Slowly, she perked up and her claws tightened on my finger.
Perk up To refresh the appearance of (…) New furniture and paint perked up the room.
Sohrab perked up at the sight of the mosque, leaned out of the window and looked at it until Farid turned a corner.
Productivity then slumped for a generation and perked up in the late 1990s but has now sagged again.
But when a different male's call blared out, females' ears perked up and they spent significantly more time looking toward an audio speaker 20 metres away, compared to the previous call.
She immediately perked up and started to imitate the sounds of the sirens, he said.
But his eyes perked up when Khala Jamila teased us about a baby.
But at my last words he perked up into a kind of startled slyness.
He perked up at the news.