How to Use bear up in a Sentence

bear up

verb
  • Here’s the bear up in a tree in the backyard of a home in San Anselmo.
    — Lauren Hernández, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
  • In Asia, such farms make extra money by selling tickets to tourists who want to see the bears up close.
    — National Geographic, 19 May 2016
  • The rock would then bear up much of the ice's weight, keeping it from deforming as easily.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2018
  • But unless there was federal force there, the numbers didn’t bear up.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
  • In other words, the Central-ist who bears up best to the grind of going 87-75 just might emerge victorious.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
  • The annual bear hunt in the state typically involves packs of hounds with GPS collars that chase the bear up trees.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Rent has become a giant lever of pain for millions of people who often are in the worst position to bear up under it.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Oleg Krashevsky, a local wildlife expert who was able to see the bear up-close, said the polar bear also appeared to have vision problems.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2019
  • Deprived of the richness of the text, the movie’s concept and substance shift toward spectacle, which is exactly where Wright’s artistry doesn’t bear up.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Musicals sometimes bear up to this treatment, and may even benefit from it, because good singers cannot help but fill their voices to the brim.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • It's been a consistent phenomenon for folks born up until the 1900s.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • As part of the analysis, researchers roll immobilized polar bears onto a net, attach the net to a hoist and then lift the bear up for a measurement of its body mass.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 June 2022
  • The average reduction in gestational length is about 6.1 days, the study found, but in some cases, babies were born up to two weeks early.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Mexicans have to hope that a young population bears up better than aging Italy.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Some argue the key difference from earlier refugee crises is that the Ukrainian refugees are mostly women and children, but that doesn’t bear up to scrutiny.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2022
  • No parent wishes pain upon their child; but every parent wants the next generation to be able to bear up under its inevitable burden.
    — Amory Rowe Salem and Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Silly season is where silly stuff happens, stuff that tests the bounds of statistical reason but bear up to detailed analysis.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Big banks have done nicely nevertheless, borne up by America’s long economic expansion and by Mr Trump’s broad corporate-tax cut at the end of 2017.
    — The Economist, 15 Oct. 2019
  • As the first anniversary of the Oct. 27 attack nears, bearing up has become especially difficult.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • But the generalization doesn’t bear up to broader scrutiny.
    — Francis Fukuyama, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • If the universe can bear up under the weight of so many movie remakes of various Peter Parkers being bitten by slightly different radioactive spiders, there’s space enough for a few more good biographies.
    — Sam Negus, National Review, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The University of California, San Francisco, has a top-tier, high-resource hospital that is transparent about its policy of offering only comfort care for babies who are born up to the first day of the 23rd week, down to the hour.
    — Sarah Digregorio, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • More broadly, the changing shape of the game—its ever-increasing affinity, borne up by the analytics revolution, for home runs and strikeouts—is a matter of daily conversation.
    — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 4 June 2018
  • Another recent worldwide study found that the mental health of people was surprisingly resilient during the pandemic—suggesting, perhaps, that kindness helped others bear up in difficult times.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Don’t participate in any activities that will not bear up under close examination.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2020
  • To bear up against nature’s indifference can be invigorating and also corrective.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021

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