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Meanings of buoy up in English
Spanish
flotar Usage of buoy up in English
1
Each one did what he could to buoy up the mother's hopes.
2
It not only rose itself, but helped to buoy up its unfortunate brother.
3
That was the sort of talk to buoy up Steve's spirits.
4
He could buoy up her spirit with his own.
5
The demand for premium retail space will continue to buoy up the retail sector in 2002.
6
For rising merit must buoy up at last.
7
Under other circumstances Max would have sought to buoy up his friend, to make him see sense.
8
His hopeful spirits had helped to buoy up her expectations and assuage the sorrows of the present.
9
I saw that the best thing I could do was to tow the life- buoy up to him.
10
Two great myths buoy up this linking of a marine mammal with a person with an impairment.
11
Somehow, his hopeful spirit did a great deal to help buoy up the spirits of the other scouts.
12
Brad readily carried out the instructions, and helped buoy up the helpless boy; while Sid Wells took the other arm.
13
Bill Witt sought with mouth organ and banjo to buoy up the spirits of his downcast mates and succeeded poorly.
14
The indispensable condition of success is that the current of opinion and sentiment in the country shall buoy up reforming statesmen.
15
He knew better than to buoy up false hopes, for he had seen too much of the terrible side of war.
16
In part this is countered by planned increases in public expenditure there, investment that will serve to buoy up the property sector.
