How to Use talk up in a Sentence

talk up

verb

• The president shouldn’t shrug off the threat in the hopes of talking up the stock market.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 Feb. 2020
• Porsche has always talked up the Cayenne as the sports car of SUVs, and the new variant lives up to the billing.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2023
• For once, Trump didn’t try to talk up the market on Friday.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2020
• Rowe, meanwhile, talked up how much the Turtles meant to him as a child.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
• Pelosi talked up the 49ers chances in a statement announcing the bet.
  — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the meantime, Newsom’s task Thursday will be first, to talk up Biden and Harris.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• Altman and his ilk have to talk up a big game in order to get the massive sums of money in order to set up AI.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
• The goal is for people to talk up Chewy to others and to get a prime spot on shopper's walls, serving as a billboard for the company.
  — Joseph Pisani, ajc, 1 Jan. 2021
• In 2016, Trump talked up his support for coal, rolling up huge victories in even the most Democratic counties in the area.
  — Bruce Schreiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
• Bass talked up Animal Services in her State of the City address last month and thanked the volunteers who work at the shelters.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• To be able to talk up the movie all these years later and be not only being praised but also be able to be proud about it is a very proud moment.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Her team unionized in 2020, and some of them have been joining meetings with the Waymo workers to show them the ropes of organizing and talk up the union.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Agents also pay for top prospects to train for the combine and talk up their draft value with general managers.
  — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Early in his high school career, Monroe Freeling had a coach who liked to talk up the Hurricanes.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 10 May 2022
• The president was here last week to talk up his infrastructure plans.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2021
• Huang talked up the rise of AI and his company’s role in what some have called the modern gold rush on the Wednesday post-earnings conference call.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• Last week, the first lady met with teachers' union heads to talk up Biden's promise to open K-8 schools as soon as safely possible.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021
• Still, most Trump supporters are willing to talk up the president.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2020
• Kate Middleton dressed down to talk up the value of spending time outside on Tuesday.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
• The track sees Beyoncé talking up her achievements and wealth over a hard-dropping beat.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• For those films, the directors may play a larger part in talking up their movies and raising awareness with viewers at home.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 July 2023
• In the meantime, Mr Chesky tirelessly talks up its growth potential.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• The equivalent to that today in the automotive world is to talk up your EV ambitions.
  — Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021
• Oars + Alps skincare line made its first appearance at OR at the perfect time to talk up its necessity for epic days on the water or the trail.
  — Julie Dugdale, Outside Online, 10 June 2022
• The maker of Lucky Strike cigarettes has reasons to talk up vaping.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 19 June 2022
• Intel continues to talk up its entrance into the discrete graphics market, with its first Xe chips for the PC space planned for 2020.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 18 Nov. 2019
• Trump plans to talk up his fight with the virus, the turnaround in employment and the new predictions that economic growth will skyrocket early next year.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
• Cruz then talked up the idea at a broader lunch of all GOP senators, the officials said, and received encouragement.
  — Robert Costa, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
• Musk, the world’s richest person, talked up possibilities of a fight between him and Zuckerberg for weeks.
  — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• The retreat was the group’s first in-person gathering in three years and a chance for Democrats — who have seen 31 colleagues opt to retire — to talk up their achievements and compare notes on how to move forward.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024