How to Use live up to in a Sentence

live up to

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  • The food certainly lives up to the hype and the vibe is buzzy.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The problem comes when only the salary lives up to the billing.
    — Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • There ain’t a man in this world could ever live up to my husband.
    — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Now, all that’s left to see is if the new serum lives up to the original.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Pie-in-the-sky fantasies rarely live up to the challenges of the day-to-day world.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 July 2026
  • Many players are hyped, and a few actually live up to the hype.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
  • Trump has publicly called out the world body for not living up to its potential.
    — Farnoush Amiri, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2026
  • By the end of his second season, Arnold hadn’t yet lived up to his first-round status.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • Ever since, the e-commerce giant has struggled to live up to that promise.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
  • He’s been dealing with injury issues and has not exactly lived up to the pre-draft hype.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Carpathian Mountain cake, is a grand Polish cake that lives up to its name.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Aug. 2026
  • But there’s also tragedy, not least in the nation’s failure to live up to its exalted ideals.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
  • Alex Bregman, who hit two home runs against the Mariners, is living up to his big contract.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • That can be doubly true if El Niño lives up to its rainy reputation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The claims are certainly big, but fans guarantee that this shampoo lives up to all of its promises.
    — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 26 June 2026
  • The goal decided a war of attrition after both teams had failed to live up to the hype of the massive match.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • And, yes, Willis, at this very early point in the process, is living up to expectations.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2026
  • After giving the bottle a good shake, the foaming formula lives up to its promise.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Rutschman was once considered one of the top prospects in baseball himself, and mostly lived up to the hype over his first few years in the big leagues.
    — Ian Miller, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • New York — For the first time in a while, Burger King is living up to its name.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But Whitney Leavitt is the breakout among the cast who is truly living up to that goal.
    — Emma Barker Bonomo, Time, 14 July 2026
  • Cech was concerned about living up to the legacy of such a nuanced character, which led to her putting her best foot forward.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • On offense at least, Bregman hasn’t lived up to expectations.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • The products are chic, effective, and live up to their promises, and count Demi Moore as a fan.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • Trump has often criticized the world body, accusing it of not living up to its potential.
    — Farnoush Amiri, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Our job has been making sure everything else lives up to that, from how people get there to what happens between performances.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
  • But just because a book is an obvious choice for adaptation, doesn’t mean that the show will live up to its source material.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
  • The bull lived up to his reputation, bucking Dias off before trampling him in the dirt in five seconds.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • Predicting the weather is always tricky, with even the most solid forecasts sometimes not living up to the hype.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
  • Part of that hesitation was certainly the pressure of living up to his father’s name.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 16 July 2026

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