scare up
Example Sentences
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Which is why I have no doubt that, even as we speak, Jerry Dipoto and Justin Hollander are burning the phone and text lines to see what sort of deal they can scare up.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023
Horror movies “Antlers” and “Last Night in Soho” opened nationwide and struggled to scare up strong ticket sales, leaving last weekend’s champion “Dune” to rule over box office charts again.
From Reuters • Nov. 1, 2021
There, he managed to scare up some chow, but it was pancakes again, “which disappointed me very much,” he wrote.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2020
Rudy, in a last-ditch bid to scare up some new material, tape-records the rhymes, jokes and tall tales of a group of homeless men.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2019
She hovered, “waiting on” for the girl to kick through the fields and scare up the game as Sam would have done.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
