How to Use pair up in a Sentence

pair up

verb
  • Rarely does one find a jeans guy paired up with a workout partner.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Pick your pair up in one of eight in-stock colors, including blue, beige, and red.
    — Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • In a recoupling, George and Mica were paired up.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 7 June 2026
  • Scoop a pair up in one, two, or eight different colors for as little as $16.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
  • Heavy-duty gloves, paired up on polished surfaces or drooping from metal racks, tend to stand in for hands.
    — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 23 June 2026
  • Lemon and mustard pair up to cut through the creamy sauce, studded with ground chicken, carrots, and celery.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Leather sneakers like this on-sale pair up the fashion ante and are durable enough to guarantee multi-season wear.
    — Cheryl Wagemann, InStyle, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Keyser appeared to pair up with contestant Zach Georgiou.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • That being that without the botanicals of gin, the vermouth has little to play with in the glass when paired up with just vodka.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Not to mention the Lost Planet series of games, so this kind of pairing up is not at all new for mecha games.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • Wednesday wasn't the first time Aniston and Kudrow paired up for Actors on Actors.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • Wait, wasn’t the original happy ending supposed to have our protagonist pairing up with his son?
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Daraxonrasib solves the problem by pairing up with a protein called cyclophilin A inside cells.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 6 May 2026
  • BrandSpark International and Newsweek paired up to find the brands and grocery stores shoppers trust.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 May 2026
  • But the most chaotic sketch was saved for later in the night, where the duo pair up again to portray a principal and teacher attempting to school an unruly class of students.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2026
  • As the writers are setting up their departure, Teddy and Owen got a lot of screen time as the two were paired up on a medical case for the first time this season.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This year, after the death of a few penguins from old age or illness, the zoo secured approval to pair up penguin parents, said curator Quinn Brown.
    — CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • Black paired up with Marcello Hernández to play martial arts instructors who teach unorthodox self-defense methods.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The father and son strongmen have frequently paired up to train together and have been spotted rehearsing the elegant poses that made Schwarzenegger a star.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Despite their outright tension, the two get paired up on an undercover assignment involving arms dealers and a terrible gold chain for Pride.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The electrons form a structure, pairing up and filling orbitals from lowest to highest energy, with each orbital requiring a different number of pairs.
    — Chris Lee, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • In the premiere, safe contestants are tasked with pairing up their peers for head-to-head elimination matches, adding an element of strategy to what’s otherwise a test of their kitchen skills.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The two companies have paired up and Ondas will use Palantir's capabilities to support its autonomous drone platforms .
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • With a population of just 330,000, the risk of pairing up with someone genetically similar to you is high.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Your 11th House of Friendship pairs up with your 3rd House of Chatter as talkative Mercury trines lucky Jupiter.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Most of the crowd on Monday was gray-haired and already paired up; this was also true at Brooks’s previous three lectures at Yale this spring, which were later streamed on YouTube.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • As a result, Chicago Pride Hockey created a new-to-hockey program to pair up new players like Tran with more experienced members.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 21 Feb. 2026
  • After unboxing 20,000 shirts, the rest of the staff paired up in different sections around the area, with one putting the shirts on the seats and the other following behind and straightening them out.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Joan Murphy Bowie, a first-time pet foster parent, was paired up with 7-month-old Shy, the rescue dog, earlier this year through the Brown Dog Coalition.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Dumpings can happen by elimination, by public vote—every week or so, viewers can choose their favorite islanders or pick who a new bombshell should pair up with—or, more diabolically, by the other islanders’ selection.
    — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026

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