What is "lived up"

Usage examples of "lived up".

He could hardly complain if, in the end, the man lived up to his station.

My father was an officer of the army, and died in a considerable rank: but he lived up to his pay.

I might have taken him, if he had lived up to the promise of such a beginning.

Restive after days on the ship, the dun lived up to his name until Perrin calmed him with a firm hand on the reins and pats to his neck.

Of course, the newspapers of the land lived up to the reactionary policy of the ruling class, and the destroyed socialist press was misrepresented and vilified, while the Black Hundreds were represented as true patriots and saviours of society.

Pretty soon now, if the Iretan prospects lived up to his expectations and he could live off the interest of his credit balance, he’.

Pterodons lived up there somewhere, but on this night they slipped invisibly through the mist or huddled in their nests, rough gray wings enfolding the leathery eggs of their young.

The mine itself was down on the long flat floor of the narrow rift canyon, but it was mostly robotic, and the crew lived up in a plush tent, on the rim overlooking the rift.

Nearly his first action on boarding the shuttle had been to smash a readout as the unfamiliar powered armor lived up to its reputation for strength.

He had lived up to this moment by that blind faith which a dark probity engenders.

The colony on the hilltop plateau had grown: nearly five hundred people lived up here now, and many thousands more in the farmed countryside nearby.

Trance-dance lived up to its name: there was something elementally hypnotic about it.