Great efforts were made to spruce up the old building.

He and his friends wanted to spruce up the neighborhood.

Last summer the members' room on the second floor was spruced up.

The town was spruced up from east to west and north to south.

She had never been able to afford to spruce up the place and make it pretty.

Other things appeared to have been spruced up as well.

Three sales make it easy to spruce up the house this spring.

The city recently spruced up Room 9, putting in a new floor.

Look at him sitting there all spruced up, she said to herself.

The historic center is not just sprucing up the old.

Change may not have been in order, but it seemed to be time to spruce up the marketing of safety issues.

The designer also believes in the use of white to spruce up a room.

I am writing a third garden book to spruce up my credentials.

The other place had always been a rental and needed sprucing up.

Recently, an effort has been undertaken to spruce up the neighborhood.

She admits the house could use a little sprucing up, but not that much.

Small wonder the park is forever in need of sprucing up.

"It's not so much that they want to spruce up.

He spruced up one of his arm bands, then the other.

She could spruce up the place with some magnificent statues.

"We want to take this opportunity to spruce up the festivals for television," he said.

His job will be to spruce up the creative portion of the agency.

For six years, one day a year, thousands of volunteers have spruced up the city's schools.

She had bought and spruced up her parents' summer cottage.

She ignored my comments and seemed to have a number of ideas to spruce up the house.