How to Use up till in a Sentence

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  • Don’t want to stay up till midnight on the last day of the year?
    — Kim Cook, Chron, 28 Dec. 2020
  • And those drawings are in many of the Off Color concepts right up till the end.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Corey would stay up till 3:30 a.m. or so just to place an order for cooking oil.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The Wings hadn't offered much up till the third period, with Ville Husso carrying the workload in net.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Because up till the 1800s, people hadn’t really been living in cities.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 May 2023
  • So the prevailing theory up till now has been that the evolution of katydid ears took some turns.
    — Stephanie Pain, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
  • All the previous seasons up till now have been devoted to hip-hop or R&B albums, as well.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
  • In addition to the attention-grabbing title, the song had perhaps the closest thing to a pop hook to be found in her oeuvre up till then.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • But the fact that the game is taking place in the hometown of one of the teams, the Los Angeles Rams, means that strong local demand is likely to make prices stay higher right up till the end.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2022
  • An obvious example of this relates to the IAVI vaccine, which is the only one of the three not to have been tested in people up till now.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Nov. 2022
  • After analyzing that study and its own data up till then, WHO decided to drop both from the study.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Yes, the bass booming from club-grade speakers kept him and his wife up till dawn, and yes, he was regularly forced to clean up puke in the stairwell on Sunday mornings.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 July 2022
  • Abortions in England, Wales and Scotland are allowed up till 24 weeks of pregnancy.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The money that has been here up till now is old money, generational money; think the Bush family.
    — Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Dealing with that ballbuster Miss Claudia at check-in, sweeping the room for tree nuts, staying up till seven, eight at night learning numbers . . .
    — Teddy Wayne, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Taylor Swift fans stayed up till midnight on September 20 to hear the singer's latest news, delivered via TikTok.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 21 Sep. 2022
  • From the beginning years up till now, dogs are accepted from animal control and from locals and visitors who find stray dogs.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2023
  • Yet — up till now, at least — both Shirkey and Chatfield have rejected the proposition that state legislators might intervene to supplant the will of Michigan voters.
    — Ian MacDougall, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The significance of this is that up till now, the amount of carbon released to generate the PETM has been calculated from the aftereffects of the emissions—things like changes in ocean chemistry recorded in fossils of plankton that lived at the time.
    — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But that is the vision that has remained with us up till the 20th century when the great identity crisis of the nation-state drew on the history of our ancestors and bent it to their own needs for order and superiority.
    — Lorenzo Cecioni, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2023
  • Megan Park's directorial debut, an emotional wrecking ball of a movie that doesn't let up till its gut-punch ending, is an essential watch for parents and kids growing up in this worrisome time.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Facial recognition technology is not widely employed in Africa, partly because the technology available up till now has not been adept at identifying and differentiating the faces of Black people.
    — Audrey Donkor, Quartz Africa, 17 Sep. 2020

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