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Example sentences for "making the"

  • It was then voted unanimously that the Saints would move en masse to the West, and that every man would give all the help he could to assist the poorer members of the community in making the journey.

  • She was, every time she saw him, making the picture of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he really was.

  • The head deacon, as though to remind them of the value of his time, coughed impatiently, making the window-panes quiver in their frames.

  • And Varenka, even she seemed hateful, with her air sainte nitouche making the acquaintance of this gentleman, while all the while she was thinking of nothing but getting married.

  • A priest, making the rounds of his parish on Easter Eve, and sprinkling holy water in the houses as is customary, came to a painter's room, where he sprinkled the water on some of his pictures.

  • By making the canal of Martesana the water of the Adda is greatly diminished by its distribution over many districts for the irrigation of the fields.

  • Sometimes, indeed, they risked all in the hands of the Indian crew, making the pilot, who was also steersman, do duty as supercargo.

  • I left Fonte Boa, for Ega, on the 25th of January, making the passage by steamer, down the middle of the current, in sixteen hours.

  • In vain: his Majesty, with a singular composure, invites us to be busy rather with our own duty, making the Constitution!

  • The National Assembly, named now Constituent Assembly, goes its course; making the Constitution; but the French Revolution also goes its course.

  • The Jacobins are buried; but their work is not; it continues 'making the tour of the world,' as it can.

  • However, uphill work or not, the town garden must not be neglected if we are to be in earnest in making the best of it.

  • As for its fellow, the ceiling, that is, I must confess, a sore point with me in my attempts at making the best of it.

  • And even under the urgent circumstances prevailing in the modern industrial communities, the highest and most reputable universities show an extreme reluctance in making the move.

  • What productive use he may possess, in the way of enhancing the well-being of the community or making the way of life easier for men, takes the form of exhibitions of force and facility of motion that gratify the popular aesthetic sense.

  • In the most reputable latter-day houses of worship, where no expense is spared, the principle of austerity is carried to the length of making the fittings of the place a means of mortifying the flesh, especially in appearance.

  • Lydgate leaped and climbed, he hardly knew how, on to the stage, and was active in help, making the acquaintance of his heroine by finding a contusion on her head and lifting her gently in his arms.

  • A tune much iterated has the ridiculous effect of making the words in my mind perform a sort of minuet to keep time--an effect hardly tolerable, I imagine, after boyhood.

  • Dorothea had little vanity, but she had the ardent woman's need to rule beneficently by making the joy of another soul.

  • The keeper of a chandler's shop in a front parlour, who took in gentlemen boarders, lent his assistance in making the bed.

  • But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings.

  • The latter, by making the capacity of the body to depend on a proportion which may be varied by the absence or presence of a single member, has the contrary effect.

  • But in 1850 a thousand Afridis attacked a body of sappers engaged in making the road, killing twelve and wounding six.

  • By making the body of toughened steel (fig.

  • Manning, making the most of the word, "I suppose it's fate.

  • Yes, it was the cruiser, making the inspection in these western fjords.

  • Unsaddling and picketing the horses securely, making the beds of pine shoots, and dragging up logs for fuel, warmed us all.

  • Mr. Thornton is building a good house, and purposes to build other cabins, with the intention of making the park a resort for strangers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "making 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:
    feel certain; first officer; given above; human dignity; liaison officer; making body; making fire; making gold; making himself; making known; making money; making peace; making power; making sure; making their; making treaties; making water; many hours; mental evolution; novel disseisin; our knowledge; personal responsibility; sermon preached; social service; strong garrison; tablespoon lemon