He had always known that he could "make something of her," as he used to put it to himself, but she exceeded his expectations; she certainly was an admirable mistress.
I am even concerned that you shall find happiness, and I feel that you have the power to make something of yourself.
He's getting set to make something, and we know he's near Bluevale.
A trained man almost invariably tries to see what can be done with what he has and knows, instead of imagining what he wants and then trying to make something more or less like it, even if he has to look for the knowledge he will need.
If those kids had something that'll read your mind, made by grownups, maybe he'll make something that'll burn it out!
To make concerns what did not exist at all; but to create is to make something by bringing forth something from what was already.
For the further evidence of which we must remember that every agent intends to make something finite, as is clear from what has been said above when we treated of the infinite (Q.
For it is an act of greater power to make something out of nothing than out of something; because "not being" is farther off from actual existence than "being in potentiality.
But to act, which is nothing else than to make something to be in act, is essentially proper to an act as such; wherefore every agent produces its like.
I will undertake to make something of you, undertake to make something of you"--his brain tore the phrase to tatters.
He was just tickled to death, I guess he was, and he's going to make something dandy of it, so I stop long enough.
But give me time," he continued, "adequate time, and I will undertake to make something of you.
The only person he knew who had really worked hard to make something of himself was Spike Brennon.
Undoubtedly the two would have used the phrase the judge had used--they would want him to make something of himself.
There are certain games of cards--pedro, for instance, where you can not only fail to make something, but be set back.
He is trying to make something of it, something more than Mr. Harding and the party advisers intended when they gave him the Secretaryship of Commerce.
If I only had brought anything to begin with I'd make something to ride on; but I didn't know the journey would be so long and weary.
Do you mean," said Ellen, "that if you had anything to begin with you could really make something to ride on?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make something" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
