smarten

Example Sentences

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Amazon’s orb-like Echo Dot is one of the most affordable ways to smarten up your home, and it’s now cheaper than ever before.

From The Verge • Apr. 25, 2022

“I would like to see people smarten up so that we don’t have to have a mandate in the first place,” she said.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

MPs have been told to smarten up their clothing when they return from summer recess to the Commons next week.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2021

It’s also a self-protective reflex in the workplace: there’s vindication in seeing a boss who’s always telling others to smarten up wearing her sweater inside-out.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2018

Maybe when he got to be ten, like me, he’d smarten up.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm