think up

How To Use think up In A Sentence

• I don't want to go tonight but I can't think up a good excuse.
• They thought … that it sufficed for a prince … to think up a sharp reply, to write a beautiful letter, to demonstrate wit and readiness in saying and words, to know how to weave a fraud … to conduct himself avariciously and proudly, to rot in idleness, to give military rank by favor … Winner Takes All
• Following me at the same legal speed, he was puled over for "being in the wrong lane", "speeding" and every other excuse that the police could think up. Payment method on loot brough in to Mexico
• In his letter acknowledging my congratulations on his appointment he expressed the fear that I might think up some defence. Times, Sunday Times
• If you are comfortable with shell scripting and cron (or launchd, for non-dinosaurs) you can probably think up ways to adapt those examples and make it almost seem like the importing is as automagical as it is with. mov files. MacOSXHints.com
• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edgar Watson Howe 
• What I will eschew is mispoona and rapa senza testa and bianca riccia da taglio and whatever else they can think up for me in the catalogues this winter. Jean's Knitting
• She was trying to think up an excuse.
• Enthusiastically receiving the rules and given free rein to be as chauvinistic as they like, the five men meet in the pub to think up some new rules of their own.
• They think up tricksy names, they might even hire an expensive designer to do them a label, and when it comes to the end, their wine is made in the same winery as all their rivals' wines.