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How To Use rev up In A Sentence

• Electric motors are known for producing full torque from a stop, unlike gasoline engines, which have to rev up. Reality check: Is the 2011 Chevrolet Volt an electric car or a hybrid?
• Solid, or mechanical, lifters provide more direct contact between the cam and pushrod and accordingly can rev up to 8,000 rpm.
• Romantic leads in ballets chronically part; they run away to rev up the speed for launching themselves at each other. The Times Literary Supplement
• Increasing your activity will rev up your metabolism so you can burn more calories.
• The temptation to rev up the arms race with high-tech weapons is especially dangerous.
• The coal mines in North China have to rev up their outputs to meet ever - increasing demand.
• Or do you think your neighbor would rev up her chainsaw just to shut you up?
• Estate agents, once more, have a spring in their steps, an extra vroom as they rev up their BMWs.
• Having discovered a mutual passionate love of food, travel and adventure, they pack up their panniers, rev up their bikes and head off in search of authentic culinary and cultural experiences in all corners of the world.
• But there's nothing like partisanship to rev up the faithful, so the president and friends are framing Republicans as tools of big business.