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gather or bring together
muster the courage to do something
Summon all your courage
she rallied her intellect
How To Use muster up In A Sentence
- Y'know, after watching Wednesday's RNC festivities, I'm rather annoyed with myself that I titled dismayingly chimpy Dubya notwithstanding, at least Fred Thompson can sometime muster up the ornery menace of an aging silverback. Ghost in the Machine
- There still are Trots in Ireland, but if they could muster up 100,000 for their own demonstrations I'm sure they'd be happy.
- The entire film is an exaggerated study in brainless women being used for decorative purposes, but it's so damn lousy that I can't even muster up any reactionary feminist offense to it. June 27th, 2005
- Time to muster up the willpower to cut ties. The Sun
- Before the guard had even realised what was happening, Leanne had jumped on his back, squeezing her arms around his neck in the strongest chokehold she could muster up.
- I listened intently, and presently heard a light “pitapat,” as if some one was walking across the floor; and while I was trying to muster up courage to call out, there was a sharp click, a flood of light illumined the cell, and I saw that the intruder was a man. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887
- The kind that module help you muster up the strength to either vantage that subfigure backwards discover of your eye or, at the rattling least, locate your @ss in a car that (depending upon the severity of your wound) is either going to modify up in the crisis room parking aggregation or enwrapped around a tree on your neighbors lawn. LXer Linux News
- For beginners, both require a tremendous energy just to muster up the mental strength to keep trying. Times, Sunday Times
- In an autobiography, I will have to write the truth, I should not hide anything. Just to avoid people’s feelings, I should not be hiding things. If I don’t present events as they happened, truthfully, it is not an autobiography at all. I have read Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography and if I can muster up the kind of courage that he had, I will write one. Rajinikanth
- Time to muster up the willpower to cut ties. The Sun