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Example sentences for "make sense"

  • They must be added to nouns or pronouns in order to make sense.

  • Please to insert points so as to make sense.

  • Please insert points so as to make sense.

  • He stared at his partner as if defying him to prove it didn't make sense.

  • Malone riffled through a few more pages, trying to make sense of the contents.

  • Except, of course, a way to make sense out of the whole thing.

  • Shann swam wearily to shore where the wolverines waited, unable yet to make sense of that attack in the lagoon.

  • Shann's wits quickened as he tried to make sense of what he could remember.

  • When we are successful in helping patients and their loved ones make sense of their lives by bringing meaning to them, we make sense of and bring meaning to our own.

  • There is the power to transcend the situation as two people engage the events that are whirling around them and together try to make sense of their worlds and find a meaning to their existence.

  • How did it come to make sense in the first place if not because of my experience?

  • All attempts to make sense of 'scale' having been most complete failures, it only remains to read, with Theobald, stale.

  • This is no doubt metrical; but it is not easy to make sense of it.

  • It is again complicated, I don't think I can say it to make sense, somehow that he had to go, had to have enough gasoline or something to go there, not to make a stop anywhere.

  • Oswald seemed to make a convincing argument and seemed to make sense?

  • I had then suggested that maybe science was instrumental as an alternative explanation to his explanation but instead of supporting further his view, which just didn't make sense to me, he just restated it.

  • The way I'm acting doesn't make sense, does it?

  • Keller read the lists calmly and tried to answer the questions that seemed to make sense.

  • He had a sudden, deep and corrosive doubt of things which didn't make sense, like space signals and magnets which weren't magnets because they were capable of negative self-induction.

  • The one thing that doesn't seem to make sense," Dawson murmured after another moment or two of silence.

  • I know, and it doesn't seem to make sense," Dawson said slowly, and frowned.

  • A couple of things would fit that don't make sense at all.

  • Jack had argued, and then lost his temper, and finally grudgingly agreed that he supposed he would have to tolerate it even if it didn't make sense to him.

  • But on reflection, he realized that didn't make sense.

  • With Dal and Tiger helping he started back over the sequence of events, trying to make sense out of them, and came up squarely against a blank wall.

  • Perhaps that's why your figures don't make sense.

  • That's the part that doesn't make sense," Brion said.

  • This is an un-standard operation, and the standard techniques just don't begin to make sense.

  • I read jolif, joyful, to make sense; the MS.

  • For or read for, to make sense; for of disese, for out of such distress come gladness and joy, so poured out by means of a full vessel, that such gladness quenches the feeling of former sorrows.

  • I adopt this reading to make sense; but it is not at all clear why Caesar should have been selected as the type of a successful lover.

  • I supply perfeccion is; to make sense.

  • I was out in the sticks, you know--it doesn't make sense.

  • There couldn't have been a leak, Chief; it doesn't make sense.

  • This is an un-standard operation and the standard techniques just don't begin to make sense.

  • You've been listening to this stuff Lola and I were chewing on--does any of it make sense to you?

  • You seem to be talking English," Belle sneered, "but the words don't make sense.

  • Taking literacy for granted In preceding paragraphs, we examined what is required, in addition to a common language, for a conversation to make sense.

  • To make sense of disparate data and from them form new productive endeavors is a formidable task.

  • He'd gone back to sleep while he tried to make sense of things.

  • Nobody had mentioned Zan, so this simply didn't make sense.

  • VI When frantic bangings on the propped-shut door awakened him next morning, he confusedly imagined that they were noises in the communicator headphones, and until he heard his name called tried drearily to make sense of them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make sense" 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:
    chemical changes; make fire; make free; make friends; make from; make game; make herself; make himself; make inquiry; make itself; make light; make music; make one; make peace; make shift; make something; make speeches; make terms; make them; make themselves; make things; make war; make warre; make water; seated upon; should remain