Sentence examples for try to gee from inspiring English sources

The last thing our players do before kick-off is try to gee themselves up with the musical equivalent of a couple of sleeping tablets and a glass of red wine.

Daniel Taylor The hour before every England match when Arsenal's pitch-announcer, Paul Burrell, subjected us to all that boneheaded drivel – "think of 1966" and "are we ready?" etc – to try to gee up the crowd.

Over the noise of the vuvuzelas and the excited high-pitched babble of the 22 mascots, there's plenty of industrial effing and jeffing as the players try to gee each other up before heading out on to the field.

6.36pm BST Second set: Murray* 6-4, 5-0 Monfils (*denotes server): The French fans are doing their best to try to gee him up, but it's going to take more than some cheering to stop him throwing in the towel.

"China, where are you?" called out a stadium announcer trying to gee up the crowd.

Mitt was just trying to gee up all those Florida auto dealers and Tea Party types.

Going into the convention season and September-October, the Fed will be busy trying to gee up the economy.

Can there ever have been a greater slight on the sports-loving Aussies than an opposition trying to gee them up?

I am standing outside a shopping mall on the outskirts of Istanbul trying to gee up my 13-year-old daughter.

As she prepared to make her first leader's speech to the Conservative Party conference in 1975, a speechwriter tried to gee her up by quoting Abraham Lincoln:You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Photograph: Andy rain/EPA Updated at 5.08pm GMT 3.29pm GMT Handsets unveiled: BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 Heins is trying to gee up the audience, but even in New York the audence noise is a little muted.