How to Use amped in a Sentence
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Biden’s big event speeches tend to sound rather amped up and shouty.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
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The festival lineup in past years is a mix of the chill and the amped.
—Drew Fortune, SPIN, 6 Jan. 2023
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Edwards blamed it on his team being too excited, too amped up for the first game of the year.
—Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2021
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Their younger pass rushers can’t get too amped, run past the play, and let Rodgers escape the pocket.
—Sam Farmerstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2020
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But nothing has me as amped as our 2022 Food Awards, which are in full swing.
—Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2022
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In Performance mode, everything gets slightly more amped up, but this is no canyon carver.
—Abigail Bassett, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2024
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On the following possession, Davis might have gotten a little too amped up.
—Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
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Featuring dual five-way binding posts, the Passif 50 can be bi-wired or bi-amped.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 July 2022
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All the excitement of opening day and playing against your former youth baseball rivals had Kingston too amped.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2023
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The frenzy is also fueled by buyers’ desire for amped up living space in which to work and backyards decked out to replace vacation getaways.
—oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2021
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This week, the Turkish government cracked down on its de minimis threshold and amped duties for goods coming from outside of the EU.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 14 Aug. 2024
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Kansas handled Texas’ press and amped tempo for the first few minutes of the second half and even forced the Longhorns to abandon their press at a handful of intervals.
—Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
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Unfortunately, Bridgewater may have been a little bit amped up to get back onto the field and wound up throwing an interception on his first pass of the game.
—Ryan Wooden, ajc, 17 Dec. 2017
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Drummond looked amped early, missing his first six shots, committing a few turnovers and unnecessarily forcing offense.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2020
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For the grill-master dad Ah, summertime—nothing gets a food-centric father more amped for fair weather than the prospect of cooking for his friends and family from the comfort of his own backyard.
—Reviewed Staff, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
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Smart is unsurprisingly amped for this litmus test for his No 6 Longhorns against coach Scott Drew’s undefeated wrecking ball.
—Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2021
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The contrast to the Lingua Franqa stage persona – wide-eyed, free-fro’d, amped, pontificating – is striking, but Parker isn’t here to perform.
—Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
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Even without deliberate foreign malfeasance, if too many people got too amped and called in a panic about Venus, the government would have fewer available resources to sort the MiGs from the chaff.
—Sarah Scoles, Wired, 3 Mar. 2020
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