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Example sentences for "that makes"

  • That makes no difference; the punishment seems very severe.

  • That makes a million," said the marquise to herself.

  • There's the million I gave you: that makes one.

  • There's your interest in the business; I'll buy it back for a million: that makes two.

  • It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

  • Conscience may be a giant; that makes a Socrates or a Jesus: it may be a dwarf; that makes an Atreus or a Judas.

  • What is it that makes Plutarch's Lives "the pasture of great souls," as they were called by one who was herself a great soul?

  • That makes no difference; the safest place is always the largest city.

  • It is the "little more" that makes a mere trifle of the National Debt!

  • I wonder if that makes me an Honourable too?

  • It is the meaning of life, not of death, that makes banishment so terrible to me.

  • Yes, Daddy; but it is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

  • Is it any wonder that the people in those days believed in and taught the infamous doctrine of eternal punishment, that makes God a heartless monster and man a slimy hypocrite and slave?

  • That makes me mighty easy about the future!

  • I never could understand what it is that makes people so crazy to interfere, especially in match-making.

  • Perhaps it is the novelty of it that makes me confide in it with so little reflection.

  • That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector.

  • You had received one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you.

  • She has a sweet Gainsborough head and a great Gainsborough hat with a mighty plume in front of it that makes a shadow over her quiet English eyes.

  • So that makes it rather inglorious for you if you won’t introduce me!

  • That makes no difference—a gentleman’s always a gentleman.

  • That makes no difference to me," rejoined Utrilla, making a gesture worthy of Roland or Don Quixote.

  • That makes no difference; they might see us through the ventanilla.

  • That makes no difference; it is their business always to bring you whatever you are used to having.

  • There are the La Balues--" "That makes four.

  • And we are ten to start with, that makes eighteen.

  • Gervaise Oakes is as discreet a man, in all that relates to the table, as an anchorite; and yet he has a faculty of seeming to drink, that makes him a boon companion for a four-bottle man.

  • There was a little occurrence last night, connected with Sir Thomas Wycherly's will, that makes me particularly anxious to see you, as early as possible, this morning.

  • That makes us all carry weather-helms among the other messes.

  • It is thy strength, my Love, that makes me weak; Thy strength it is that makes my weakness sweet.

  • Your might, Love, makes me weak, Your might it is that makes my weakness sweet.

  • I have fallen into the habit of spending my afternoons in the hammock; that makes me immensely drowsy just at this hour.

  • The men of imagination seldom carry, are seldom able to carry, their aspirations to a practical reality; that makes no difference in their appreciation of the woman who can comprehend the beauty of the dream.

  • That makes it horse and horse," said the umpire.

  • That makes it 'even Stephen,'" chortled Brennan to his friend and rival, McRae.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that makes" 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:
    good captain; headed windows; inch cubes; that age; that all; that body; that can; that case; that class; that direction; that gentleman; that government; that kind; that kingdom; that lady; that love; that means; that men; that most; that name; that quarter; that score; that shall; that would; that you; that your