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wrap for decorative purposes
The gift was done up in pretty red paper -
use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.
She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends
How To Use do up In A Sentence
- Guys, from all the exp. and readings I've ever come up with, the .308 Win, By saying this I mean the Cart. not the bullet, can do any thig the 06 can do up to and including the 150 gr. Our Most Underrated Cartridge?
- What exactly do upper class people do? Times, Sunday Times
- She's a good cook, and can do up a shirt _el commee faw_, and you know what that is, better'n I do. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870
- I think you forgot to do up a button on your shirt. The Sun
- What are you gunna do up at the stud farm, other than look at the horses? MURDER SONG
- To do up the house and live comfortably. Times, Sunday Times
- Can you help me to do up my dress?
- We also used to dout (do out, ie, put out) candles, and dup (do up, ie, lift) door latches. Times, Sunday Times
- As crescendo after crescendo uplifts the piece, the group becomes more and more abrasive and unforgiving.
- Do up these papers and send them to Head Office.