How to Use juice up in a Sentence

juice up

verb
  • They’re always juiced up, fired up.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2025
  • It’s meant to juice up the thin score and give it a soulful-dude sound.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Make sure your battery bank is fully juiced up ahead of the storm.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2024
  • And then there's the problem of waiting around while your ride is juiced up.
    — New Atlas, 23 July 2024
  • This tiny power bank can juice up an iPhone in full up to three times per charge.
    — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
  • External battery packs can be a great way to juice up your phone while on the go.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Games like this, everyone’s going to be juiced up and ready to go.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Nwandu’s play has no such brand-name power source to juice up the box office.
    — Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
  • This negates the need to lug a 4-lb (2-kg) brick around to juice up your bike; just a cable will do.
    — New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Along with these apps, there are other ways owners can find a place to juice up their vehicles.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Just juice up your phone, make sure your car is ready to roll, grab your go-to road snacks, and let your smartphone do the hard work.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • If mom has an old 18W plug, a new one could juice up her phone at double the speed or more.
    — Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2025
  • It's used as a cutting agent that can stretch a supply of heroin or juice up fake prescription pills.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The wear and tear that charging cords go through is one of the main reasons many turn to wireless chargers to juice up their phones.
    — Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2020
  • This faction of Christians would juice up their power by melding it with the power of the state.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • Mostly, though, these extravagances serve to juice up the drama.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The charger can quickly juice up a wide range of electronics, from smartphones to tablets and laptops.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Dennis Allen’s push to juice up the pass rush will include a focus on adding players both on the edge and inside.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Scientists say the warming climate may help juice up convective storms even more in the future.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The latter can also juice up your phone and other gadgets when it's not being used with the Pyro.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Porsche has decided drivers should be able to juice up EVs in luxury.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
  • Not needing another vehicle to juice up a battery saves you a lot of anxiety and time.
    — William Miller, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Bruce Pearl is juicing up Auburn’s roster for next season with one of the nation’s top scoring guards.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Might the staff push a recession narrative that moves the Fed to juice up the economy in an election year?
    — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
  • How the frying, which probably began as a way to juice up leftovers, became part of the core preparation when my aunt was young.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Vaccines juice up immune systems so that viral defense becomes a reflex; tests just flag the issue, then wait for users to make the next move.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Another major bonus with this pick is its USB charging port that can juice up your devices on the go.
    — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Orders of three or five power banks will snag you a free charging dock that will juice up multiple SolidSafes at once.
    — New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2025
  • This new storm will likely be weaker than the first, but will still juice up the region’s rain threat and could also usher in another round of damaging winds.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Smart jokes are funny, while eye-rolling bits get the safety net of being corny as a result of desperate producers trying to juice up their franchise.
    — William Earl, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025

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