Sentence examples similar to this measured up from inspiring English sources

Will this measure up?

I decided to see how this menu measured up against the Thanksgiving feasts Twain's guests would have enjoyed six days earlier.

Peter had originally reviewed the film in 1959 and so we both wanted to see how this iteration measured up to the classic.

We got our stop watches out to see how it measured up in this Parliament's contrition stakes.

The results measured up to this point presented a static profile of proteins that stimulated IgG and IgM responses.

"Let's get you measured up".

Nothing measured up.

Yeah, a big, scary monster descends on an arcade, but there's no way that this story measures up to most of the films on this list.

"This one measures up to that," Jackson said.

This owl, measuring up to 48 cm (19 inches) in length, is the largest tropical American owl.

We cannot, alas, ask Nelson Mandela how this event measures up to what he had in mind 15 years ago.