Sentence examples for bolster someone from inspiring English sources

Giving a great Globes speech ― one that homes in on the respective movie's messaging or charms the hell out of the boozing Oscar voters watching ― can bolster someone's Oscar attention.

There are also politicians who are bolstering someone else's candidacy, even if they themselves are not seeking another run.

But the weather may bolster the odds of someone with a gun coming across someone else he or she wants to shoot.

"He wants to bolster his credentials as someone who tells the truth no matter what the consequences, and he'll go into the 'lion's den' – a city that's overwhelming Latino – and say the same inane nonsense he's been saying in New York".

He manifested a serenity that "wasn't that of the ignorant or aloof" but came from someone bolstered by his religious faith, a "keen sense of destiny" and a "ready acceptance of fate".

But someone has to bolster the small group of backups — Turiaf, Toney Douglas and Shawne Williams — that now gets on the court.

One of the alleged cases involved someone seemingly trying to bolster their social media presence".

These situations are unfortunate, since the purpose of giving a gift is to give pleasure to someone else, not to bolster one's own pride or self-esteem.

The funnies have always been too lightly regarded as a great American entertainment form, and it's nice to see someone besides Art Spiegelman laboring to bolster their place.

And, he said, someone moved the hammer, perhaps to bolster what would become the police version of events.

Kim Jong-un appears to be naming someone from a new generation to bolster his rule of the 1.2-million-member military, said Chang Yong Seok at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University.