stack up

Example Sentences

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"It didn't quite stack up at all," Follows said.

From BBC

Investors are waiting to see how its first rack-scale solution, Helios, will stack up against Nvidia when it rolls out in the second half of this year.

From MarketWatch

The street looked like a river, and she could see cars and boats stacked up against a flood control gate.

From Literature

His legal battle has been a closely followed test of how the government’s broad foreign-policy powers stack up against First Amendment protections.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Sharon Bates, from the school trust, says jobs were "stacking up" in the final year of the contract, despite repeated requests for repairs.

From BBC