button up
Example Sentences
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Opponents of Question 1 are calling it “voter suppression,” which is the cliche used by the left against any effort to button up state election laws.
I think I hold the most back when I’m interviewing people on the red carpet, because I know I have to be buttoned up, and it’s about them.
From Los Angeles Times
“He knows how to walk a deal through step by step to make sure that everything is complete and buttoned up,” Buss said, “and that’s exactly what happened.”
From Los Angeles Times
While being escorted into the ceremony in the Capitol, eyes hidden behind her hat and coat buttoned up, she was a dead-ringer for H.G.
From Salon
It was all about the cool dark shirt, the leather jacket, the black suit button up… I asked myself “how am I gonna be different here and also comfortable?”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.