Examples of buck up in a Sentence
buck up, kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be
a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops
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In 2004, though, NASCAR left; the small-town infrastructure was starting to buck up against NASCAR’s ascending popularity — something racing officials wanted to capitalize on by building state-of-the-art tracks out West.
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Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 2 Apr. 2026
Signal flares shot into the social media sky are meant to jumpstart conversations with coaches needing to plug holes or buck up slouching fan bases.
—Brian Davis, Houston Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2026
Yet this same McNamara fully backed the U.S. ground-force commitment and was an architect of Operation Rolling Thunder,the sustained bombing campaign aimed at breaking Hanoi’s resolve—and bucking up Saigon’s—that began in March 1965 and would run for more than three years.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
While waiting for help, stay bucked up inside your vehicle.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
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Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 2 Apr. 2026
Signal flares shot into the social media sky are meant to jumpstart conversations with coaches needing to plug holes or buck up slouching fan bases.
—Brian Davis, Houston Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2026
Yet this same McNamara fully backed the U.S. ground-force commitment and was an architect of Operation Rolling Thunder,the sustained bombing campaign aimed at breaking Hanoi’s resolve—and bucking up Saigon’s—that began in March 1965 and would run for more than three years.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
While waiting for help, stay bucked up inside your vehicle.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for buck up
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“Buck up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buck%20up. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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