How to Use buck up in a Sentence

buck up

verb
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  • Kristy and Liz buck up and head to the Delaney’s for tea.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The best way to find out what happened to Uranus is to buck up and send a mission there.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
  • But that was a moment when the United States needed bucking up to say no to a rush to war.
    — Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • Perhaps, though, your best option is to buck up and talk to your roommate.
    — Vanessa Marin, Allure, 9 Aug. 2018
  • After a while, Aeneas had to buck up, accept that Troy was sacked, and found Rome.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The Tigers bucked up, attacked Wade’s replacement and scored 14 points in the final three minutes of the first half.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Forward Draymond Green noticed and told him to buck up.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Ryan Berran passed this buck up at point-blank range during the Buckeye State bow season last year.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The officials were also trying to buck up their own staff.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Will gets asked to dance by a girl and Nancy bucks up Dustin after his classmates reject him.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 July 2019
  • Pence, meanwhile, seemed eager to buck up Moon to take a tougher stance against his northern neighbor.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Even so, in June Mario Draghi, the bank’s boss, promised further stimulus if the economy does not buck up.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2019
  • Arsenal needed to buck up their ideas and find a response.
    — SI.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Eventually, Amelia and Maggie buck up enough courage to step up and be strong for Meredith and her kids.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
  • After bucking up his courage, Joe picked up Jim at his apartment, drove him to their father’s place in Fullerton and knocked on the door, which opened.
    — Gregory Orfalea, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Yuudai bows in sorrow, and Mizuki tells him to buck up and just be more considerate in the future.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The educators who make the decision to buck up, mask-up and show-up are going to make our lives recognizable again.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The virus demanded the latter and Brown endeavored in her address to buck up Oregonians for the final stretch that is likely to last many more months.
    — Hillary Borrud | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2021
  • After raising prices for months, some firms are betting that markdowns will buck up sales and clear inventory.
    — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The ThunderWolves’ defense bucked up on the ensuing possession as well.
    — Wells Dusenbury, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • But the President's attempt to buck up the national psyche and his own political prospects rang rather hollow.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Trump seemed to believe that bucking up his base was productive (by attacking the media, for example).
    — Jennifer Rubin, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
  • So buck up and develop your strategies and techniques to handle such recluse situations with finesse.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But this particular dose of Irish fatalism—things could always be worse, so buck up and smile—always seemed worth remembering.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2019
  • War is nothing like the movies or the patriotic tales that circulate to buck up morale — a lesson that his son can only learn for himself. Guilt and resentment press on him from both generational sides.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • If credible, that promise should buck up animal spirits, encourage spending, and drag the economy back to health.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Marrying the wrong woman and then, instead of bucking up and withstanding it or bucking up and ending things, carrying on a years-long affair that made miseries of multiple lives.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The veteran reporter David Sirota offers a fairly mind-bending essay on the way that public-pension funds are being used to bankroll billionaires—and to buck up the fossil-fuel industry.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 July 2021
  • This same thinking — that men should buck up — can also dissuade men from seeking counseling or therapy or even, simply, deep conversations with other men.
    — Nicole Spector, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Southie beaches have seen an influx in recent years of twenty-something techies and financial types who sometimes buck up against the sensibilities of patrons with generational roots in the neighborhood.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021

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