31.   The popping theme music and the laugh track I punched in to punch up the punch lines made it a genuine must-see.

32.   The pacing, the atmosphere, the rhythmic regularity of the scares that punches up several exhausted cliches and ensnares the viewer in a well-mounted, suspenseful climax.

33.   The reporters in Oklahoma, with no time to check anything and prone to punch up their reports, took chances.

34.   The script falls apart near the end when Chase acknowledges an unrequited physical passion for Elizabeth, which seems like a trendy way to punch up the story.

35.   The Tiptronic makes you feel as though you are in some video game, punching up performance with your thumbs.

36.   These days, scientists just punch up what they want on computer screens.

37.   These tools will help punch up sales pitches, brighten up speeches and keep everyone awake during those proposals to the board.

38.   Today, they have turned their talents to punching up flavors in healthful cooking.

39.   We will also be trying to punch up our sentences with more active verbs in order to make the column more alluring to potential buyers.

40.   Which is to say that one can imagine deeply tenured New Mexican bureaucrats even now hunched over their desks punching up numbers on calculators to convert miles to kilometers.