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Example sentences for: perk

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So I perk up every time the notion of a free PC or free Internet access is brought up.
My closeness to the University is strengthened by a family legacy which goes back over 100 years to my great-great-grandfather, Professor William F. Swahlen, who taught Greek at Indiana Asbury from 1887-1914, and carried on with my great-grandfather, Joseph P. Allen '97; my mother, Harriet Taylor Allen '28; my father, Joseph P. "Perk" Allen '30, professor emeritus of economics; my brother, Dr. David T. Allen '61; my wife, Bonnie Darling Allen '61; and continues today with my nephew, Tim Allen '92.
Look for the shops of traditional spices and medicines, where reindeer horn and deer’s tail-tips are said to perk up even the weariest husband.
These pieces have long been a newspaper staple, but the news is that, in the Post 's words, "In an era when congressional gift rules have all but eliminated the free lunch, the free round of golf and the free night on the town, congressional travel is the last great perk."
The Rat Genome U34 array was found to contain probe-sets representing the ER chaperones glucose-regulated protein (GRP) 78, protein disulfide isomerase, GRP94, calreticulin and endoplasmic reticulum protein 29 (EPR29), GADD153 and PERK.