buoy up

Example Sentences

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Rare earth permanent magnet material is subject to a 13% VAT discount on export from the country, and provincial governments give support on energy costs, for example, which also helps buoy up magnet-making facilities.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

I hate people who use others as props to buoy up their idiotic self-conceits.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother learning to swim when I could just buoy up and speed up with all these water aids.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016

The grandly sizzling New Orleans funk band might be a little tuckered out after its Mardi Gras gig at Tipitina’s in the Crescent City, but Seattle fans will surely buoy up the boys.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2014

Again and again he had mounted the steps to the platform, and calmly bowed his thanks, while long drawn cheers surged through the noise of hand-clapping, as strains on the brass buoy up the melody.

From Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Aldrich, Mildred