Words similar to upping

Example sentences for: upping

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

In one view, loutish slack-jawed children, admitted to college only so the bursar can suck money out of their rich alumni parents, cheat their way through class and, if that doesn't get them good enough grades, bully their professors into upping their marks.
The tall, skinny Norton bobs and slits his eyes and twists his mouth into a yokel sneer and is wholly impossible to dislike, even when his character keeps crazily upping the ante.
Sensing opportunity, Ross kept upping the ante, like a Mafia henchman running a protection racket.
He made a triumphant return to painting, completing the dreamlike Swan Upping at Cookham (1915-1919).