How to Use sum up in a Sentence

sum up

verb
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  • So, to sum up: Of the top 11 teams in the rankings, five come from the SEC.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • This whole process is summed up by the title of the EP, Kismet.
    — Scott Huver, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
  • This picture sums up this man’s life over the last decade.
    — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2024
  • For her, that motto continues to sum up the ethos of the event.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • That about sums up South’s play at today’s four spades.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • After Sunday’s game, Harbaugh tried to find the words to sum up the loss.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • As a kid, that pretty much summed up back-to-school season for me.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • Twenty cities is far too few to sum up all the world’s beauty.
    — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2024
  • All that makes trying to sum up the lessons of the recall a tall order.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Intriguing — that might be the best way to sum up Alexander.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
  • That seems to sum up the weird black magic of this musical.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2021
  • That's the best word to sum up my October home favorites.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
  • To sum up the point here, Oregon picked off Rising twice and got nothing out of it.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
  • In the first paragraph, attempt to sum up the person’s life in a way that tells a story.
    — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Her tweets sum up how a lot of people have felt for much of the year —that a recession is inevitable.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Easy on the eye, with technical chops to match: this warm, winter-ready vest sums up all the key hallmarks of The North Face.
    — Laura Holt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • What's the first thing that pops into your head to sum up your six seasons on Better Call Saul?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Which pretty much sums up the challenge for all stores.
    — Nikki Baird, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • This story to me has always summed up the power of white supremacy: Choose a life of bondage or refuse and limp.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • There was no way to sum up what went wrong in the kind of quotable quip for which so many senators seemed to be fishing.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In a news release, the plaintiff’s attorneys summed up their case as three-pronged.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The simplest way to sum up the feeling of visiting Cannes in the Fall is by peeking at the poster for this year’s Regates Royale.
    — J.q. Louise, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Owens said there is not one word to sum up the frantic feeling of scrambling to find food for a baby.
    — Fox News, 14 May 2022
  • This is the time of year when media outlets run those types of stories — the kind that sum up loss and place numbers in context.
    — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Hart's five-point burst over just two seconds summed up a first half of defensive highs and lows for Xavier.
    — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Two plays summed up the first 11-on-11 and they were actually run plays.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Like so many living artists, Meisel may be reluctant to see his work summed up and put aside.
    — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The justice tried to sum up the factors that would go into his decision.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Ghesquière’s new silhouette, elaborated across the garments of his first shows, had the effect of summing up the fashion of the past decade and setting the course for the one to come.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
  • To sum up, Sling TV — a more robust offering than Venu for about $17 more per month — has been losing subscribers for five years and never got more than 2.7 million as its peak.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024

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