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Example sentences for "make out"

  • I wish you'd confess how much you really did make out of my late governor.

  • Then, I make out, T'otherest, as he is a-going to her?

  • You'll produce your contract for the sale of the Mounds, that we may know to a penny what they're worth, and you'll make out likewise an exact list of all the other property.

  • Of course it is in Antioch, though how in the world you managed it all in the two or three days you were there I can't make out.

  • If he asks after me or Dan, make out we are looking about the place to see what is useful.

  • That boy could not tell them much even if he got there," the other said; "and from this distance it would need a sharp eye and some military knowledge to make out anything of what is going on.

  • I congratulate you on the preservation of your hand, but I have not been able to make out how my ball could have wounded you in the hand after striking your stomach.

  • I want my two hundred ounces, and I am quite willing to leave you any moneys you propose to make out of the conqueror of to-night.

  • The clowns were looking at each other in great astonishment, not knowing what to make out of a well-dressed young man, looking very peaceful, and throwing his money to them with such generosity.

  • What an unexceptionable Husband could I make out of both!

  • After you have expressed some Sense of the humble Approach of Florio, and a little Disdain at Strephon's Assurance in his Address, you cry out, What an unexceptionable Husband could I make out of both?

  • Behind, as we continued to skirt the park wall, I began to make out a straggling town of offices which became conjoined to the rear with those of the home farm.

  • I know your sterling character; but you didn't, somehow, make out to give us the thing straight, Loudon.

  • I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.

  • We couldn't make out what he said, but we was scared anyway, and begun to heel it back to the balloon.

  • We talked and talked it over together, but couldn't make out how he done it.

  • His voice was so weak, and the wind roared so, I couldn't make out what he said, but I thought he asked was the professor up there.

  • A curious engraving on a bone represents the head and arm of a man, and on the lower part of the forearm it is easy to make out a four-sided design which evidently indicated tatooing.

  • It was with stone tools that these people worked the mines riddling the sides of the mountains, and it is still easy to make out traces of their operations.

  • I can't make out that he's said or done the first thing to show it.

  • Nothing, as far as I have been able to make out, happens to him, for fetish reasons, when he first appears on the scene.

  • Meanwhile my indifference was vexing Princess Mary, as I was able to make out from a single angry, gleaming glance which she cast at me.

  • It was impossible to make out anything in the darkness.

  • I confess that, much as I tried to make out in the distance something resembling a boat, my efforts were unsuccessful.

  • I got three for my audience; two came over from the Institute, and one from that men's college which they try to make out to be a university, and where no female is admitted unless she belongs among the quadrupeds.

  • If he suspected the channel through which it had reached the little community, and, spreading from that centre, the country round, he did not see fit to make out of his suspicions a domestic casus belli.

  • A famous old story is that of Galen, who was called to the case of a young lady long ailing, and wasting away from some cause the physicians who had already seen her were unable to make out.

  • He had books to keep, freight waybills to make out, messages to receive, dozens of definite things to do.

  • How the facts were to help her to live, she couldn't make out.

  • I'll make out a deed and turn three of my farms over to Clara," he decided shrewdly.

  • There was a whole lot I couldn't make out at all.

  • I tried first of all to make out it didn't matter really what colour we used for the second time either, but the Captain cut me short here and said: "Nonsense!

  • I can't make out what's happened to them.

  • Tell her from me, if there was anything she couldn't make out, to look in the directions.

  • The Lovells being the darkest of all the Gypsies of Great Britain (and the most handsome, hence called Kaulo Camloes), it was easy to make out an affinity closer than common between the Lovells and the Hungarian musicians.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make 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:
    certain thing; here said; hermetically sealed; make believe; make bread; make certain; make clear; make light; make matters; make much; make ourselves; make preparations; make ready; make restitution; make sail; make slaves; make sport; make such; make sure; make thee; make themselves; make three; make war; make water; should need; what need