buoyed up
Example Sentences
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Neapolitan pizza does not need to be buoyed up by legends of Aeneas and his dish-eating crew: It stands on its own merits with a glorious and colorful past.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2022
Later, when she is buoyed up by a successful first night in London, Temime dresses her in pastels: “She starts feeling better, so I thought I don’t need, any more, the aggression of the colour.”
From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2019
I think she wanted to keep us buoyed up.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2019
It is not enough to lift all boats, their work suggests, if the poshest vessels are always buoyed up more than the humblest.
From Economist • Jun. 14, 2018
Once through the strait, nine days I drifted in the open sea before I made shore, buoyed up by the gods, upon Ogygia Isle.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
