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Those skills can be used to buff up America's image in hostile parts of the world.

Wheels, of course, are the primary way to buff up a vehicle.

Your friend's job is not to buff up job candidates' applications.

It's time to smooth away dry winter skin and buff up those nails.

Society had buffed up the little gods and called them classical antiquities.

All the more reason for the makers of vegan styles to buff up their image.

Though some of the films have been around before, they've all been buffed up for this edition.

"The entire system has been stripped down, flushed out, buffed up, and is ready to go.

Schneider occasionally used weights on the set to "buff up" for scenes in the movie.

Buff up your brooding skills and don't talk much.

His freshly shaved head looks buffed up with Pledge.

Someone had even managed to buff up a shine on the old pewter candlesticks.

"He had always been a skinny kid, but I noticed he started buffing up.

So, as a last step, workers put the steel onto a reversing mill, where it is flattened out and buffed up.

It grew leaner, improved its quality and buffed up its image.

His biceps looked like they'd been carved out of granite and buffed up with Armour-all.

After Sept. 11, the couple, who are in their 30's, buffed up their precautionary measures.

Another daughter-in-law, whose name she'd certainly be able to recall after a few seconds' thought, was buffing up Nanny's red boots.

'Of course they do,' said Jeremy, buffing up part of the mechanism with his sleeve.

You've never had to worry about anything but snapping your fingers so a servant can buff up the silver platter you're served on."

He would have liked to have Buffed up half the people at the Pringsheims' party.

"I would love to drop 25 pounds and buff up, though I don't know if that would help my career at this point," he said.

Carrot listened to the hissing of sand in the hourglass and concentrated on buffing up his breastplate.

Pool staff will offer you an iPod to use, buff up your sunglasses and ply you with fruit kebabs.

He now comes off as something of a down-under Marlboro man; it's not just his body that's buffed up, it's his demeanor.