tune up

Example Sentences

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Only three of the top 10 players participated in the Queen’s Club tune up tournament in London, compared to six playing last week in Berlin in a contest of similar scale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Tuchel will rightly say Uruguay and Japan are the tough tests England required to tune up for the World Cup, but the burning question is still the same and has not been answered.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Flutes and drums tune up as spectators begin to line the curbs and balconies along the street.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

"We're nearing a point where we can use these maps to design therapies that can tune up the T cell function for cancer treatments or tune it down to treat autoimmune disease."

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

It was too late to tune up for my performance.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez