How to Use bone up in a Sentence

bone up

verb
  • I suggest you bone up a bit on torts before the next attempt at the bar exam.
  • Dust off that leisure suit or flashy disco dress and bone up on your moves!
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2021
  • If the win is closing the sale, bone up on your sales closing techniques.
    — George Bradt, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • So for anyone who needs to bone up on all things Dragon, here’s your chance.
    — Basma Bedawi, Vulture, 14 June 2024
  • All should bone up on budget-balancing and tell us their thinking.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
  • The question is likely to come up again, so Haley and the rest of them would do well to bone up on the subject.
    — Leonard Greene, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Specialized cells break old bone down while others build new bone up, and the two processes roughly keep pace.
    — Allison Palmer updated June 3, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • Mastering the roles required Gaffigan to bone up on his physics and chemistry.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And most times, the Mountain West fails to give the rest of the college universe reason to bone up.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This is a good time of year to bone up on the bear facts and safety because many bears are now in a phase known as hyperphagia, Pratt said.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Sanders had boned up on socialism during his freshman year at Brooklyn College.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The beloved institution, where students, artists, scholars and fans could browse memoirs and bone up for auditions, was in danger of closing.
    — New York Times, 6 June 2021
  • The anatomical basics will allow artists to restore long-extinct animals from the bones up, out to the tiny details of the living creature.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The frames still manage to feel highly composed, as if the actors have been blocked to within an inch of their lives; Glazer has clearly boned up on his Haneke.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • This time, Newsom had been too busy practicing his State of the State address to bone up on a budget presentation.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • And those same fans — whether inspired by the clips that have circulated, or merely attempting to bone up on its deeper cuts before future live dates — are of course also streaming the album in droves.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 7 May 2025
  • Ceja also boned up on creator Malloy’s interpretation of Natasha.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
  • And for those who know the show and just want to bone up on the episodes that’ll be most useful for enhancing your Many Saints experience, these are the ones to revisit, in order of importance.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Stallworth and Drew Gentry, her biology teacher who was fossil hunting with her, followed the trail of bone up a hill and discovered the skull of a prehistoric whale that may be a new species.
    — Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Joseph boned up on the decision during the lunch break and learned that ICE agents with a detainer against a defendant were only to take custody of the defendant in the lock-up area of the court.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Cue outrage among many Bluesky users, particularly those who have boned up on EU data protection law, which does not look kindly on reusing people’s data without their permission.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In preparation for filming, Murray had been boning up on screenwriting guru Robert McKee’s rules of story structure.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
  • And while many of these dinosaurs may never have occupied the same era, the same time period or even the same location, their appearance together on the silver screen may be a perfect chance to bone up on the taxonomy of the giant animals.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2022
  • Natalie Portman is Elizabeth, who, in a genuinely ludicrous plot mechanism, decides to bone up for her role playing Gracie in an upcoming movie by hanging out with the whole family for a few days like some kind of emotional vampire.
    — David Faris, theweek, 13 Feb. 2024

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