We'll give you the sweepin's of the corps, and you can see what you can make of 'em.
I buy it because I think I can make money by keeping it.
I can make no new arrangement of my property till I receive this.
He has been encouraged by that aunt of hers, who, as far as I can make out, is a very unfit sort of person to be much with such a girl as our dear Emily.
The most I can make sure of is that I read the 'Conquest of Granada' after I read Don Quixote, and that I loved the historian so much because I had loved the novelist much more.
I had never yet read an historical romance that I can make sure of, and probably my attempt must have been based almost solely upon the facts of Irving's history.
But faith, 'tis a poor fist I can make at hearing anything.
And if my task is heavy and I cannot guarantee the result, I can make it very probable.
In that case, you will not be alarmed if I fail to return to-night, and you will satisfy any inquiry of Laura's with the best excuse that you can make for me?
Tell me what apology I can make to Mr. Fairlie for breaking my engagement," I said.
One of these days, when I can find a safe opportunity, I will take the note with me by way of introduction, and try what I can make of Mrs. Catherick at a personal interview.
I can make no excuse for myself; I can only tell the truth, and say--so it was.
I am so hard worked, that I can make no experiments.
If you have or can make leisure, I should very much like to hear news of Mrs. Hooker, yourself, and the children.
Though all at once cannot See what I do deliver out to each, Yet I can make my audit up, that all From me do back receive the flour of all, And leave me but the bran.
He that brings this love to the Little knows this love in me; And by him seal up thy mind, Whether that thy youth and kind Will the faithful offer take Of me and all that I can make; Or else by him my love deny, And then I'll study how to die.
When I wak'd, I found This label on my bosom; whose containing Is so from sense in hardness that I can Make no collection of it.
But sure, if you Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue, More than the instant army we can make, Might stop our countryman.
Nay, he can make Obligations, and write Court hand Cade.
O true, good Catesby, bid him leuie straight The greatest strength and power that he can make, And meet me suddenly at Salisbury Cat.
It cannot be that our Scheherezade, who looks so quiet and proper at the table, can make use of That Boy and his catapult to control the course of conversation and change it to suit herself!
I think, I said, I can make it plain to Benjamin Franklin here, that there are at least six personalities distinctly to be recognized as taking part in that dialogue between John and Thomas.
Without pretending to rival the alleged cases of life prolonged beyond the middle of its second century, such as those of Henry Jenkins and Thomas Parr, we can make a good showing of centenarians and nonagenarians.
We can make a book alive for us just in proportion to its resemblance in essence or in form to our own experience.
I hope it will pass off in unclouded brilliancy; it will, if I can make it.
Well, now, I can make out, with your help, what the young lady is; but what are the father and mother?
I will call on her to-day, and to-morrow I will tell you what I can make of her; but I think I had better tell you my terms: I charge three Piedmontese livres a lesson.
My pike is an admirable instrument, but I can make no use of it as my cell is sounded all over (except the ceiling) every day.
I was expecting something of the kind, but after you have said we can make no more objections.
The intermediate variety, consequently, will exist in lesser numbers from inhabiting a narrow and lesser area; and practically, as far as I can make out, this rule holds good with varieties in a state of nature.
But this conclusion, as far as I can make out, is founded on a single experiment; and seems directly opposed to the results of several experiments made by Kolreuter.
O, my children, if you could but learn to commune with your own hearts, and know what noble company you can make them, you would little regard the elegance and splendours of the worthless.
Well, sit,' cried he, 'all the return I can make shall be yours.
He read the dispatch and then in an apparently soliloquizing mood, said: "Sorry for the horses; I can make brigadier-generals.
I think I can make a guess about your vanishing well, but of the death and dry bones I know no more than the dead; if so much.
That the bones themselves should remain dry in a well full of water, or a well that yesterday was full of water--that brings us to the edge of something beyond which we can make no guess.
The statement would appear perfectly maniacal; but so far as I can make head or tail out of anything, Doctor Brown seems to have put it there himself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "can make" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
