rack up
Example Sentences
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Missing a payment or carrying a balance can also mean racking up steep interest charges that backfire on attempts to game the system.
It was not even close to enough to pay for the half-million in fees she said she’d racked up, primarily from going to doctors.
From Los Angeles Times
The week the movie soundtrack climbed to No. 1 on the albums chart, Billboard reported that it racked up more than 141 million streams across all its songs.
Jamie Roberts is no stranger to an adrenaline-filled work environment after a glittering rugby career in which he racked up 94 caps for Wales .
From BBC
The point is that it reminds us of our own agency, and even on our hardest days we usually manage to rack up some scores.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
