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
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Wells can grow deposits, offer more loans, and bulk up wealth management.
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Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
And in this arena, Katmai’s bears are better at bulking up than almost anyone else.
—Gloria Dickie, Outside, 24 Sep. 2025
For them, bulking up is a matter of life and death.
—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
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Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
And in this arena, Katmai’s bears are better at bulking up than almost anyone else.
—Gloria Dickie, Outside, 24 Sep. 2025
For them, bulking up is a matter of life and death.
—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
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 1 Oct. 2025.
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