How to Use buck up in a Sentence

buck up

verb

• 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
• President Biden’s lieutenants want to write off his dismal debate performance on Thursday as one bad night and are calling on Democrats to buck up and fight.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 30 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024