tone up
Example Sentences
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Every stroke uses 85% of your muscles covering nine major muscle groups so it also helps you to tone up, fast.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2024
Harrison thinks it’s been a source of motivation to set the tone up front.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2022
He responded with his usual felonious flight from any sense of moral and political responsibility by stating that he was going to "tone up" his rhetoric rather than tone it down.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2018
“Flesh” showcases Ms. Sánchez’s amalgam of unkempt flow and patterned logic: She sets the tone up front with an angular, two-handed tangle, eventually fading behind the saxophones of Román Filiu and Jerome Sabbagh.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2017
Michael Murphy was confident that he sang gloriously, though he never varied his tone up or down.
From Winning His Way by Coffin, Charles Carleton
