How to Use cheer up in a Sentence

cheer up

verb
  • Elsewhere, there wasn’t much to cheer up the markets.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Swift cheering up in a suite at Chiefs games sends TV ratings soaring.
    — Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Jagger and Tyler cheering up a bedridden Phil Collins in a hospital.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
  • So grab your coffee and settle in—we’ve got the details on what’s changing, what’s challenging, and what’s cheering up the Golden State.
    — James Ward, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
  • In the cold of early 1985, the country needed cheering up, and A Woman of Substance seemed to cut through to all sectors.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The restaurant team wears its impressive training lightly, dipping into an encyclopedic knowledge of Sicilian wine and cheering up a grumpy toddler in the same breath.
    — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Another time, Bruce Springsteen cheers up her bereaved 12-year-old son by taking him for his first motorcycle ride — a fatherly promise that Fred Smith didn’t live long enough to fulfill.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The new iteration sees The Cat in the Hat, voiced by Bill Hader, fighting for his job as a professional mischief-maker brought in to cheer up lackluster children after his wild antics go to far.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 June 2026
  • Then Emily Simpson suggests a game to cheer up Shannon Storms Beador’s daughter Sophie, who came home from New York City for the weekend after being dumped by a beau.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But when Klaus’ toys begin to cheer up the children of Smeerensburg — a town whose inhabitants are perpetually engaged in a feud between two familial clans — Jesper and Klaus must step out of their comfort zones to help save the town from itself.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But when Klaus’ toys begin to cheer up the children of Smeerensburg — a community whose inhabitants are perpetually engaged in a feud between two familial clans — Jesper and Klaus must step out of their comfort zones to help save the town from itself.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • An underdeveloped subplot sees Temir befriend Alika (Jaliyah Richards), a self-conscious Nigerian-American girl from his wrestling class, while a contrastingly fanciful one concerns Azik’s capturing of a likewise far-from-home pelican to cheer up the heavily pregnant and bone-weary Zalya.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 May 2026

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