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Example sentences for "make shift"

  • Rise, make shift to get me a rope and tie one end of it to a tree; then let the other end down to me, that I may lay hold of it, so haply I may escape from this my strait, and I will give thee all my hand possesseth of treasures.

  • I shall make shift to go without him.

  • To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

  • The reputation of the People's help Is all we want: we 'll make shift yet!

  • To make shift, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it.

  • To make shift, to contrive or manage in an exigency.

  • To make out, to succeed; to be able at last; to make shift; as, he made out to reconcile the contending parties.

  • I shall make shift to go without him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    last hope; lofty mountain; make amends; make believe; make clear; make concessions; make contracts; make discoveries; make game; make great; make haste; make improvements; make merry; make money; make over; make sail; make some; make terms; make them; make themselves; make trouble; make you; makes mention; night came; present everywhere; said steadily