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use up
verb
- to finish (a supply); consume completely
- to exhaust; wear out
Example Sentences
He then counseled me not to use up my “remaining days” fretting over Mia.
Or people use up $93.45 of a $100 gift card at the Gap, and then neglect to use the remaining $6.55.
Bruschetta and crostini are rustic foods, invented centuries ago as a way to use up stale bread.
He would use up the White House liquor having nightcaps with the leaders and key votes of BOTH parties.
This is an admission from Stephenson that Trevithick's patent boiler was the best in use up to about 1828.
So your flying column must start with fat horses, and use up their reserve of flesh, arriving at the end with skeletons.
You may use up a good deal of seed in experimenting, but that will not matter.
Of course we don't want to use up too much of the fancy stuff.
I don't want to use up all our rifle shot, but seems to me there's room inside this thing for a lot more.
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