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shine up

VERB
  1. ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior
    She is playing up to the chairman

How To Use shine up In A Sentence

  • Two beams of light continue to shine up from New York City until dawn this morning.
  • Clarke renders ‘ut tersis niteant talaria plantis,’ ‘that his wings shine upon his spruce feet.’] [Footnote 87: _God who inhabits Lemnos. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
  • Good morning my dear. The Sun just up, shine up my path.
  • Sometimes a single slender thread, impearled with dewdrops, bridged the distance from one tendril to another, again a bit of cobweb was spread over a dead leaf, to catch a hint of iridescence from the sun or moon; and now and then a shimmering length of ghostly fabric was set in place at dusk, to hold the starry lights that came to shine upon the broken tapestry with the peace of benediction. Master of the Vineyard
  • He tried to shine up to her, but she gave him the cold shoulder.
  • He tried to shine up to his boss with expensive gifts.
  • He tried to shine up to his boss.
  • I think I'll go and shine up the car a bit.
  • Then all the foreign matter, the defilement which earth pours into them, falls to the ground, and into them the trout work up for life and health and food; and through their swift yet yielding eddies -- _moulding themselves to every accident_, _yet separate and undefiled_ -- shine up the delicate beauties of the subaqueous world, the Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife
  • I believe that teaching of the Master, so often regarded by men in this world as impracticable and unpractical, is not only morally the highest, but in actual practice it is the most effective, as the experience of men and of nations so abundantly proves; and the higher you and I rise in the direction of chivalry, the more do we reveal our kinship with our Heavenly Father Who allows His sun to shine upon the evil and upon the good, and sends His rain upon the just and upon the unjust. Chivalry in the British Empire
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