show up

Example Sentences

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“They bring friends and colleagues. They show up in a blizzard.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The scale of the industry continues to show up in South Korea's export figures too.

From BBC

When all remaining Jews in Sosnowiec were ordered to report to a stadium in August 1942, many of them showed up “as if they were going to a picnic,” Gastfriend wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he said real commitment comes when people show up in person for training.

From BBC

While the dominant culture seems, yet again, obsessed with appetite suppression, I am rediscovering appetite: earned appetite, physical appetite, the kind that shows up after exertion and politely demands to be honored.

From Salon