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"Bring up" in a Sentence (15 examples)
When you're in the basement, can you bring up the paints?
"[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.
Don't bring up politics if you want to have a quiet conversation with that guy.
In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.
‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.
She did well enough bringing up two sons and a daughter on her own.
A short Internet search brought up some amazing details of this story.
Wait a minute while I bring up my computer.
Anyone who's been tasked with bringing up a board knows how trying it is.
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I was very ill today; I kept bringing up everything I ate.
"[…]Mr. Wolfe, I beg you—I beg of you—" I was sure she was going to cry and I didn't want her to. But Wolfe brusquely brought her up: "That's all, Miss Barstow.[…]"
"No," Maeniel shouted, "No!" trying to distract the man, and lunged toward him. The chain on his ankle brought him up short and he fell on his face.
Warner smacked a four over midwicket to bring up his century.
The book [The Gilded Hearse] was brought up on obscenity charges, partly as a result of the gay content, but a New York magistrate dismissed the charges.
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