How To Use Worked up In A Sentence

  • The rest of the disc isn't as sonically edgy, but the sounds and settings that Bowie & Ronson worked up for each are strikingly appropriate.
  • It was kind of hard to get too worked up about it when the TV news was busy erroneously reporting that the space shuttle was traveling "nearly 18 times the speed of light" when it went boom.
  • Three men worked up there making spectroscopic and interferometric studies of airglow and auroral processes in the upper atmosphere. Terra Incognita
  • The new traffic scheme worked up to a point, but it had its problems.
  • In some cases, such as the practical session on conductus, there is only a tantalisingly brief report, and, clearly, some interesting items were being worked up for presentation elsewhere.
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  • We need to stop allowing these people who have soapboxes to put whatever conspiratory plotline they saw on TV show in our heads and making baseless accusations just to get us worked up amongst ourselves. Avlon: Partisan politics ought to end at the water’s edge
  • Now the average man on the street is not going to get worked up over what happens to hedge funds.
  • I get very worked up about the way women are stereotyped in a lot of mainstream films.
  • Amsterdam gadiez Magazine subscriptions | fashion magazine noetical Why are people getting so worked up over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's fashion Style! Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • His erratic performance at least gave fans something to get worked up about - as there was little else happening. The Sun
  • We worked up a good sweat carrying the boxes outside.
  • I attribute it all to a vanity that has, by the foolish admiration of his acquaintance, been worked up into a kind of phrensy, I shall be very unwilling to believe that he ever intended to distress a friend whom he loved as much as I believe that he has done you. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • Jessica worked up a sweat dancing so the dress stuck uncomfortably to her.
  • The red-faced Prince appeared in his element despite the watching media crews as he worked up a sweat running around the pitch with about a dozen fellow players.
  • Such basics are taken for granted -- or can be easily worked upon, given time. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • The scene takes the form of a terzetto, which is worked up with constantly increasing power to a climax of passionate energy, and at last dies away as Marguerite expires. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
  • From the kickout the ball was worked up the stand side of the pitch.
  • Each one of them worked up a long essay which, over a couple of terms, grappled with challenging ideas about the texts they had been reading.
  • His father worked up a department store.
  • The medicine the doctor prescribed worked upon his illness.
  • Having worked up an appetite watching the Jonas Brothers perform at their local shipping centre, the famous family headed off to the shops and browsed through the aisles picking out fruit, vegetables, soft drinks and herbs, no doubt choosing what to have for their dinner that evening. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » The Beckham Bunch Goes Grocery Shopping
  • Paige: Wow, I really worked up a sweat. I'm gonna be so sore tomorrow.
  • On the days he did hit the water, he lost interest in the workout before he worked up a sweat.
  • IN NO WAY should he ever get another gig playing Clark/Supes. jason b opinions cannot be false, and if you knew anything about filmmaking you would know that a talented director can bring a performance out of even the stiffest of actors. welling is just fine, and would be great under nolan. but this is fun, im enjoying the crush you have on me where you follow my statements around and get all worked up over things i post. i'll be posting on transformers 3 later on, hope to see you there. jason b More Crazy Rumors: Jonah Nolan to Direct Superman? | /Film
  • Preferably, soil should be worked up at least four to six weeks before roses are planted in a new bed.
  • By chance he bumped into her again that night at another pub and worked up the courage to speak with her.
  • This went on for about twenty minutes, as the girls worked up a sweat.
  • He had long since doffed his knit shirt, having worked up a sweat with all his chores.
  • Why get so worked up over a rinky-dink league that most people aren't watching any way?
  • They get the experience of participation or observation, but don't have the mojo worked upon them.
  • He liked to think he was a laid-back kind of guy; nothing riled him and certainly women didn't get him all worked up.
  • He was a ringed man—that is, he wore on his head the black ring, made of a species of gum polished with fat and worked up in the hair.
  • She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.
  • We've worked up the offer, but since T is anal-retentive he does not trust the home inspection contingency clause on the Offer to Purchase in Midwestern State (he doesn't think it protects the buyer enough, and gives too much leeway to the seller). Archive 2006-05-01
  • From there we worked up branch by branch, careful of slipping on the shiny-smooth silver-gray bark. Fire The Sky
  • By then, we'd worked up an appetite and had a lovely dinner, again near the Campo.
  • I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature.
  • Having worked up hearty appetite just thinking about all the calories burnt off in a hockey match I was in the mood for some lunch.
  • Arthur conceded that he would need another fight before tackling Gomez again sometime later this year as he barely worked up a sweat in last night's encounter.
  • The profane person simply hasn't worked up a sweat trying to figure it out for himself.
  • The old woman worked up a sweat in the garden.
  • A thin, flexible-metal stent to unclog the carotid artery and a tiny ‘basket’ to catch loose plaque particles are inserted into a patient's groin and worked up to the neck where the artery will be cleared.
  • The practice is not a very lucrative one at the moment, but if it is worked up it should prove quite profitable.
  • And on Friday some 26 youngsters, aged between eight and 14, worked up a sweat at a sports and games day.
  • We worked up courage
  • But what really gets my goat is the assertion that this ban is some sort of 'prejudice' - please, I think there are far more important forms of prejudice to get all worked up about. Hunting banned
  • Culture Minister Georgios Voulgarakis, of the currently ruling center-right New Democratic party, is relatively new in the post, having been more-or-less demoted from the job of Public Order Minister in February on the heels of a phone-tapping scandal (apparently, they get more worked up about that sort of thing in Greece than over here). It's House
  • We worked up an ad for our client
  • She was getting worked up, panicking even, for nothing at all. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • I'd wake up, all worritted and chivied about my imagined charges, and then I'd be too worked up to go back to sleep for ten or fifteen minutes. Trinityboy Diary Entry
  • Anyway, it kind of disgusts me that you can get this worked up over a photo on the internet. Cropping – a fat girls best friend | My[confined]Space
  • Salutation of the Blessed Mary in the entry of the quire on the south side, 'which he himself constructed with the _pulpitum_ on the same place _ut nunc cernitur_ says the' Chronicle, 'and parts of it are worked up in the present screen. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
  • It almost seems that the only sane and responsible counter-measure to the thought-police censorship is for us teachers and resource editors to go out of our way to find other discussion platforms (web-based, of course!) to allow learners to absorb and practice their English via topics about which they can get passionate and even worked up. T is for Taboo « An A-Z of ELT
  • One of his books noted that he was a salvage expert and hard hat diver who worked upon the sunken German fleet at Scapa Flow. David Masters
  • It warmed up usually by her afternoon classes with Professor Kirber and since she had been let in to challenge again she worked up a sweat.
  • Glenn Beck and the Tea Party represent a very vocal minority, so worked up about the direction of our nation that they'll pour into Washington by the hundreds of thousands to worship at the feet of a religious revivalism rooted in nostalgia for a white-washed version of America that never was. Sally Kohn: One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter
  • The practice is not a very lucrative one at the moment, but if it is worked up it should prove quite profitable.
  • He worked up a good bit of patter with the audience and even managed to get a laugh when recounting a story that involved switching into a different language.
  • When the MRP ran out, I worked up a load with RelodeR 22 which gave about 50 fps less velocity and nearly identical accuracy. Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • It's hard to imagine anyone ever getting quite so worked up over these new buses.
  • The very mention of non-availability of water as a discussion agenda got the women all worked up.
  • she was worked up about all the noise
  • Something in him worked upon her imagination, something, no doubt, in the overcoloured, romantic yarns current about the Lone Wolf, and so had touched her heart. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
  • Having benefitted from my ‘married with children’ status for years, I honestly would not get too worked up if those differentiations were dropped and each taxpayer was taken as an individual, regardless of civil status.
  • I dunno… is there anyone out there who can actually get worked up one way or the other over this?
  • Paige: Wow, I really worked up a sweat. I'm gonna be so sore tomorrow.
  • The issue that has the creationists so worked up is whether the program used 'latching' or not. Pharyngula
  • Caught the bus most of the way back and then worked up a sweat coming the rest of the way home.
  • He took a day off to get thoroughly worked up in, came home that night full to the chin of indignation and Dunedin beer, and tried to kick Steelman out.
  • I worked up to published maximum loads in small increments and found all of them to be safe in my pistol.
  • The thing is I've just logged on and there are loads of replies for that ad we worked up for Chrissie. FALLEN WOMEN
  • Make no mistake, we'll get pretty worked up should another hack claim exclusivity for a story that we did first.
  • I am surprised that the fellow on the subway worked up the gumption to pitch on his book, despite your broadsword and fearsome skull-helmet. Stuff We Did This Weekend; Or, Our Life Is Queries
  • And when this god had passed over to the place where Bent-Resht was, he worked upon the daughter of the Prince of Bekhten with his magical power, and she became better (i.e., was healed) straightway. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
  • The practice is not a very lucrative one at the moment, but if it is worked up It'should prove quite profitable.
  • At least I cleaned up the cardboard boxes and the packing material, and I worked up a sweat.
  • Spinners, the court heard, are worked up into a frenzy by a frantic call-and-response routine led by an instructor. Times, Sunday Times
  • The instigators don't really care - it is synthetic, undifferentiated anger, it's the need to get worked up.
  • It wasn't my cousin getting married that had me so worked up, but rather that the event would require seeing my father again, after over a year and a half of politely avoiding him.
  • After all, nobody gets worked up when German Chancellors commemorate the thousands of ordinary soldiers who died for their motherland during the war.
  • It's not the most ceremonious way to launch the band's discography, perhaps, but it's a telling indicator that, after just a few live appearances, controller.controller have got people worked up.
  • To manipulate the sharks' movement, the film-makers would throw chunks of bloody tuna into the water, which would get the sharks worked up.
  • So the creative minds that once worked up angles turning Shawn Michaels's heel by giving Marty Jannety sweet chin music through Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's window now help @TheMiz call @JohnCena a "midcard jobber" on Twitter. The Rock returns to WWE's 'Monday Night Raw,' with an assist from social media
  • It was a perfectly innocent question. Why get so worked up about it?
  • I eventually made it there, ready to jump into the pool because it was so hot and I had worked up a sweat.
  • Even at the tender age of twelve I had a fine understanding of the ways of women and could tell the only reason she was so worked up was she was hot for me.
  • When the sitting was over, Polson told me that the very first proposal submitted by the president was that the ship's sails should all be unbent and taken ashore to form tents for the people to live in; and that, next, the ship should be stripped to a gantline, and her spars and rigging -- together with as much of her bulwarks as might be required -- worked up into a raft for the conveyance of cargo to the shore. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
  • His father worked up a department store.
  • The practice is not a very lucrative one at the moment, but if it is worked up It'should prove quite profitable.
  • The ravenous appetite I worked up instantly disappeared.
  • At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job.
  • I had heard stories of those that had worked up the courage to try; their bodies swung from scaffolds in the middle of the town square so that any who were planning likewise understood the underlying and brutal message: To try is to loose.
  • Yesterday was sunny and warm and I worked up a sweat.
  • The incredulity, thinking further back, at all the trivia through the last decade we got ourselves worked up over.
  • Every case of poverty, except that with which you come personally in contact is due to stubbornness on the part of the poor, and you will fight to the last ditch against any measures that are proposed to eliminate the causes of misery, and yet you get all worked up about the fruits of the system you are upholding whenever it invades your backyard. Aleta Dey
  • In the northern Wady el-Hárr, also, we picked up specimens of obsidian, oligistic iron, and admirably treated modern (?) slags showing copper and iron; evidently some Gypsy-like atelier must once have worked upon the The Land of Midian — Volume 1
  • I notice the bewilderment in their eyes, and it infects me: Why, exactly, should anyone get so worked up about a piece of ice?
  • The sumthin 'Nariani worked up for "ILLhaam" was the surprise aerial choreography of the title piece, shown in the video above I shot it from my seat; a professionally-produced video will be available by the holidays on DVD, which brought a Cirque du Soleil-like element of graceful movement to the precision movements of the dancers grounded on the stage. Gil Asakawa: Mudra Dance Studio Show Takes Flight in "ILLhaam... Cycles... ILLumination"
  • we worked up an as of an appetite
  • It was a perfectly innocent question. Why get so worked up about it?
  • By 1784 he was describing in plaintive terms how the English were constantly making new discoveries: ‘The whole of nature is unceasingly studied, requested, worked upon, fecundated, husbanded.’
  • All the paper you carried to the workshop has been worked up.
  • His erratic performance at least gave fans something to get worked up about - as there was little else happening. The Sun
  • I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
  • it worked up to right now
  • It showed a remarkable political obtuseness not to recognize that when the base of the party is worked up enough to call and write in record numbers, something is in the air besides the smell of patchouli oil.
  • A policy of containment and deterrence has worked up until now.
  • The decon officers surrounded her like plastic-swathed ghosts, but one of them worked up the nerve to ask. Dark Oracle
  • And what particularly gets Rayment worked up is his "discovery" that, "Government scientists have established that the mines are precision-made weapons which have been turned on a lathe by craftsmen trained in the manufacture of munitions," probably originating from Iran. Tip of the iceberg
  • When he does do something like greedily grab onto a bottle of milk with his mouth, it's an event worth getting all worked up about because it shows a glimmer of him being a wee person instead of a wriggling blob that poos.
  • And besides, other nations, such as the French, don't get so worked up about the peccadilloes of the famous.
  • In the northern Wady el-Hárr, also, we picked up specimens of obsidian, oligistic iron, and admirably treated modern (?) slags showing copper and iron; evidently some Gypsy-like atelier must once have worked upon the Wady Yáhárr. The Land of Midian
  • The medicine the doctor prescribed worked upon his illness.
  • While her performance is deft and provocative, her mannish appearance is so off-putting that it's tough to imagine two men being so worked up over her they'd risk everything to have her.
  • In a few seconds, she had worked up quite a bit of lather and took the large pitcher of water again and poured it over my hair.
  • AmandaMarcotte This is my weirdness, but when someone writes about the politics of food, and the words "nourish" and "body" sit near each other, I gack. chickengreve I get myself all worked up about politics. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • We worked up a real appetite climbing in the mountains.
  • This could then be worked up into a yet larger, full-scale model in plaster.
  • Marc looked over at the man-boy who had worked up a sweat on his forehead, and realized who he was.
  • I realize Horse's Ass and others are all worked up about it, but as a PR issue, a DUI is a DUI. Sound Politics: McGavick in the News
  • It also has a vividness and directness not usually associated with paintings worked up from sketches and photographs.

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