tone up
Example Sentences
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Every stroke uses 85% of your muscles covering nine major muscle groups so it also helps you to tone up, fast.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2024
The 6-foot-4 Thompson posted a game-high 20 points, including 18 on the attack at the net as she set the tone up front for an American team seeking its first gold medal in the sport.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2021
Instead, "Promising Young Woman" shifts its tone up again.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2020
“Flesh” showcases Ms. Sánchez’s amalgam of unkempt flow and patterned logic: She sets the tone up front with an angular, two-handed tangle, eventually fading behind the saxophones of Román Filiu and Jerome Sabbagh.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017
Actually nothing is done to render the body lithe and supple, to develop the idle muscles, to deepen the breathing and quicken the circulation—in short, to tone up the whole system.
From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by Blaikie, William Garden
