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Example sentences for: gearing

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Bobby Kennedy, gearing up in the fall of 1959 to manage his brother's upcoming presidential run, visited Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch to inquire after the Senate majority leader's presidential ambitions.
"The Republican attack machine is gearing up," Reich writes, "and I'm one of the targets."
My wife and I are gearing up for our daughter's third birthday party.
The story follows the negotiations, occasionally lapsing into celebratory narration ("And so a pair of skilled corporate sherpas--one representing each side--started gearing up for the climb to the summit."
Critics, many of whom admitted they had been gearing up for "10 things I hate about this movie" reviews, are charmed, if not in love with this week's Shakespeare offering.