How to Use buck up in a Sentence

buck up

verb
  • Defense gonna have to buck up yet again.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps, though, your best option is to buck up and talk to your roommate.
    — Vanessa Marin, Allure, 9 Aug. 2018
  • The best way to find out what happened to Uranus is to buck up and send a mission there.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
  • While waiting for help, stay bucked up inside your vehicle.
    — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In Williamsport, the coach would probably just buck up his shortstop and tell him to get the next one.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Pence, meanwhile, seemed eager to buck up Moon to take a tougher stance against his northern neighbor.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • But that was a moment when the United States needed bucking up to say no to a rush to war.
    — Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • Will gets asked to dance by a girl and Nancy bucks up Dustin after his classmates reject him.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 July 2019
  • After a while, Aeneas had to buck up, accept that Troy was sacked, and found Rome.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Ryan Berran passed this buck up at point-blank range during the Buckeye State bow season last year.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2021
  • An Amazon search currently shows me options from seven bucks up to a hundred.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2024
  • After raising prices for months, some firms are betting that markdowns will buck up sales and clear inventory.
    — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • What’s continued to set the Fosters apart is their work bucking up evacuees and neighbors.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The educators who make the decision to buck up, mask-up and show-up are going to make our lives recognizable again.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Yuudai bows in sorrow, and Mizuki tells him to buck up and just be more considerate in the future.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 17 Apr. 2018
  • War is nothing like the movies or the patriotic tales that circulate to buck up morale — a lesson that his son can only learn for himself. Guilt and resentment press on him from both generational sides.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Eventually, Amelia and Maggie buck up enough courage to step up and be strong for Meredith and her kids.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
  • So buck up and develop your strategies and techniques to handle such recluse situations with finesse.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Trump seemed to believe that bucking up his base was productive (by attacking the media, for example).
    — Jennifer Rubin, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
  • Even so, in June Mario Draghi, the bank’s boss, promised further stimulus if the economy does not buck up.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2019
  • The Tigers bucked up, attacked Wade’s replacement and scored 14 points in the final three minutes of the first half.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2019
  • In an effort to buck up the troops, Altemus has been communicating this message to employees over the last week.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The ThunderWolves’ defense bucked up on the ensuing possession as well.
    — Wells Dusenbury, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • After bucking up his courage, Joe picked up Jim at his apartment, drove him to their father’s place in Fullerton and knocked on the door, which opened.
    — Gregory Orfalea, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • But the President's attempt to buck up the national psyche and his own political prospects rang rather hollow.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • But this particular dose of Irish fatalism—things could always be worse, so buck up and smile—always seemed worth remembering.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2019
  • Wall Street analysts predict that iPhone users will buck up for artificial intelligence in more ways than one.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But to do that, the Coast Guard needs to buck up, build, and then advocate for an aviation strategy that makes few, if any, compromises.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • This same thinking — that men should buck up — can also dissuade men from seeking counseling or therapy or even, simply, deep conversations with other men.
    — Nicole Spector, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Still others buck up the recipe with spirits—so many bartenders have reflexively added vodka that many mistakenly believe that vodka is part of the original recipe.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2024

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