How to Use shore up in a Sentence

shore up

phrasal verb

• The new law did a few things to kind of shore up the process.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
• Elsewhere, strong winds and rolling waves hit the shore up and down the East Coast.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• The state has made progress to shore up the pensions but still falls behind peers.
  — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2024
• The move to speed up the path to citizenship is aimed at shoring up troops as the war drags on.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Jan. 2024
• Now it is seen as a way to shore up the finances of families in need.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024
• Keep an eye out for a potential trade in the next 24 hours to shore up the back of their roster.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• The speech is just one of the stops this weekend aimed at shoring up support from black voters.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2024
• But the necessary fixes to shore up the structure haven’t yet been made.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2023
• Boeing raised $21 billion in a stock sale this week to shore up its balance sheet.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
• Or should Mejia have done more to reach out to them, shoring up support for his nominee?
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Crews got to work shoring up roads, removing trees, and beginning the cleanup.
  — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• Second, is to increase repressions and shore up the regime.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
• Then Hochul may seek another way to shore up the finances of the transit system.
  — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• Dana Taylor: Reassessing the fire risk In a place like Maui, is that going to be key to shoring up the industry?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• Patrick Dubach, the company's CEO and founder, said the work started with shoring up the structural integrity.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
• Jordan could call a third vote In the short term, Jordan could call another vote to try to shore up his support.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2023
• In its wake, Boeing launched a stock offering last week to raise up to $22 billion to shore up its finances.
  — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
• Sometimes, this means shoring up the basics rather than sprinting toward the future.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The infusion is not a loan as such but will shore up the reserves and remain with Pakistan's central bank for at least a year.
  — Saudi Arabia, Fox News, 11 July 2023
• In the meantime, Netanyahu is moving to shore up support among his right-wing partners.
  — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
• Teams had to shore up the structure in the efforts to reach him and he wasn't removed until a little after midnight, O’Neill said.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
• Part of the plan is to shore up the country's fragmented defense industry.
  — Isabel Reynolds and Yuki Hagiwara Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
• The outlet claims that the Elba is in talks to partner with Marc Boyan, a marketing guru to shore up funds for the venture.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
• The disaster occurred on the same day that Mr. Zelensky set out on a trip to shore up Western backing for Ukraine.
  — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Under Bakish, the company did shed some assets to shore up the balance sheet.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 June 2024
• Farmers and public works crews are racing to shore up levees in the Central Valley.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• Economists said the measures probably won’t be enough to shore up growth.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
• The move aimed to shore up the financial system after a cascade of major bank failures.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 May 2023
• In June, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have shored up access to contraception.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
• Hegseth, meanwhile, spent most of Wednesday on Capitol Hill working to shore up support from Republican senators.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024