How to Use buff up in a Sentence

buff up

verb
  • Burger King is buffing up the Whopper for the first time in a decade.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The quests in the other two books are there to give players more gold and magic items to buff up their characters.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Ohio State has buffed up its interior line with Smith and the edge with Russaw.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Dire forecasts attract attention and buff up the forecasters’ brands.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025

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