How to Use rev up in a Sentence

rev up

phrasal verb

• Last year, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump revved up the crowd.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2023
• So get a head start and revved up for Black Friday beauty deals.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
• London, a cool tourism hot spot, is revved up for a tourist-eager 2024.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Chip and Joanna Gaines are getting revved up in roller skates.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• Each side is likely to rev up their campaign to build support from the public.
  — Erik Wasson, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Keep your LinkedIn page fresh and renew, restore, and rev up your contacts.
  — Anne Chow, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• Sunday should again see highs in the 50s with another chance of rain as a coastal storm tries to rev up, but the details are fuzzy for now.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• With gas cars, starting off from a stop requires the engine to rev up a bit before the car can start moving.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Henry has to be salivating at the prospect of crashing through lighter boxes with more space to rev up.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
• Alcaraz nailed some winners, while Nadal revved up his serves and managed to tie it up at 9-9 with a volley that brought the crowd to its feet.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2024
• This border-town high school is revving up students for an EV workforce.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• At the same time, the fall performance schedule, for such groups as Utah Symphony, are just revving up.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• Live Coverage Feed 4 hours ago The stock-market rally is revving up.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• There was a bit of a lag between depressing the pedal and the artificial din of an LFA’s 4.8-liter V10 revving up, but the concept was clear.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• After perhaps a long summer of travel, why not get revved up to explore closer to home?
  — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Pulling out onto the main road, the Elantra N's engine revved up like a classic, angry turbo-four and double-timed once the tach needle swept past 4,500 rpm.
  — Peter Nelson, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
• There hasn’t been any revving up in regards to team activity and he’s continued to put in the same workload he’s been doing for a while now.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2024
• Uber | View profile Uber reported a 29% rev up in revenue in the first quarter compared to last year, pushing shares up 15% this week.
  — Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Our bodies have evolved to rev up our immune response when we get invaded.
  — Ada Fenick, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• But while some were calling for Biden to step aside, others urged patience with the candidate as the campaign revved up to the November election.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 28 June 2024
• The Swiss scientists were also surprised to find that instead of revving up the zebra fish, the cocaine suppressed their movements.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• Wallace is a friendly, bearded, open-collar sort who always seemed five minutes from revving up a backhoe.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2024
• Honda is expected to ask twenty grand for it, a number big enough to rev up our expectations.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
• The result is a bombastic, liberating piece of work that feels like the early hours of a dance party really starting to rev up.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• The organization is already revving up for the next eclipse in just six months that will be visible from a remote area at the southern tip of South America.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• As inflation revved up following the start of Covid-19 pandemic, the policy makers at the Fed raised the fed-funds rate 11 times in an effort to get prices under control.
  — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 28 Nov. 2023
• Stocks slumped on Wednesday after investors received a fresh sign that the U.S. economy could be revving up, fanning inflation fears.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2023
• Working closely with producers of the NFL event, the group’s assignment as the draft’s official house band is to rev up the room with musical support throughout the three days of the draft, starting Thursday.
  — Mark Lett, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
• And over his 13 months at the helm, there hasn’t been a sense of voters revving up for the presidential election—on the contrary, everyone still seems understandably sick of politics.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• Since the Fed's last rate increase in July, the economy has been doing two things that central bankers don’t think can last much longer: Activity has revved up at the same time that inflation has slowed.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024