ring up
Example Sentences
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Did he think I’d asked her to come—left my post and rushed to ring up my movie-star friend so she could watch me march around in bathing suits?
From Literature
"We had lots of people ringing up, asking whether this was true", something the "older generations" had been arguing with each other about, he said.
From BBC
"When I rang up in October, I gave them my P60 figures and they could have just calculated the refund, and given it to me in October," she said.
From BBC
Cars lined up and Swig employees walked from customer to customer, scribbling orders on sticky notes and ringing up sales with a Casio register.
It could ring up $11 billion in peak yearly sales, analysts project.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
