color up
Example Sentences
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Currently, a bit more than a quarter of the group’s staff are people of color, up from 18 percent in 2017.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023
Her private secretary, Martin Charteris, later recalled finding the new monarch at her desk, “sitting erect, no tears, color up a little, fully accepting her destiny.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 8, 2022
Racing mode: The light bars will occasionally divide into smaller color segments to send pulsing waves of color up and down, which seems nicely matched when fast-moving objects speed by you in a game.
From The Verge • May 2, 2022
As an example, the Arizona Republic said that in July, 38% of their journalists were people of color, up from 20% five years earlier.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021
Still, it was the only important body of water within forty miles, a source of pride, nice to look at on bright summer days, and later that evening it would color up with fireworks.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
