throw up
to give up; abandon, relinquish
to build or construct hastily
to reveal; produce: every generation throws up its own leaders
(also intr) informal to vomit
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How to use throw up in a sentence
What can we do except to throw up our hands in dismay at the baffling nature of life?
Confessions of a Death Camp Collaborator: Claude Lanzmann’s ‘The Last of the Unjust’ | Jimmy So | February 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTZoning boards and city councils often throw up obstacles to expansion.
Getting a Job at Walmart Is Harder than Getting into Harvard | Daniel Gross | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHowever, Thune acknowledged that individual senators had the rights and prerogratives to throw up procedural hurdles.
Republicans throw up procedural obstacles just to gum up the works and run out the clock.
John McCain to the Rescue as Senate Deal Breaks Nominee Logjam | Eleanor Clift | July 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey throw up barriers, like demanding that the company pay higher minimum wages or deal with unions.
Walmart’s Anti-Union Wage Plans Earn a Cold Shoulder From Big Cities | Daniel Gross | July 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the face of such public feeling Massna found nothing for it but to demand a successor and throw up his command.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonYou may go hence if your courage fails you outright; but I'll throw up the bridge and entrench myself within these walls.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniA voice called in good English: "throw up your hands, you d—— fools."
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) | A. G. HalesThus, in Kildare, a farmer who had purchased some distrained cattle, was obliged to throw up his farm and leave the country.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanMy words only prompt you to throw up another earthwork at the point attacked.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona Caird
Other Idioms and Phrases with throw up
Vomit, as in The new drug makes many patients throw up. [First half of 1700s]
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