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puts up

vb. (en-third-person singular of: put up)

Usage examples of "puts up".

She's stuck it out this long because she puts up with nothing and on exceptionally bad days she helps herself to combat pay from the petty cash.

Silent over a little glass of goldwater -- which only city people drink in these parts -- miller Matern puts up an identical keg.

Jimmy Black hits the deck pretty hard, but quickly gets to one knee, then jumps to his feet at the count of five, the referee counts the customary eight and puts up three fingers.

Shaftoe puts up with it until Frick socks him pretty hard in the mouth and gives him a bloody lip.

The Rogues are quickly assembled, as are a commando team and General Salm's Aggressor wing, even as Borsk Fey'yla puts up some stiff resistance -- why get their best pilots killed to save this scum?

Sirhan, preoccupied with maintaining an umbrella of utility fog above his gleaming pate, puts up with being manhandled.