Toughening (up)

Usage examples of toning.

Like all others of this type, its action is insensible, producing gradual changes, arousing the excretory glands to remove morbid materials, and at the same time toning the secretory organs.

He wanted to give the accessors back home a small feeling of excitement as the plane swept low across the endless steppes of dried mud, which meant toning down his body’s instinctive unease.

To pamper herself, she mixed up a toning face pack of elder flowers, yogurt and kaolin powder, lounging in the tub with harp music and iced juice while it worked its magic.

The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity.

From white it turned blood-red, the reddishness most intense around the edges of the hole blown in the wall and toning down from there as it spread outward.

Patching and grafting, toning, regrowths, transplanting of hair, replacements— all were but delaying tactics against the relentless pressure of age.

The gym was filled with the latest and greatest muscle-building and toning equipment: shiny new rowing machines, Stair-Masters, treadmills, Gravitrons.