bang up
Example Sentences
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Like many groups that weekend, they had equipment problems during the set, but resolved them with a bang-up 20-minute medley of “Everyday People” and “Dance to the Music.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
The Old Prioress, who precedes Lidoine as the order’s Mother Superior, comes to a grisly end early in the opera, with a bang-up death scene that some singers approach with Meryl Streep-like meticulousness.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023
It takes up as much room as a Frisbee, but it does a bang-up job of keeping the grit out of my lunchtime soups and salads.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022
The important thing for Meadows, like Trump, is fame maintenance, and he’s doing a bang-up job at it.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2022
Hera and Hephaestus passed me, and while Hephaestus was a little grumpy about my jumping on his throne, he thought I’d done “a pretty bang-up job, mostly.”
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
