Words similar to boning

Example sentences for: boning

How can you use “boning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I was boning up for our Yeltsin coverage over the weekend and read that their GDP has shrunk 43 percent since 1990.
I was recently reminded of all this while boning up on my Spanish before traveling with my husband to Central America.
It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .