How to Use bid up in a Sentence

bid up

verb
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  • Even still, investors have bid up the shares by over 30% in the past 12 months, to an all-time high.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • To try to troll scalpers, some have bid up prices of the hardware with no intent to buy.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Still, investors have bid up the shares of Live Nation more than 20% so far this year.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • As buyers bid up prices, the housing market boomed…and then boomed some more.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • For a decade, rock-bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • At the time of this writing, the Guards Red car that is the subject of this auction had been bid up to three times higher than the cost of our original test car.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2022
  • As tin gets scarcer, users with a pressing need for the metal bid up the price, sending a strong signal to all users of tin: Economize!
    — Megan McArdle, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • Still, those inflows have helped bid up the market to one of its priciest levels in history.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Historically low rates are one reason buyers have been able to bid up the cost of housing so much in the last year.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • King dollar is living up to its name in recent weeks as investors ditch risk-assets, and bid up the safe-haven dollar.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Today, they're being bid up as investors ponder, wait a second, there isn't yet a wallop of bad news, so why not buy the dip?
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Part of the reason is high mortgage rates prevented buyers from bidding up the cost of housing.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • For much of the pandemic, mortgage rates below 3% enabled buyers to bid up housing to new heights.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • If blacks were earning less than whites with the same skills, black wages would be bid up by profit-maximizing entrepreneurs.
    — WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Bidders register and can bid up to four times the assessed value of a property up for auction.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2024
  • They all got clobbered when day traders and Reddit users bid up the price and forced shorters to cover their positions, driving the stock’s price up still higher.
    — Gordon Russell, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • That may be changing, as investors bid up protective options that would pay off sooner, and in the event of smaller market swings.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • From Italy to Poland, the continent has started to bid up the market to secure cargoes, although at prices surpassing those seen at the peak of last winter.
    — Ann Koh, Bloomberg.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Oregon has more open jobs than unemployed people, forcing companies to bid up wages to bring in staff.
    — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2022
  • As a result, some banks have bid up each other's yield offerings to attract customers, Hamrick said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In an economy running hot, employers face shortages of workers and must bid up their wages to attract staff.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Without a large housing stock to begin with, available listings got siphoned off pretty quickly as out of state buyers bid up the prices.
    — Michael Braga, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Some of the hottest weather on record lit a fire under coal prices in 2021 as power plants around the world bid up deliveries to keep air conditioners running.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Well, one of the big reasons is because traders bid up prices after Russia cut off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022
  • Investors have recently bid up some high-profile IPOs in their first trading sessions.
    — WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
  • At the same time, the retailer has become a favorite of meme stock traders, retail investors who bid up the shares of undervalued companies.
    — Lauren Hirsch, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Many tech stocks also got bid up recently on expectations for big profit growth far in the future.
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Buyers bid up prices the most in Westminster, which saw 29.3% of homes go for a premium to list price, followed by Lakewood, Thornton and Aurora.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Bed Bath & Beyond’s shares have been on a roller coaster this year as investors bet on its future and bid up the stock after activist investor Ryan Cohen disclosed a stake.
    — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Foss Motors has a double donation tree where the dealership will match the buyer’s bid up to $2,000 to be donated to a charity of the buyer’s choosing.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021

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