bulk up
verb
bulked up; bulking up; bulks up
: to gain weight especially by becoming more muscular
: to cause to bulk up
Examples of bulk up in a Sentence
she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other
Recent Examples on the Web
For them, bulking up is a matter of life and death.
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Eve Chen, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Instead, ordinary black holes formed from collapsing stars might have had a chance to bulk up rapidly under the right conditions.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
All three warehouse clubs have broadened their merchandise and bulked up digital options, particularly since the Covid pandemic, said Marshal Cohen, a chief industry advisor for Circana.
—Melissa Repko, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich and Frank Greenway proposed ingesting small, nondigestible PTFE (Teflon) pellets to bulk up meal volume and increase satiety without calories, testing the idea in lab models and even patenting the approach two years later.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
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Eve Chen, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Instead, ordinary black holes formed from collapsing stars might have had a chance to bulk up rapidly under the right conditions.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
All three warehouse clubs have broadened their merchandise and bulked up digital options, particularly since the Covid pandemic, said Marshal Cohen, a chief industry advisor for Circana.
—Melissa Repko, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich and Frank Greenway proposed ingesting small, nondigestible PTFE (Teflon) pellets to bulk up meal volume and increase satiety without calories, testing the idea in lab models and even patenting the approach two years later.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bulk up
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“Bulk up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulk%20up. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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