How to Use beef up in a Sentence

beef up

phrasal verb

• And beefing up the staff is a long and winding process.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 July 2023
• Next on the list was beefing up the Tigers’ receiving corps.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 22 Aug. 2023
• The Biden-Harris campaign recently beefed up its staff in the state.
  — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
• The chili starts with ground beef, onions, and plenty of spices before being beefed up with black beans, tomatoes, and frozen corn.
  — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 26 July 2024
• Image: Ikea In the meantime, Ikea has been beefing up its smart home in other ways.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
• Police and fire agencies across the region were beefing up staffing as the storm barrels north.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• In recent weeks, Seoul officials have vowed to learn from the Hamas attack and promised to beef up their defenses.
  — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• It may be beefed up a bit to help with towing and payload capacity.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
• Already, as seen in the trailer, the movie’s CGI has been beefed up for natural elements such as ocean waves.
  — Natalie Sitek, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2024
• Castillo has since had the glass replaced on the first store that was broken into, and has beefed up the security and alarms on both shops.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2023
• It’s also helped that the unit has been overhauled from a year ago, hoping to beef up pass rush production around Garrett.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
• The Steelers pounce here to beef up an already imposing running game.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024
• These extra hours beef up their earnings but wreak havoc on their schedules.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
• Gallegos is a smart mind in the secondary and eager playmaker, but will likely need to beef up his frame.
  — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Years in the making Russia-watchers say Moscow has been beefing up its hybrid war units for years.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 30 June 2024
• Along with beefing up the sound deadening, the available engines and their mounts were tuned to limit noise and vibrations.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
• Defensive line Being a bruising, tough team means beefing up the defensive front, and the Chargers have work to do there.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• This winter, the carrier is beefing up its offers from Fairbanks and Juneau.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Another part of the promise was beefing up law enforcement on the highway.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• The coffee shop and music venue will be getting new operators who plan to beef up Semilla’s breakfast and lunch menu, with a pledge to be open the hours that are listed on the web.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2024
• The deal also mapped out how losses will be shared in a catastrophe and beefed up the plan’s public reporting requirements.
  — Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 26 July 2024
• Transfers beefed up the defense that will have Kansas State thinking of repeating its Big 12 title.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• To be sure, some big investors beefed up major technology trades.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2024
• San Bernardino City Unified used $8 million of its $230 million in Covid relief funds to beef up its after-school program.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
• That includes beefing up the city’s homelessness outreach teams, as part of the work to clear encampments from waterways.
  — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
• This could make sending money and arms to Ukraine for much longer very difficult for countries who are actively trying to beef up their own forces.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• The structure has been beefed up, with special attention paid to side-impact protection.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 15 July 2023
• Banks are forced to spend more to beef up their technology to prevent criminal check fraud, and, even then, plenty of fake checks continue to get cashed.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
• However, Schur was keen to beef up the actual crime Charles is investigating.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle resigned, and the agency pledged to beef up security so that none of its several dozen protectees are that vulnerable again.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024