Sentence examples for be amped up from inspiring English sources

"He's not only going to be amped up, but probably a little nervous".

Two women about to be hanged for resisting the Nazis are described as "wingless sparrows," as if the genuine pathos needed to be amped up with a sentimental image.

"They're not doing anything illegal, and if you want to raise your children as liberal progressives, to be amped up about environmentalism and being pro-choice, you can do that," she said.

Similarly, a well-informed woman's request that her mother's meds be amped up wasn't so much wryly amusing as it was useful – so that, you thought, is how you get someone to pay you proper attention: bone up on the internet, be endlessly polite and don't let them off the hook.

At Glastonbury he played his set from inside a spaceship on the stage, making up for the fact that his performance is, at heart, a bloke in glasses standing still and pressing some buttons by amping up everything else that could possibly be amped up for a son et lumiere thrill ride.

People aren't gonna be amped up, jumping around as much.

You should be amping up your long-term savings right now, not scaling back.

"She was amped up," he said.

His buddy was amped up, though, claiming his friend hadn't done anything.

"The hostility is amped up when it's a civil-rights-type claim".

Ebeling acknowledged that he was nervous before performing and said that Rafalca "was amped up".