pumped-up

How To Use pumped-up In A Sentence

• ‘He's a pumped-up windbag who should be denied the oxygen of publicity,’ she says.
• But this has triggered an arms race with bacteria, which start evolving to beat the antibiotics - and emerge as in the end as pumped-up, super-charged bacteria invulnerable to our medical weapons.
• It's a bit of a marketing cod, because when you see this car in the flesh, it very much resembles a pumped-up version of the competition from the side and the rear.
• But aside from the odd moment, the album gets lost amid its pumped-up ethos of hard, hard beats, raw language and stereotypical outlook.
• The album, Eye to the Telescope, is a beguiling record, veering from pumped-up indie to stripped-down acoustic ballads.
• The director delivers a film that harkens back to a golden age of solid storytelling and bold heroics, without the falsely pumped-up bravado of so many "major" pictures these days.
• The decision to push back the fences is not intended to thwart a growing population of pumped-up 12-year-olds but instead give outfielders more ground to cover. USATODAY.com - Little League World Series fences pushed back 20 feet
• These pumped-up strongmen show off the peaks and valleys of their anatomies, exaggerated by both their extreme physical condition and the intense lighting that reflected off their oiled-up, leathery hides.
• To my mind this is not surrealism but mere pumped-up rodomontade and very much in the vein of the purple tuxedo, typical of Hitchcock's style of dress.
• Smith, who was clearly pumped-up for the match, denied his team had taken part in any ‘sledging’ before the Test despite widespread coverage of verbal barbs between the two sides.