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Example sentences for "making ready"

  • Russia is making ready for an onslaught on the Northern kingdoms.

  • No Turkish Cabinet would or could conclude a separate peace and strike up friendship with the nations that are making ready to deprive the Caliph of his capital.

  • And, painfully aware of the certainty of this consummation, Austria was dejected and Hungary secretly making ready to secede from the Habsburg Monarchy.

  • In making ready on a lithographic printing machine, as in almost every phase of industrial life, method is the great secret of success.

  • This idea in its application to "making ready" at a tin-printing machine will suggest many possibilities to the resourceful printer, and if intelligently treated will rarely prove troublesome.

  • The "making ready" and watching the sheets as they come from the press to see that the "color" does not vary, is the skilful part of the process.

  • Up to this point, all the "making ready" which has been done, is of permanent use in printing all of the forms of the book in question.

  • I looked round, and there was my old acquaintance the ferryman, making ready to put off.

  • In an hour's time," said he, "if it be not too speedy a making ready.

  • There were no casual hits, even, and there was nothing to make the battery feel that it must be making ready for a quick trek.

  • There was not much for me to do in the way of making ready.

  • They spent forty-four years in making ready for a war they knew they meant, some day, to fight.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "making ready" 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:
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