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Example sentences for: perk

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The fado is much too solemn to be danced, so regional fishermen’s and shepherds’ dances are sometimes performed to perk things 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.
Mefloquine (80 μM) upregulated the transcription of four of five ER resident chaperones, GRP78, PDI, GRP94 and calreticulin, GADD153 and PERK (one way ANOVA P < 0.05, n = 20, FC > 1.3, Table 2).
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."
If Johnson can keep Congress from ending this $4 billion perk, he's more than earned his fantastic paycheck.