How to Use shore up in a Sentence

shore up

phrasal verb
Definition of shore upnext
  • Elsewhere, strong winds and rolling waves hit the shore up and down the East Coast.
    — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The state has made progress to shore up the pensions but still falls behind peers.
    — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The move to speed up the path to citizenship is aimed at shoring up troops as the war drags on.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Now it is seen as a way to shore up the finances of families in need.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024
  • Keep an eye out for a potential trade in the next 24 hours to shore up the back of their roster.
    — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The speech is just one of the stops this weekend aimed at shoring up support from black voters.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2024
  • But the necessary fixes to shore up the structure haven’t yet been made.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Or should Mejia have done more to reach out to them, shoring up support for his nominee?
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Crews got to work shoring up roads, removing trees, and beginning the cleanup.
    — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
  • Second, is to increase repressions and shore up the regime.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • Then Hochul may seek another way to shore up the finances of the transit system.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • As the 2024 race ramps up, both Harris and Trump will be looking to shore up support among Black voters.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 31 July 2024
  • Dana Taylor: Reassessing the fire risk In a place like Maui, is that going to be key to shoring up the industry?
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Jordan could call a third vote In the short term, Jordan could call another vote to try to shore up his support.
    — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes, this means shoring up the basics rather than sprinting toward the future.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The infusion is not a loan as such but will shore up the reserves and remain with Pakistan's central bank for at least a year.
    — Saudi Arabia, Fox News, 11 July 2023
  • In the meantime, Netanyahu is moving to shore up support among his right-wing partners.
    — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Part of the plan is to shore up the country's fragmented defense industry.
    — Isabel Reynolds and Yuki Hagiwara Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The outlet claims that the Elba is in talks to partner with Marc Boyan, a marketing guru to shore up funds for the venture.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The disaster occurred on the same day that Mr. Zelensky set out on a trip to shore up Western backing for Ukraine.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Under Bakish, the company did shed some assets to shore up the balance sheet.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 June 2024
  • Farmers and public works crews are racing to shore up levees in the Central Valley.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • Economists said the measures probably won’t be enough to shore up growth.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The move aimed to shore up the financial system after a cascade of major bank failures.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 May 2023
  • Its grants are meant to help shore up that supply by reducing water demand or waste.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • To wit, since when do Republicans oppose shoring up U.S. weapons stocks?
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
  • And Israel’s prime minister will try to shore up U.S. support in his address to Congress.
    — Kaylah Jackson, NBC News, 24 July 2024
  • The selection addresses the Wings' need to shore up the center position in their farm system.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
  • Both companies have taken steps to build new facilities to shore up production.
    — Nathan Bomey, Axios, 25 July 2024
  • Energy officials in northern Virginia, which has more data centers than any other region in the world, have proposed a transmission line to shore up the grid that would depend on coal plants that had been expected to be shuttered.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024

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