perked up

How To Use perked up In A Sentence

• She perked up when her boyfriend arrived.
• Cooked until caramelized, the vegetables are perked up by the addition of ripe cherry tomatoes and the small fresh mozzarella rounds called bocconcini, which melt into the hot pasta. SFGate: Top News Stories
• After the keynote speech, anyone with half a brain perked up and took notice. Matthew Yglesias » Times Change
• A vegetable stew can be perked up with a dash of chilli sauce.
• You've perked up since this morning.
• A vegetable stew can be perked up with a dash of chilli sauce.
• The dog perked up its ears at the sound of its master's return.
• Another factor was the drop in prices, especially for entry-level products, which has perked up purchases by small and medium enterprises and homes.
• She perked up as soon as I mentioned that Charles was coming to dinner.
• But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas. Emdashes