Examples of 'up sticks' in a sentence

Meaning of "up sticks"

Up sticks: Informal phrase meaning to leave a place or move away quickly
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  • To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.
  • To prepare to move; to pack up; to go and live in a different place.

How to use "up sticks" in a sentence

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They will pick up sticks ifl lift my headgear.
Seven little soldiers chopping up sticks.
Pick up sticks in the morning.
You could make a new game of pick up sticks.
A car engineer can up sticks and turn into a software engineer.
The rational response to such divergent economic fortunes is to up sticks.
Perhaps one day we will be able to up sticks and move up there.
We only pick up sticks that have fallen or prune the lower limbs.
Not that we are the only animals capable of picking up sticks.
Pick up sticks.
They were free to gather food and pick up sticks and bones.
Got to pick up sticks against another man?
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks.
You do not have to up sticks to Africa to see them.
I do not think the Apostle was ever more apostolic than when he picked up sticks.

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He picks up sticks.
I think they're about ready to pull up sticks.
Do you remember pick up sticks when we were kids?
Seven little Indians Chopping up sticks.
Why does man got to pick up sticks against another man?
While foragers, such as you just walk around and pick up sticks.
She 's only decided to up sticks and set sail.
I know, you just get settled in a place and you have to up sticks.
Why did you really up sticks and move here so quickly? So.
He and Betty had no other choice than to up sticks to Australia.
She 's only decided to up sticks and set sail for the South of France.
Then I set about pulling up sticks.
You pick up sticks and you shift. Every time you take on a new project.
So how come he did not just up sticks and leave?
Pick up sticks after lunch, then.
I have got an awful lot of work to get through, I can not just up sticks now.
Why did you really up sticks and move here so quickly? Hmm . So.
Two and four are six, pick up sticks.
But can I just up sticks like that?
We're happy so I'm not sure why we should up sticks.
Jd five, six, pick up sticks js seven, eight lay them straight.
Or didn't find enough, and then picked up sticks and left.
Jd five, six, pick up sticks pd three, four, knock at the door.
Next thing I know, this crazy psycho chick shows up sticks a knife in my face!
Oh . - Pick up sticks in the morning.
I needed to make and I came here . So I picked up sticks and made the change that.
Last weekend, they killed a man, um, for picking up sticks.
She's only decided to up sticks and set sail - for the South of France. - When?
Maybe I'll also pick up sticks.
Fugax! -While foragers, such as you… just walk around and pick up sticks.
Immigration, Europeans up sticks.
They did not, however, pick up sticks.
When i was six, i picked up sticks *.

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