bone up

Example Sentences

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I want to be clear that this is not necessarily a requirement, that everybody bone up on Nietzsche.

From Salon • May 15, 2022

The senior surgeon at a Paris hospital put the image of a woman's forearm with a Kalashnikov bullet lodged near the bone up for sale online as an NFT.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2022

He said his interpreters all bone up before the Olympics, studying the nuances of judo or the vagaries of Modern Pentathlon.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021

So, he welcomed their interest and began to bone up on what Meyerhoff had accomplished.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 24, 2019

If we were going to play by our own rules, we’d have to bone up on our acting skills.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon