How to Use rev up in a Sentence

rev up

phrasal verb

• Last year, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump revved up the crowd.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2023
• So get a head start and revved up for Black Friday beauty deals.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
• London, a cool tourism hot spot, is revved up for a tourist-eager 2024.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Chip and Joanna Gaines are getting revved up in roller skates.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• Thus far, the film is revving up its engine to the tune of a $10 million domestic gross.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 23 June 2024
• Each side is likely to rev up their campaign to build support from the public.
  — Erik Wasson, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Keep your LinkedIn page fresh and renew, restore, and rev up your contacts.
  — Anne Chow, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• Sunday should again see highs in the 50s with another chance of rain as a coastal storm tries to rev up, but the details are fuzzy for now.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• With gas cars, starting off from a stop requires the engine to rev up a bit before the car can start moving.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Henry has to be salivating at the prospect of crashing through lighter boxes with more space to rev up.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
• Alcaraz nailed some winners, while Nadal revved up his serves and managed to tie it up at 9-9 with a volley that brought the crowd to its feet.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2024
• This border-town high school is revving up students for an EV workforce.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• At the same time, the fall performance schedule, for such groups as Utah Symphony, are just revving up.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• Live Coverage Feed 4 hours ago The stock-market rally is revving up.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• There was a bit of a lag between depressing the pedal and the artificial din of an LFA’s 4.8-liter V10 revving up, but the concept was clear.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• After perhaps a long summer of travel, why not get revved up to explore closer to home?
  — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Pulling out onto the main road, the Elantra N's engine revved up like a classic, angry turbo-four and double-timed once the tach needle swept past 4,500 rpm.
  — Peter Nelson, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
• There hasn’t been any revving up in regards to team activity and he’s continued to put in the same workload he’s been doing for a while now.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2024
• Uber | View profile Uber reported a 29% rev up in revenue in the first quarter compared to last year, pushing shares up 15% this week.
  — Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Our bodies have evolved to rev up our immune response when we get invaded.
  — Ada Fenick, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• Taking the microphone after Harris, Walz revved up the crowd for the rigorous campaign to come.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Aug. 2024
• But while some were calling for Biden to step aside, others urged patience with the candidate as the campaign revved up to the November election.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 28 June 2024
• The Swiss scientists were also surprised to find that instead of revving up the zebra fish, the cocaine suppressed their movements.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• Wallace is a friendly, bearded, open-collar sort who always seemed five minutes from revving up a backhoe.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2024
• Honda is expected to ask twenty grand for it, a number big enough to rev up our expectations.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
• But Trump also spoke with more confidence, and the contrast in energy — Trump revved up, Biden halting — was startling to many viewers.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
• The result is a bombastic, liberating piece of work that feels like the early hours of a dance party really starting to rev up.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• The organization is already revving up for the next eclipse in just six months that will be visible from a remote area at the southern tip of South America.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• Then, as reopenings revved up the economy, wages surged, and retailers passed on markups with relative ease.
  — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• As inflation revved up following the start of Covid-19 pandemic, the policy makers at the Fed raised the fed-funds rate 11 times in an effort to get prices under control.
  — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024