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Example sentences for "made out"

  • The Bubi bell is made out of one piece of wood and worked--or played-- with both hands.

  • I made out five of the immense brutes round me, so I softly returned to the canoe and shoved off, stealing along the bank, paddling under water, until I deemed it safe to run out across the lake for my island.

  • Will a handful of imitation jewellery, made out of coloured glass and paste, be any temptation to a man who bears a rich diamond on his finger?

  • So the account is made out in terms of talents, because every sin is a great one.

  • There is a double veil, if I may so say, between man and God: the side turned outward is woven by our own sins; and the other turned inwards is made out of the necessary antagonism of the divine nature to man's sin.

  • The crippled rider went one way; the one frustrated in his attempt to get the carbine rode another, Venters thought he made out a third rider, carrying a strange-appearing bundle and disappearing in the sage.

  • Finally, while descending a very abrupt mountain-side I made out a buck lying down perhaps three hundred feet directly below us.

  • Among the chaparral, on the slope of the buttress across the river, we made out a bear feeding.

  • Then we made out a pin-point of white moving leisurely near its border.

  • I should like to read his "Travels" to see what he made out of the riddle.

  • Further off, reclining on a lofty ledge, I made out a livid mass, irregular and ghoulish.

  • Suddenly, I passed from abstraction to intentness; for there, in its standing place, I made out a long undulation, rounded off with the heavy dust.

  • With the breeze from the southeast, I made out he should have been in an hour or more.

  • Next morning the sun's disc could just be made out through a veil of thin stratus clouds, and then the light was more or less normal again.

  • A perception of the propriety of formally thanking her, and of timing the act just as he happened to be doing--this, he made out as he went, was obviously all that had been the matter with him.

  • You told me nothing about what was to be made out of the goods.

  • On the other hand, this theory must find application under particular conditions; a table must be made out of certain materials, with certain tools, according to a certain design.

  • As we drew near the town of Kirkcudbright, which lies very low at the mouth of the river Dee, I made out a group of men and women on the wharves.

  • And then he wrote this: "'Sir, his Majesty has thought proper to order a new Commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not see your name.

  • Before he could answer, the door opened, and he made out in the candle-and firelight that it was Lord Plowden who had come in.

  • I think I see the way that more money can be made out of the Company," he said, abruptly changing the subject.

  • I saw the lights in what I made out to be the Board Room," said the newcomer, as he entered.

  • She could be made out dimly in the light of the small lamp that hung by the hearth.

  • Yonder, above the avenue of trees on the Canal, could be made out Madrid, with its long, level cluster of houses.

  • Dolores' home consisted of a room about three metres square; in the rear could be made out a bed where El Bizco was sleeping in his clothes, beside a sort of vaulted niche with a chimney and a tiny fireplace.

  • With mingled races reversion seems well made out in the case of pigeons.

  • If, as others think, no such tendency is made out, the required evidence is wanting.

  • They was one big pool we hadn't covered for some time, an' we made out we'd watch that.

  • These six, with the shadow of insanity upon them, made out to launch a boat, returned to the island and died there, after leaving a record of what had happened.

  • One evening just at dark we made out a heavy black squall.

  • Already in my calculation I had traversed many times the distance, when, with a jump at the heart, I made out a glow ahead, and in front of it the upright logs of the stockade.

  • Presently Ives and Edwards, who were the keenest-sighted, made out a faint, suffused radiance.

  • After a moment, with a shock of surprise, I made out a shining pair of bead-points gazing at me unblinkingly from the shadow under the bitts.

  • When I arose from my knees, I made out an animal on the hill crest looking at me, but before I could distinguish its characteristics it had disappeared.

  • Across the sea he made out what he felt sure was a periscope of a German submarine.

  • Fifteen minutes later the four prisoners made out in the semi-darkness what appeared to be a large stockade.

  • From the top of a wooded building inside the enclosure Frank made out a large wireless aerial.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "made out" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully good; finds himself; here means; made bread; made effective; made from; made good; made happy; made haste; made him; made holy; made knight; made known; made possible; made prisoners; made ready; made reply; made righteous; made several; made upon; made use; made well; made whole; made with; small square; though seeking