How to Use join up in a Sentence

join up

phrasal verb
  • Block and Bales joined up by the time of the group’s third album in 1992.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The park contains wild elephant herds that Charley may join up with.
    — Gerald Imray, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Those in that pool are less willing to join up than ever.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 18 June 2024
  • The three joined up on Orchard Street, outside one of the walkups that house the museum.
    — Ismail Ibrahim, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Surrounding these two are the shields of houses that joined up on each side.
    — Alexis Nedd, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
  • But Ihor’s brother returned from the war with a spine injury, telling him not to join up.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • That’s one of the Sardaukar, the emperor’s army, who join up with the Harkonnens to take back Arrakis.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024
  • One member joined up after stumbling across the group’s game night.
    — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • In 1981, a couple of local guys started a band and Keith joined up.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Garrity and Wood joined up in mid-April, leasing a 400-square-foot room inside.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2024
  • Lucy joins up with the Ghoul/Cooper on his hunt for Hank, and Maximus survives a grisly bullet wound.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Will Nelson recover from his mystery ailment in time to join up with the tour next week?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2024
  • Many thought the ban would lead ByteDance to remove the program from the Apple and Google app stores, preventing new users from joining up.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
  • At first, words held more sway over Surrealism than images did, but within a few years artists of all stripes had joined up.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • His son died in his absence, his wife divorced him, and Rake joined up with Nic, precipitating the events of Extraction.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
  • The Georgia international will join up with his new team-mates next summer.
    — James Pearce, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Fans then had to wait until the season-two finale to learn that Desmond was once a castaway himself, forced by circumstance to join up with the last vestiges of a world-saving cult.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • His father joined up at the beginning of that fight, at the urging of Iraq’s highest Shiite religious leader.
    — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But Cummings jumped at the opportunity to join up with the Giving Pledge, and to use the attention big gifts can garner to inspire others.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • James joined up with his personal trainer Mike Mancias to create Ladder in 2018.
    — Victoriakhunt, Robb Report, 2 May 2023
  • As many as five different parties (an all-time high) may need to join up to form a majority government.
    — Stan A. Veuger, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The Spanish international has an offer to stay with Sociedad but would be keen to join up with Arteta if an agreement can be reached.
    — James McNicholas, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Popular on Variety When younger brother Donny joined up in 1970, the quartet became a quintet and the name was changed to simply the Osmonds.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Played by Ebony Obsidian, Lena joins up after her sweetheart is killed in action.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But remaining in Chicago in the ’60s seems like a deliberate refusal of joining up.
    — Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That will include being at spring training and instructional league, as well as scouting for the Rockies around his home state of Georgia and joining up with the team during road trips to the East Coast.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Endrick was the only Brazilian on the tour at first after choosing to join up with the squad earlier than his team-mates who had also taken part in the Copa America.
    — Guillermo Rai, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
  • This cold river joins up with other falling water—more underwater cataracts—and crawls through the depths of the ocean, following the topography of the seabed, all the way to Antarctica.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • Of the 5,000 prisoners recently released, most are trying to flee to family in the calmer countryside, but plenty will stay in the capital to join up with their old gangs.
    — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That insight directed attention to the place where chromosomes 9 and 22 joined up, revealing the molecular source of the problem.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023

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