How to Use stack up in a Sentence

stack up

verb
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  • In the first game, Rochester stacked up their six runs first.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 29 May 2024
  • Click through the slideshow to see how the AI ads stack up against the real-world event.
    — Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Here’s how this all stacks up to booze, heart-health-wise.
    — Ali Finney, SELF, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Here's what to know about the hottest places and how Arizona stacks up.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
  • How does that stack up to great teams from the franchise’s past?
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024
  • Check out the full breakdown here of where your city stacks up.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So how do the teams in the SEC stack up after all have played at least one game?
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
  • It is stacked up — feet high — against homes in Utah and Nevada.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Stones were stacked up against a door where the victim was trapped inside.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The complaints stacked up to the point that OpenAI acknowledged it in a tweet and promised a fix.
    — Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • How will the Utah Utes stack up in the college football landscape this year?
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • Here's how housing market stacks up against the markets across the U.S.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Here's a closer look at how some of our tallest buildings stack up.
    — Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2024
  • The Lyriq’s features, performance and price stack up well against all of them.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
  • How does women’s health care in the U.S. stack up to other nations?
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
  • What makes this one, Holbrook’s Clement Mansell, stack up with some of the greats from the Justified rogues gallery?
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • And the political tumult stacks up all the way to the United States.
    — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As the acquittals stacked up, one of them left midway through the verdict.
    — Paul J. Weber and Juan A. Lozano The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Kansas — Are the injuries stacking up before the first week of the season?
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But adding up these 20 items will give you some idea on how these stores stack up on average.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The question, though, is if the roster he’s built is able to stack up against the other AL East clubs across a 162-game season.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2023
  • For a look at how a state's cases and deaths in the past week stack up to cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic, see the chart below.
    — Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Take note of how your snacks stack up and what adjustments may be needed.
    — Leeann Weintraub, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s how the big-name actors (as directors) stacked up.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Here's how the Cardinals' roster stacks up for the Week 1 game against the Commanders.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • These are stories that people need to hear because still the -isms keep stacking up.
    — ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Lately he’s been heating up again and his full-season totals stack up well against some of the league’s best.
    — Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
  • Read more Ed Lab: See how your school district stacks up in math, science, reading.
    — Tcrain, al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • How did the motorcycle ride stack up against the days spent sailing and flying?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • So how does the competition stack up to the viral original?
    — Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 6 Aug. 2024

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