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Example sentences for "not make"

  • For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

  • Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit?

  • Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

  • His salary was only about $200 a year,--but he knew that a fine church and great salary can not make a great man.

  • A hundred and fifty pounds of bone and muscle do not make a man.

  • Most of us are bunglers in our conversation, because we do not make an art of it; we do not take the trouble or pains to learn to talk well.

  • Do not make an engagement a long time before you expect it to be consummated.

  • Especially, do not make trouble to the friends who entertain you, when away from home, by excessive particularity.

  • Do not make this a subject of common conversation.

  • Riccabocca, "a thousand mock pearls do not make up the cost of a single true one!

  • Did not Socrates recommend such attention to his disciples,--did he not make a great moral agent of the speculum?

  • Oh, then do not make me deem myself mean, and the cause of meanness.

  • That would have been better also, but two wrongs do not make a right.

  • Oh, my dear lord and master, do not make it too hard for me!

  • After making so fair a commencement, it will be your own fault indeed if you do not make a great name for yourself in the future.

  • Should I not make a very handsome boy, Edward?

  • But our ideas and feelings, so seeking expression, do not make literature.

  • If your parents need your financial aid go to work and give them your earnings, but do not make a business of matrimony.

  • That is not a matter of great importance, Ellie, provided they do not make you do something wrong.

  • She discovered they were meant for the ears of the oxen, but more than that she could not make out.

  • Sir,' said he, 'I look upon every day lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

  • There was a lot more of this, while captains and lieutenants, sergeants and roundsmen held their peace and hoped that their superior would not make this an occasion for reprimanding them for some fancied mistake.

  • Then do not make me lose my temper," the Black Star said.

  • Do not make a move, ladies and gentlemen!

  • And if he hath said it, will he not make it good, I mean even thy salvation?

  • Why, he that saith, They shall come, shall he not make it good?

  • Hath he said it, and shall he not make it good?

  • In the same way, the words BOOKS MADE OF IRON ARE, in this order do not make a good sentence, but arranged in the right order they form a good sentence: BOOKS ARE MADE OF IRON.

  • The words NAME IS A JOHN BOY'S do not make a good sentence, but if the words are arranged in order they form a good sentence: JOHN IS A BOY'S NAME.

  • In the same way, the words BOOKS MADE IRON OF ARE, in this order do not make a good sentence, but arranged in the right order they form a good sentence: BOOKS ARE MADE OF IRON.

  • Why should I not make a penny with my vote, as well as he does with his in Parliament?

  • That is the law of your existence, and if you do not make it the law of your resolved acts, so much, precisely, the worse for you and all connected with you.

  • But no, Mr. Caudle, you may call me what you please; you'll not make me cry now.

  • You'll not make me afraid to speak to you, however you may swear at the door-mat.

  • If Professor Whitney can produce one single passage in all my writings where I said that men do not make language, I promise to write no more on language at all.

  • Parents may depend upon it that, if they do not make an attractive resort for their boys, Satan will.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not make" 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:
    about right; her side; little river; not come; not fit; not found; not give; not let; not mean; not mentioned; not pretend; not right; not say; not this; not wholly; not worth; notary public; nothing against; nothing doing; nothing more; nothing much; nothing shall; nothing should; nothing that; nothing whatever; notwithstanding this