How to Use ring up in a Sentence

ring up

verb
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  • Products ring up for less than $18, with most priced at less than $10.
    — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2022
  • Judges can ring up it to three times to save a contestant within the first three rounds.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Giants have been rung up on fastballs 53 times, the eighth-most in the majors, and are watching even more go by early in their at-bats.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • The customer wanted to leave but the employee refused to ring up her purchase and was said to have threatened her.
    — cleveland, 21 May 2021
  • Instant replay showed that Diaz clearly broke the plane and should have been rung up as Kelly’s ninth strikeout of the night.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
  • Nunes was working at the register at the time, prosecutors said, and rang up the $12 order.
    — Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • Nunes rang up the sale, which also included a bag of barbeque chips, spending a total of $12, the statement said.
    — Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • Even though Baltimore held the Texans to a single touchdown last year, Harbaugh knows the Texans can ring up points through the air.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The tour won rave reviews and rang up more than $575 million in ticket sales, according to Billboard.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Wendy’s, which relies on teens to salt fries and ring up orders, added a way for applicants to apply for a job through their smartphones.
    — Paul Wiseman and Joseph Pisani, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2021
  • Its stores and restaurants typically ring up more than $1 billion a year in sales.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • McDowell connected with Nick Marsh for a 60-yard scoring pass on the Panthers’ third play after the break, to ring up a 28-point lead.
    — Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Even if open ice is harder to come by in the playoffs, a six-game drought is substantial for a guy who rang up 46 goals in the regular season.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Quist, owner of The People’s Goods, is teaching her great-niece Montana how to ring up customers on the cash register.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Prices are almost as sweet as the collection itself: Products start as low as $10, and most ring up at under $15.
    — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Some blockbuster names like Adele and Beyoncé still ring up big sales, but even their numbers have eased in the streaming age.
    — Neil Shah, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Plus, the cost of a large tree itself usually rings up at a higher price tag than a smaller counterpart.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Most tacos ring up at about $5, but sizes are larger compared to traditional soft tacos.
    — Chron Staff, Chron, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Many of the steam cleaners that ring up for a lower cost than this one are only handheld and may not work for as many different types of surfaces.
    — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
  • Later, Margaret and Janie suffer as a teen boy at the drugstore rings up their sanitary pads with the languor of a James Bond villain.
    — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And yet New Orleans allowed Minnesota to ring up 63 points at halftime.
    — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Shoppers can also use a touchscreen to ring up merchandise, such as produce, that lacks bar codes.
    — Matt Day, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Air power is extremely expensive, and even older F-16s could ring up a tab in the billions.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Rihanna had a cheeky response when a paparazzi photographer brought the ring up and asked if she was engaged.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 6 May 2022
  • Murray was the Spurs’ leading rebounder, was one of seven players in double figures, and helped the team ring up 27 assists.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Former players sometimes put their rings up for auction.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • And lawyers have rung up millions more in expenses after the settlement was approved.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Call Your Insurance As soon as things have settled down a bit, make sure to ring up your insurance company.
    — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Tipping a barista who has skillfully prepared your fancy latte makes more sense to us than tipping a worker who rings up a can of soda.
    — Nathan B. Warren, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • At the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, as in major grocers throughout the country, cashiers would ring up items by manually entering the price of each on a cash register before computing a final tally.
    — Kovie Biakolo, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024

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