cheer up

Example Sentences

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And as an artist, she’s glad that, even as a 16-year-old just beginning her career, she never gave in to the pressure to cheer up her tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

“Maybe the current global situation, be it geopolitical or macroeconomic, does not lead people to cheer up and to open bottles of Champagne.”

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

But, the Santa Monica Fire Department told Rogers they could try to look for an item she was seeking that she knew would cheer up her children.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

Voters started to cheer up about the economy.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2024

I could see how Miss Love could cheer up a man whose wife was short of breath for four years, dying for ten days, and dead for three weeks.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns