count up

Example Sentences

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"We need patience, for example, when we bend our fingers, we have to count up to 100," she said.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

You could count up the faces on the event poster, but that leaves out the performers who agreed to do the festival but were disinvited, such as Tim Dillon.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2025

With tourists comes tourist shops, and BBC Scotland News walked the length of the Royal Mile to count up a total of 72 stores, selling everything from kilts to Highland cow fridge magnets.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

Metraux, at the University of Delaware, said the new method will likely capture more people, but making changes opens the count up to criticism if people don’t like the numbers produced.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Gog’s ancestors couldn’t even count up to two, and they certainly did not need zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife