bolstered up
Example Sentences
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“We really bolstered up our state election law expertise,” said Catherine Kim, executive vice president for editorial at NBC News.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024
Another fan bolstered up those who had fallen, and pushed the sunburned man back.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2013
Last week, in the Lancet, Dr. Phyllis Toohey Kerridge of London University bolstered up this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children.
From Time Magazine Archive
Michael Gold, Em Jo Basshe�impatient with the restraint of conventional theatre, have set up one of their own, bolstered up by the generous purse of Otto Hermann Kahn.
From Time Magazine Archive
In such imperfect form, indifferently bolstered up and rounded only from without, do I now set him before the public, obedient to an impulse which certainly does not proceed from within.
From Atta Troll by Heine, Heinrich
