buoyed up
Example Sentences
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Neapolitan pizza does not need to be buoyed up by legends of Aeneas and his dish-eating crew: It stands on its own merits with a glorious and colorful past.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2022
But she added that she has also been buoyed up by the number of women who had commented or written to her in vast numbers.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2019
I think she wanted to keep us buoyed up.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2019
It is not enough to lift all boats, their work suggests, if the poshest vessels are always buoyed up more than the humblest.
From Economist • Jun. 14, 2018
The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
