What is "shows up"

Usage examples of "shows up".

You meet dates at the mall so you don't give your parents a stroke when your date shows up with tattoos and tongue studs.

Mooner is like a goofy stray kitten that shows up for a bowl of kibble once in a while.

When someone is accused of a crime, Vinnie gives the court a cash bond, the court releases the accused until trial, and Vinnie hopes to God the accused shows up for court.

Vanadium never shows up at your door in fabulous drag with a rental tuxedo in your size and invites you to go out dancing with it in exclusive nightclubs into the wee hours of the morning.

Another dragon enthusiast shows up with a burnt finger and attributes it to a rare physical manifestation of the dragon's fiery breath.

Then the father of a missing girl shows up to beg Jess to find his daughter.

In front of the scenes, before the camera, this gigantic love affair with Ufe shows up as a deep-textured affection between the characters which lends an uncanny air of reality to them as people.

Every grifter I know shows up there regularly, to find out what's going down, coming off, falling together.

Evidence that this is a space map and flight manual shows up in all the other undamaged segments, too.

Not half an hour later, some twenty-five-year-old American guy with a ponytail shows up and has a brief audience with Randy.

Part of the Wraiths are put in a boarding party to capture the Super Star Destroyer (Razor's Kiss) before Zsinj shows up to escort it out.

The idea of knowing the rules of the game, especially of a sexual nature, shows up often in reference to the Wife.