These, however, were so mixed and confusing that I could make nothing of them.
It was pleasant for me to feel that if all went wrong at Bradfield, I had a little harbour at Merton for which I could make.
If I only knew how to colour it up, I could make some of this better reading.
I was in the back room, trying how many slices I could make out of a pound of potted beef, when he rang my bell, and I only just shut my mouth in time to prevent my heart jumping out.
The city inspector of sidewalks was a barkeeper at the War Whoop Cafe--and maybe he could make it uncomfortable for any tradesman who did not stand in with Scully!
He had no bed for him, but there was straw in the garret, and he could make out.
She had not the ideas that could make up the notion of that misery.
The husband thought, if the ornaments were not redeemed, he could make a good thing of it by taking them to London and selling them.
We exchanged little conversation, and he halted at the entrance of Thrushcross Park, saying, I could make no error there.
She looked away at the river, as she walked with her hands folded before her; and that was all he could make of her without showing his face.
And if, after all, you were to come into this darkened room to look upon me lying dead, my body should bleed, if I could make it, when you came near me.
A man's domestic armoury was filled with weapons if he could make a woman feel gauche, inexperienced, in the wrong.
I went there lured by a belief that a man like myself, with muscle and will, even without experience, could make a fortune out of small capital on a sheep ranch.
These fellows" who had neither titles nor estates to keep up could make money.
Any young man could make some sort of Assistant Secretary; only one, just at that moment, could make an Assistant Son.
The best I could make of his explanation was that his daughter had been prejudiced against me by the fact that everybody at the Rigi Kulm had looked upon me as a great matrimonial "catch.
Bender delivered a speech to our class, but all I could make of it was that it dealt with elections in general, and that it was something solemn and lofty, like a prayer or a psalm Election Day came round.
If my younger children were not so attached to this country and did not love it so, and if I could make a living in Russia now, I should be ready to go back at once.
But then wages were comparatively high, so that a good mechanic, particularly an operator, could make as much as seventy-five dollars a week, working about fifteen hours a day.
My murderers very silent with intent to lure me to my death but I-- The rest of this page was so stained and blotted that I could make nothing of it save a word or phrase here and there as: .
Finding he could make nothing of him, the Dey sent him back to prison more heavily ironed than before.
She carried in her hands a fine cloth, and in it, as well as I could make out, a heart that had been mummied, so parched and dried was it.
As well as he could make out he was unclad, with a thick black beard, long tangled hair, and bare legs and feet, his thighs were covered by breeches apparently of tawny velvet but so ragged that they showed his skin in several places.
He knows everything, and he can do everything; I will bet, if he chose to turn mason, he could make a house as easily as a cage.
I now tried to improve my husband's taste, but we had few subjects in common; indeed he soon appeared to have little relish for my society, unless he was hinting to me the use he could make of my uncle's wealth.
I had been introduced as an object of abhorrence into the family; as a creature of whom my step-mother, though she had been kind enough to let me live in the house with her own child, could make nothing.
The motor of Tom's boat was in perfect order, and even an amateur, with some knowledge of a boat, could make it do nearly its best.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could make" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
