warm up
Example Sentences
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OTTAWA—Canada’s job market continued to warm up into the summer, with the private sector again driving hiring in July that helped push the unemployment rate to a two-year low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The meet, which was staged in a gym with one set of bleachers and fans sitting on mats, was an intimate warm up for the arena stage Ohashi will take at the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
"Already we are starting to see sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific warm up drastically," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
"In the UK the waters take quite a long time to warm up," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
For him to warm up to me after years of being at each other’s throats just because we’d been forced together?
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
