How to Use worked up in a Sentence

worked up

adjective
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Synonyms for worked upnext
  • What is she so worked up about?
  • He got all worked up over the football game.
  • After feeling the theme of the song emerge, Nashashibi worked up the courage to send the song to D’Nur.
    — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Sacks got worked up and lost his cool and ended the call.
    — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 11 June 2020
  • Months passed before Davis worked up the courage to hunt.
    — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
  • In 2014, Becky Davis was fresh out of the Coast Guard and worked up the nerve to audition for a play.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • And why do people on both the left and the right, Latino and not, get so worked up about it?
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The first reason fans shouldn't get worked up is because the odds are low.
    — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2021
  • Six weeks later, Jackman worked up the courage to ask her out.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2020
  • The men had a fire built within 10 minutes, by which point Trevor worked up the nerve to ask the question.
    — Jr Sullivan, Field & Stream, 23 Dec. 2020
  • As the players rushed off the field, some fans pelted them with boos, but that’s as worked up as the chilly crowd got.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Stoops used the bye to reinforce what worked up to that point and reclaim good habits.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Crews worked up to 12 hours a day to move thousands of tons of the waste to a city landfill less than a mile away, Roberts said.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Will Smith, Dodgers Hard to get too worked up over the No. 2 snub on a team with four selections.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
  • But Fitzgerald wasn't the one who got the most worked up about the situation.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
  • But here’s what all UT alums (even I get worked up here) should care about coming out of all of this.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Rhodes worked up to take the lead on Lap 47, but not without surviving a scare.
    — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2020
  • Once, Liliana worked up her nerve to ask for more money.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Sheldon Inge had worked up front, while Cortlandt took care of business in the kitchen.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Then, two years ago, Thompson finally worked up the nerve to flirt with him.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
  • We get worked up about what people will think about us, but the truth is people don’t think about us at all.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2022
  • He's given us some really good years and kind of developed and worked up through the ranks and done the right things.
    — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • At the start of the pandemic, Triumph Foods employees worked up to 10 hours a day, crammed side by side.
    — USA Today, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Plenty of stuff to get worked up about today, Mobsters.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2022
  • As for new music, Allen said there are plenty of songs worked up with the plan being a 2023 release date.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Think long term and stay open minded, and avoid shutting down new ideas from people who may have just worked up the courage to pitch a thought for the first time.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • When Wiley worked up the courage to tell her mother, her mother went into shock.
    — Sarah Treleaven, ELLE, 27 July 2022
  • Finally, Andy brings up the topic that must be what’s had Erika so worked up all along.
    — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Last year, Gallegos embraced jogging three or four times a week, and worked up to a five-plus-mile run—er, jog.
    — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • On another note — now that your faithful puck chronicler is getting worked up — all these franchises have too many different sweaters.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023

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