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"Rub up" in a Sentence (23 examples)
I rubbed up the brass buttons on my jacket to make them shine.
The pitcher rubs up the new baseball with dirt to get a better grip.
Stains that come not by Grease are taken out by boiling Lemon-peel in Small-beer, with a little Copperas, till it be very strong of them: then with a hard Brush rub up the place with it,
Here’s a new guest for you; so clean up your house, rub up the mohogany table […]
[…] my next [aim was] to rub it [Moor-House] up with beeswax, oil, and an indefinite number of cloths, till it glitters again;
[T]here’s all the silver to be rubbed up yet […]
[…] every Morning when you Comb your head, dip a sponge in this water and rub up your Hair, and it will keep it clean and preserve it,
Bush’s handlers dragged him into his corner [of the boxing ring] and rubbed him up, not working very hard at it.
to rub up a lather
The new shoe rubbed up a blister on the back of his foot.
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I muſt rub up my balancing, and chaſing, and boring.
[Y]ou will have a nice quiet day to rest after the journey and rub up your German.
[Y]ou'll have to rub up on the other sort of navigation now. How long is it since you used a sextant?
There was a lot of yelling and gesticulating, and a few blows were passed. A couple of guards got rubbed up a little.
to rub up pigments with water or oil
[T]hose Europeans, that use their Chocolate ready rubb’d up […]
[The bursar] poured out a glass of sherry into a tumbler, and rubbed it up with an egg and a little sugar.
[Crude mercury] may be concealed in a pill by rubbing it up with anything of which you can make a paste fit for pills;
to rub up the memory; to rub up old sores
They desire a dead Minister, that would not rub up their consciences,
It’s a vexation to them when they would sleep securely, to have their consciences rubbing up and reviving their fears.
Sir Will. What do you mean Gentlemen? / Emil. Only to rub up you[r] Courage a little.
[L]est I should be negligent, Mr. Garrick sent for me to rub up my attention, fearing I might like a lazy centinel sleep on my post:
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