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change the use of and make available or usable
develop land
The remote areas of the country were gradually built up
The country developed its natural resources -
form or accumulate steadily
Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly
Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border -
enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
build up your savings -
prepare oneself for a military confrontation
troops are building up on the Iraqi border
The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East -
bolster or strengthen
ramp up security in the airports
build up confidence
We worked up courage
How To Use build up In A Sentence
- He drew with his brush in transparent glaze and build up form with multiple stokes.
- It takes years to build up your image and esteem to the point where the your inner sense of worth meets your outer sense.
- Begin the meeting on time-or if possible sightly early - this will minimize chair squirming and lessen any build up of tension. Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy)
- Some of these commentators build up dialectics into an alternative to all previous forms of logic, something that supersedes such ordinary reasoning as the simple syllogistic form of argument set out on the first page of this chapter.
- Mr Wilkinson was of the opinion that since water treatment equipment had been installed only recently, there were likely to have been corrosion and a build up of scale over the years inside the pipe work.
- I know that the idea of an apprenticeship is more important in the classical world, that you should build up a solid career bit by bit, rather than aim for sudden, one-time success. Archive 2006-10-01
- Haman was an individual who allowed a slight to build up inside him until he was eaten up with anger, revenge, and bitterness.
- So the only way that they could really construct what we call a trench would be actually what I call a fortification meaning they would have to build up. A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
- It turned out that the pork op-ed was something of a prelude to another, larger attack on the local/sustainable food movement: his recently published book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, in which he warns the reader of legions of rabid locavores who would build up irresponsible local food systems and disserve global ecology through their uber-local diets. Leslie Hatfield: Miles from Nowhere: Why Does James McWilliams Hate Local Food?
- Every one of them was involved in the build up to the goal which sent the reinvigorated fans into rapture.