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Example sentences for "make their"

  • At a small round rock, near the foot of the lake, where they tell me, the tribes are given to resorting to make their treaties, and to bury their hatchets.

  • There had been sufficient time, certainly, for the two adventurers to make their way by land from the point where they had been left to that whence the call had come, but it was not probable that they would adopt such a course.

  • The birds were again skimming the water, or were seen poised on the wing, high above the tops of the tallest pines of the mountains, ready to make their swoops, in obedience to the irresistable law of their natures.

  • This seemed the instant favorable for the Hurons to make their push, as it gave them the entire breadth of the sheet to do it in; and this too in the widest part, as soon as they had got between the fugitives and the land.

  • The Anne and Martha were now within less than a mile of the all-important passage, through which they were to make their escape, if they escaped at all.

  • The governor, himself, or Captain Betts pointed every gun that was fired in the battery, and they seldom failed to make their marks on the hulls of the enemy.

  • These women came with deep grief to make their confession, and remained thoroughly reformed, to the great satisfaction of all the people.

  • Nor are the men behind the women in the fervor and contrition wherewith they make their confessions, and the rigor with which they scourge themselves and do penance.

  • After the sermon was concluded, the soldiers were invited to make their confessions, which they did with alacrity.

  • As soon as our people learned that your Reverence had ordered us to go to Sebu, fearful lest we might not speedily return, they all repaired to us to make their confessions, with such fervor that it seemed like the season of Lent.

  • The corps commanders were to select the points in their respective fronts where they would make their assaults.

  • He stated in his subsequent report that the defence was intended solely to give his troops time to make their escape.

  • Mussulman and Christian alike, all the inhabitants of Northern Albania, who had hitherto concealed their disaffection under an exaggerated semblance of devotion, now hastened to make their submission to the sultan.

  • After making this proclamation and reconnoitring the city and the harbours, and the features of the country which they would have to make their base of operations in the war, they sailed back to Catana.

  • One after another they hastened to make their submission, to accept titles and honours and money from the king, and to consent to hold their territories by royal patent.

  • The insurgents, caught between the two fires, were routed completely, and the leaders hastened to make their escape.

  • James, however, succeeded in making his escape from confinement; the Earl of Arran was recalled to court; Ruthven was declared a traitor and was beheaded, and the other conspirators were obliged to make their escape to England.

  • Bill Potts said they went to Liverpool, and then left for America to make their fortunes.

  • No one knew how they met to make their arrangements, for the prison regulations are very strict; but; they did meet, and managed to confer together.

  • At about eleven the crowd of people began to make their appearance as before.

  • The name given at Yale and other colleges to the person whose occupation it is to sweep the students' rooms, make their beds, &c.

  • The students having refused to appear on parade, were threatened with prosecution; and at last they determined to make their appearance.

  • His policy seems to have been so far successful that no revolt of these kingdoms took place; they did not as yet desert the Romans or make their submission to Sapor.

  • Cylaces and Artabannes commenced the siege of Artogerassa, and for a time pressed it with vigor, while they strongly urged the garrison to make their submission.

  • The Ligurians did not dissent; they only requested the space of two months to make their levies.

  • He landed on the flag ship and let the fleet commander know that they could make their way to Phoride, for a landing and their attack.

  • They tried to make their way to the main boulevard but when they made it, Dearborne stopped to see what the problem was.

  • They'll be busy about the airplane for several minutes before they start to make their way to the cave.

  • At first the boys had considered the advisability of waiting until a late hour to make their attempt.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make their" 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:
    his two; make believe; make bread; make every; make fast; make further; make haste; make intercession; make known; make light; make love; make much; make music; make one; make restitution; make shift; make some; make speeches; make such; make three; make white; more marked; never expected; storage batteries; what estate; will rise