How to Use pump up in a Sentence

pump up

verb

• At least on Friday, their push to pump up the stock didn't pan out.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 2 June 2024
• There are some solid reasons to want to pump up your push-up skills in the first place.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Apr. 2024
• To pump up the ‘80s rock vibe, Giacchino added guitar, drums and synth.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2022
• So the company may be using a rebrand to help pump up the hype.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 May 2023
• Bonus: Deploy it as a styling product to pump up hair volume.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• Smoked salmon and jammy eggs pump up the protein in this healthy and easy Mother's Day dinner.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2023
• The plaintiffs accuse CrowdStrike and Kurtz of lying to mislead investors and pump up the stock price.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Earlier in the evening, a couple of Californians took to the stage to pump up the crowd for the Trump-Vance ticket.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• But the media gleefully went all-in on this game — and managed to pump up the wrong governor and run down the wrong one, in a failure for the ages.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Feb. 2021
• Burrell said he’s been pumping up the idea all year knowing his girls would be a part of history.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024
• Need to pump up your simple classic button down and high waisted jean look?
  — Marykate Boylan, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2023
• Grapefruit Sculpin is Sculpin Squared, pumping up the original’s bright, sweet-tart notes.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
• Because meat is linked to manhood, carnivory promises a way to pump up a shrivelled birthright.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• There are no regulations on how much water can be pumped up out of the ground in that area, so the state doesn't monitor it.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
• The material is pumped up into the column, heated up once more, and this time the liquid that comes out is liquor.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2024
• Start with a shampoo and conditioner duo that promises to pump up the volume.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
• Regulators said Berman posted over 1,000 messages on the iHUB message board to pump up the stock price.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
• Net flix’s example also drove Amazon to pump up the volume at Prime Video.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 July 2023
• Seriously, what's up with trying to pump up the yellow tones?
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
• The senior first baseman made a long stretch to complete a game-changing double play Wednesday, and on his way to the dugout, the Purdue recruit was pumped up.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2023
• However, lots of those CEOs appear to have instead used the panic of rising costs to pump up their balance sheet.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Dec. 2023
• Houston’s players waved their arms to pump up their supporters.
  — Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2022
• In cities, water is typically pumped up to rooftop tanks, which feed the flow down to spigots via gravity.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• The dome is actually a strong area of high pressure that will pump up temperatures through the Midwest and Southeast and tamp down rain chances through much of the week.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 Aug. 2023
• That success has relied on pumping up more water than nature could put back.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Some of this can be traced to the aftermath of the financial crash of 2008, the pandemic, and rising energy prices pumped up by Russia’s war on Ukraine.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
• The water mingles with the groundwater for months before being pumped up and used for drinking water again.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• The term describes taking both sides of a trade, typically to pump up the price and then exploit others who rush in to get a piece of what looks like a hot trading market.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2023
• Steph Curry has been pumping up the American table tennis team since the Olympics started.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Inside the stadium, a standing-room-only crowd waved white towels to pump up the Jaguars — frequent cellar dwellers — who had a chance to return to the playoffs for the first time since 2017.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024