prime the pump in a sentence

Examples

1. Jeremy Harris, Honolulu's mayor, hopes to prime the pump with construction.
2. "This year we're just priming the pump, " he said.
3. Maybe we've primed the pump and now we're going to see the results ."
4. But to a certain extent, file sharing can actually prime the pump for sales.
5. No, but to borrow another cliche, baseball is desperately hoping it primes the pump.
6. "It's going to further prime the pump to start another wave of development ."
7. Prime the pumps, pump the polls and pay later.
8. Tohei describes this as " priming the pump " allowing the person to heal themselves.
9. It would be difficult, for example, to prime the pump by buying more sports teams.
10. In the current political climate, there is another reason to prime the pump, economists say.