly vanities.
  • Can't you think up a better excuse than that?
  • Off he went to think up new recipes for 30 varieties of truffles and pralines, caramels and rose and violent creams, all created on the Water Street premises.
  • Advertising companies are always having to think up new ways to promote products.
  • I'm finding it tricky to think up an explanation for his carry on that doesn't involve an imprisonable offence. Has Cameron out-apologised Brown?
  • Pre-election federal spending announcements are so lucrative that one strains to think up ways to get some of the boodle directed toward native communities.
  • I can say it's "my destiny" to spend the weekend eating leftover Lamb bhuna in my dressing gown while trying to think up unfavourable anagrams of "David Cameron Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
  • Keziah tried to think up a suitably sarcastic retort quickly, but her mind was blank.
  • Advertising companies are always having to think up new ways to promote products.
  • Certainly, Andreessen didn't think up using hypertext to link Internet documents.
  • They thought … that it sufficed for a prince … to think up a sharp reply, to write a beautiful letter, to demonstrate wit and readiness in saying and words, to know how to weave a fraud … to conduct himself avariciously and proudly, to rot in idleness, to give military rank by favor … Winner Takes All
  • Following me at the same legal speed, he was puled over for "being in the wrong lane", "speeding" and every other excuse that the police could think up. Payment method on loot brough in to Mexico
  • In his letter acknowledging my congratulations on his appointment he expressed the fear that I might think up some defence. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you are comfortable with shell scripting and cron (or launchd, for non-dinosaurs) you can probably think up ways to adapt those examples and make it almost seem like the importing is as automagical as it is with. mov files. MacOSXHints.com
  • When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edgar Watson Howe 
  • What I will eschew is mispoona and rapa senza testa and bianca riccia da taglio and whatever else they can think up for me in the catalogues this winter. Jean's Knitting
  • She was trying to think up an excuse.
  • Enthusiastically receiving the rules and given free rein to be as chauvinistic as they like, the five men meet in the pub to think up some new rules of their own.
  • They think up tricksy names, they might even hire an expensive designer to do them a label, and when it comes to the end, their wine is made in the same winery as all their rivals' wines.
  • Did you actually think that there's someone employed to painstakingly think up playlists for radio stations and write them up by hand or something?
  • It would be hard to think up a system that could do more to fuel public cynicism about MPs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only thing Rob could think up as a possible Hank Camden failure was the likelihood of a low sperm count.
  • I don't want to go tonight but I can't think up a good excuse.
  • Advertising companies are always having to think up new ways to promote products.
  • I couldn't even think up of a word bad enough to insult her with, I was fulminating with so much rage.
  • Certainly, Andreessen didn't think up using hypertext to link Internet documents.
  • What makes it funnier is that in attempting to think up something, like, really cool as a new name, they manage to maintain the original uncoolness of the tragically, chronically uncool original by having it sound exactly the same. Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
  • Why," said David quietly, "I did think upon his wife and the child'n, and little Grace seemed to say to me, ` Take care o 'faither' -- besides, there are none to weep if I was taken away, so the Lord gave me grace to do it. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
  • This often puts them on the spot to think up yet another appropriately nuanced "synonym" for one of the common and natural quotative verbs, like say, insist, explain.
  • For now, check out this meta Flickr photoset, which contains lots of sleepy developers, half-consumed energy drinks, and funny things people think up when they're hyperconnected and under-slept -- international dance-offs, for example. Boing Boing
  • In his letter acknowledging my congratulations on his appointment he expressed the fear that I might think up some defence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger? Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
  • Where did you think up that BS about Irwin valuing animals over humans and that quip about abortion? A Not-So-Sad Farewell to the "Crocodile Hunter"
  • Plz don't take my storyline, cuz it took me forever to think up!

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