sent up

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Paula and Tesco then organised for the last of the bananas to be sent up by plane to North Ronaldsay, the county's northernmost island, on Tuesday morning.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Those notes had been sent up their chain of command at the Pentagon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Political cartoonists have bravely sent up the powers-that-be for centuries.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

A second partial collapse of the tower about one and a half hours later sent up further billowing clouds of dust.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

“Hark!” said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the chimney corner before being sent up to bed; “was that great guns, Joe?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens