Sentence examples for toning up from inspiring English sources
"toning up" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to things like exercising to make muscles stronger and firmer. For example, "I've been going to the gym every day this week and toning up my core."
For all the effort expended on toning up children's television, the accomplishments are hardly discernible to the untutored eye.
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It's all enough to make you wonder if post-apocalyptic road movies aren't for Australian directors merely a way of toning up, like Shakespeare for Brits, or movies about losing your virginity for the French.
On the other side of Faubourg du Temple, you pick up a wide median of gardens, fountains and children's playgrounds that dramatically changes the prospect, turning a trudge into a true stroll: grandmothers and nannies pushing prams, elderly men playing boules, kids playing soccer, soignee women toning up their Mediterranean tans on the benches.
"If you want to play in the Olympics you have to compete against Google and Facebook," he said, before himself losing the thread of his over-extended comparison as he talked about toning up and practicing.
Luckily, toning up may be easier than you think -- all you need is a pillow!
In the wake of September 11th, they toned up the rhetoric.
Famously, Maltman shed the pounds, toned up, and became a British baritone pin-up.
But more recently, America has toned down the unilateral nationalism and toned up the rule-based multilateralism.
Guests can tone up at the sprawling new Metropolitan Health Club and Spa next door.
