perk up

How To Use perk up In A Sentence

• Anything that could save the company money and perk up its cash flow was examined.
• Mellow acoustic guitars keep the beat, while Mead's well-crafted lyrics perk up the listener like a good cup of joe.
• This is fabulous with pasta and aged pecorino, or to perk up leftover roast potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
• It's a rare manager who, at least once in a while, isn't firmly convinced that his department's performance would perk up dramatically if one employee or another were quietly throttled.
• This is fabulous with pasta and aged pecorino, or to perk up leftover roast potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
• A giant community mural is the latest idea to perk up a shopping parade plagued by nuisance youths.
• They kind of sulk during hot summers then perk up to show off in early spring. Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden
• Note the cautious phraseology, which implies that these could have nothing more than a placebo effect: if you think a treatment is doing you good, then you may well perk up a bit anyway.
• It'll be nice to think living within strolling distance of both a multiplex and an arthouse will perk up my film-going.
• The voice is familiar to her and her cat ears perk up at the sound.