measure up
Example Sentences
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Doesn’t exactly measure up to the enormity of the classics, does it?
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
In hindsight, he said, the story of Rico, a teenager trying to measure up to the demands of fatherhood while being ill-equipped and lacking maturity to navigate the situation constructively, carried personal undertones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The first is that nobody should call our food system “broken,” the all-purpose label that armchair revolutionaries slap on any aspect of the messy human condition that doesn’t measure up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
But it is possible to look at the general trend and how the nations measure up to their own targets.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
A gallery was such a huge challenge that it didn’t take long to see the ways in which an individual officer didn’t measure up.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
