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well up

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Example Sentences

"I don't want to get into this," Jill says, and her eyes well up with tears.

You may be sure that the color will "come down" a little anyhow, so keep the pitch well up.

The chest was broad and deep, the shoulders square and the head held well up, his nose being finely adapted for good respiration.

Paul de Gery knew this through Joyeuse, who was now a stock-broker's accountant and well up in the doings on the Bourse.

In one of these dark recesses the wall was pierced, well up toward the Carey street end.

The troops of Brigadier Wilkinson were well up in support, and under cover of the fire of our fieldpieces and horse-artillery.

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On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to well up, such as: accumulate, add to, balloon, bloat, bulge, and enlarge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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