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Example sentences for "make ends"

  • I think myself half the suffering in after-life is brought about by worrying to make ends meet at such times.

  • A woman with little wage has to go without a great deal at those times, as we must give our husbands sufficient food or we should have them home and not able to work; therefore we have to go without to make ends meet.

  • You may guess I was always scheming and planning to make ends meet, which was not good for me or the unborn baby.

  • The road had to be operated as well as built, and few believed that for years to come there would be sufficient traffic to make ends meet.

  • Fortune, however, soon changed, and for thirty years there was a continual struggle to make ends meet.

  • We can't make ends meet on nine dollars a month, and one to be laid aside for taxes.

  • Not only had the small prodigal returned, but their monthly income had been increased, and no longer need the little mother scheme, plan, and contrive just to make ends meet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make ends" 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:
    creative work; great desire; make anything; make believe; make certain; make friends; make further; make game; make herself; make himself; make life; make others; make out; make restitution; make something; make such; make thee; make three; make treaties; make use; make water; make you; makes mention; not feel; pure nature; will attempt