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Example sentences for "make the"

  • I went up-stream far enough to make the head of the island, and then started across.

  • I'll make the set of shirts for father, instead of letting you do it, Marmee.

  • I do, and I mean to make the most of every chance that comes.

  • To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.

  • It was clear that the young lady was badly frightened, and Mrs. Haffen was the woman to make the most of such fears.

  • But Miss Bart, it appeared, really did want to know about Americana; and moreover, she was already sufficiently informed to make the task of farther instruction as easy as it was agreeable.

  • She proposed to make the best of the situation until Drouet left again.

  • It would pay the rent and would make the subject of expenditure a little less difficult to talk about with her husband.

  • Then he would decide to make the best of it, and would begin to do so by starting the whole inquiry over again.

  • Why should we wait for them to make the advances?

  • And I want we should hold ourselves so that when they get ready to make the advances we can meet them half-way or not, just as we choose.

  • The idea is to make the most of what we HAVE got.

  • That made her think of the paper in her work-basket, and she decided not to make the careworn, distracted man ask her for it, after all.

  • To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.

  • To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

  • He found nothing in it to sustain his values or his will to live, and he was unable to make the adjustment.

  • They strove to make the paper a medium for communication and debate within the Afro-American community.

  • Some urban schools, like Columbia University, were accused by black and white students of diminishing the housing of ghetto residents to make the university's expansion possible.

  • Yes, and to keep them from buying, and to make the stuff go farther, I named prices to shame a shark.

  • He arose to make the round of the sap buckets again, then resumed his work peeling bark, and so the time passed.

  • But you are thicker and dry heavier, and you grow in any quantity around the lake and on the marshy places, so I'll make the size of the bundle atone for the price.

  • You'd see me buying an automobile to make the run to the county clerk.

  • Then when the person who asks me is not in his right mind I am by no means to make the return?

  • Well, then, I hope to make the discovery in this way: I mean to begin with the assumption that our State, if rightly ordered, is perfect.

  • An interview in Mexico City was consequently arranged and the staff man was cabled and asked to make the trip.

  • After waiting for some time at Key West for favorable weather, they at last started out on a dark night to make the crossing.

  • You remember my telling you of our friends the Storys--how they and their two children helped to make the summer go pleasantly at the Baths of Lucca.

  • By this time you have got my little book ('Hohenstiel') and seen for yourself whether I make the best or worst of the case.

  • We tried to make the monks of Vallombrosa let us stay with them for two months, but the new abbot said or implied that Wilson and I stank in his nostrils, being women.

  • But here Antelope sent his companion on in advance, making the excuse that he wished to study further the best position from which to make the attack.

  • I turned to make the circuit of the camp, which was a very large one, and as soon as I reached the timbered bottom lands I began to congratulate myself that I had not been seen.

  • Face-the-Wind believed that the prayer was directly answered, and though weakened by fasting and unfit for the task before him, he was encouraged to make the attempt.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make the" 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 quarters; circumstances permit; make amends; make arrangements; make believe; make conscience; make further; make her; make his; make known; make mention; make mistakes; make much; make one; make others; make peace; make preparations; make restitution; make sport; make such; make trouble; make war; make you; prove fatal; summer complaint; wicked woman