bang up
Example Sentences
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I was captain and we were bang up for that one, I can assure you.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022
Here, the first drop of precipitation and bang: up go a forest of brollies.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019
A new book about the software makers who are quietly building modern society is bang up to date in a fast-moving world, says reviewer Li Gong.
From Nature • Apr. 4, 2019
“It encodes the stars' formation history from the end of the ‘cosmic Dark Ages,' hundreds million years after the big bang, up to present day.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2018
I took a rag out of my tote sack and wrapped the knife in it so’s it wouldn’t bang up ’gainst none of my chunking stones.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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