How to Use follow up on (something) in a Sentence

follow up on (something)

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  • But the show’s second act can’t follow up on all the ideas thrown out in the first.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There are a couple of things from my boss to follow up on with my team.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Grealy struggled to follow up on the promise of her first book.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Co-host George Stephanopoulos had to follow up on the plane point, however.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
  • Hong Kong dispatched a task force to Thailand this week to follow up on their cases.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Did the Fed’s board fail to follow up on noted weaknesses?
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The team of nieces, none of whom live in Saskatoon, have been making frequent visits there for years to follow up on Aunt Alex’s case.
    — Anna Turning, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The chief said he’s also gotten a call from the National Weather Service to follow up on the event.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 July 2024
  • Police noted on April 20 that the deadline passed and there appeared to be nothing to follow up on.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Commit to making one phone call to one older person who lives alone and follow up on it.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In baseball, Stanford will be looking to follow up on last year's trip to the College World Series.
    — Paul Newberry, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The researchers wanted to follow up on that earlier work to see what factors might drive RNA editing in cephalopods.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 8 June 2023
  • There are plenty of promising places left for the show to go in the event that FX gives it a second season to follow up on the finale’s assorted cliffhangers.
    — Time, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Detectives ignored and failed to follow up on leads that suggested Solorio was not their man.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • However, Peterson's attorney at the time, who is no longer involved with the case, did not follow up on the answer, the judge said.
    — Michael Lundin, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The answer is to follow up on these accusations, find their sources and judge the situation on the merits alone.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • The attorneys suggested police hadn’t done enough to follow up on those leads.
    — al, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Hudak told the Herald that Castro reported the incident to him about a week later and that by then, there wasn’t much to follow up on.
    — Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Months have passed since the work began, so The Enquirer wanted to follow up on behalf of travelers.
    — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
  • There’s also the question of how and when Adidas will attempt to follow up on its current sneaker hits and keep its fashion buzz.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2024
  • Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq were asked by the league to follow up on developments.
    — Mohamed Wagdy and Kareem Chehayeb, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq were asked by the league to follow up on developments.
    — Mohamed Wagdy and Kareem Chehayeb, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
  • Among them: Police failed to follow up on a social media flyer about Brooklyn Day.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
  • As part of the settlement, the agency must implement new policies and software to better track and follow up on reports of abuse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Detective Blanke said he got assigned to the case in 2018, shortly after the social media campaign began, to follow up on the new tips that had come in.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Durbin and Blumenthal said the GAO inquiry would follow up on a similar probe in 2011 that called for changes to better protect patients.
    — Haajrah Gilani, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The group said that the university failed to follow up on many complaints, and the consequences for some of those actions was insufficient.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 26 June 2024
  • The discussion, and the follow up on X, pretty much went viral over Thanksgiving weekend.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • That’s a hot commodity, and not easy to get, but the team is planning to follow up on their observations as soon as possible.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • Other cash flow tips: Invoice promptly and follow up on delinquent payers.
    — Rohit Arora, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024

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