How to Use choose up in a Sentence

choose up

verb
Definition of choose upnext
  • To bring all this out, and to have us choose up sides again — no.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Voters are asked to choose up to five people in the race.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The girls can choose up to three pieces in the jewelry and makeup rooms to finish their look.
    — Christen A. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • For $5 a month, Amazon Prime customers can choose up to eight items of clothing to have shipped to them to try on.
    — Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Visitors can choose up to two of these per day, and their price varies daily.
    — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In New York’s mayoral primary, voters will be allowed to choose up to five.
    — Sarah Almukhtar, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Each team can choose up to five players, and can only take one from any team’s unprotected list.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Instead of having the captains choose up sides on national TV, why not do it on the court, playground style, just before tipoff?.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Available in a variety of styles, choose up to four headshots to display in a fashionable foot tribute.
    — Sarah Lemire, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Voters can choose up to four people, ranking them in order of preference.
    — Jim Morris, Star Tribune, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Byrd advises clients to choose up to four colors in the same color family and paint samples of 2 feet by 2 feet on all four elevations of the home.
    — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • In Missouri, as the condemned, Johnson is allowed to choose up to five witnesses, but state law barred his daughter from being one of them because of her age.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 27 Nov. 2022
  • This happens, in part, because those news organizations that haven’t chosen up sides — those that want to serve all Americans — fear being charged with bias.
    — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Diners can choose up to four breakfast items including classics like buttermilk pancakes, eggs any style, bacon strips, fruit or hash browns.
    — Fox News, 9 Nov. 2015
  • Now, customers can choose up to 25 items from a limited list to be delivered by a dedicated Favor runner.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2020
  • This solid gold nameplate necklace comes in two chain lengths and the option to choose up to 10 letters for a personalized piece of jewelry that will be cherished forever.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Voters can choose up to three candidates in their preferential order.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Customers can also choose up to eight favorite destinations and the app will continually monitor those places for last-minute deals.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2021
  • Otherwise, opt for one of their dozen concoctions varying from plain and simple to New York-style and even vegan or delight in building your own pie and choose up to three ingredients, with no more than two meats per pie.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • New Yorkers will have to contend with ranked-choice voting for the first time: Instead of casting a single vote for a single candidate in most races, voters will be allowed to choose up to five, ranking them in order of preference.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • Each state legislature can choose up to two representatives to honor in the Capitol’s collection.
    — Aaron Morrison, ajc, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Each state legislature can choose up to two representatives to honor in the Capitol's collection.
    — NBC News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Not for the last time, America chose up sides over a mercurial, technically ill-informed president with a flair for improvisational decision making.
    — James Grant, WSJ, 28 May 2018

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