How to Use bone up in a Sentence

bone up

verb

• I suggest you bone up a bit on torts before the next attempt at the bar exam.
• Dust off that leisure suit or flashy disco dress and bone up on your moves!
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2021
• And most times, the Mountain West fails to give the rest of the college universe reason to bone up.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
• If the win is closing the sale, bone up on your sales closing techniques.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• Disney has mixed in some new nomenclature to bone up on.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• This is a good time of year to bone up on the bear facts and safety because many bears are now in a phase known as hyperphagia, Pratt said.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
• Mastering the roles required Gaffigan to bone up on his physics and chemistry.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
• There are resources for educators who want to bone up on A.I. in a hurry.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• And for those who know the show and just want to bone up on the episodes that’ll be most useful for enhancing your Many Saints experience, these are the ones to revisit, in order of importance.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2021
• The beloved institution, where students, artists, scholars and fans could browse memoirs and bone up for auditions, was in danger of closing.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021
• And while many of these dinosaurs may never have occupied the same era, the same time period or even the same location, their appearance together on the silver screen may be a perfect chance to bone up on the taxonomy of the giant animals.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024