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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Its grants are meant to help shore up that supply by reducing water demand or waste.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• To wit, since when do Republicans oppose shoring up U.S. weapons stocks?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• And Israel’s prime minister will try to shore up U.S. support in his address to Congress.
  — Kaylah Jackson, NBC News, 24 July 2024
• The selection addresses the Wings' need to shore up the center position in their farm system.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• The moves to shore up its cash position were expected and the stock reacted mildly favorably.
  — Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• At the onset of the full-scale invasion in early 2022, Harris traveled to Europe to help shore up a coalition of European allies to support Ukraine.
  — Lena Surzhko Harned, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024