MAKE in a Sentence

Learn MAKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for MAKE, such as:

1. Two blacks don't make a white.
2. And I'll make you a mint julep.
3. Two blacks do not make a white.
4. Yet I would die to make her happy.
5. You should make your bed by yourself.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
make
 v.  bring into being by forming, shaping, or altering material
 v.  create or manufacture a product
 v.  put together from components
 v.  cause to exist, occur, or appear
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If I should be engaged, I will at least make notes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  Yet I would die to make her happy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  I'm going to make a list of all the things I've got to get.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  She asked me if I was going to the Red Cross and make bandages.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  She forgot even her own regret in her endeavours to make us forget.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  And I'll make you a mint julep.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  Such a mad act as that man did should make us all think.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
9  Pearl saw, and gazed intently, but never sought to make acquaintance.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
10  He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  They wanted him to make a fine figure in the world in some manner or other.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
12  Ay, you will make conquests enough, I dare say, one way or other.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
13  Extend it a little farther, and it will make me happy.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
14  Elinor now began to make the tea, and Marianne was obliged to appear again.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
15  No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 3
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Dropped kerbs make wheelchair access easier.
17  You should make your bed by yourself.
18  The panels slot together to make a compost bin.
19  Every week they get together to make music.
20  The two players together make a formidable combination.
21  The ship is expected to make harbor tonight.
22  We are expected to make harbour tonight.
23  Few of the trainee footballers make it to the top.
24  He could make trouble for me if he wanted to.
25  Take your passion and make it come true.
26  A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
27  Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier.
28  You put grease on a wheel to make it turn more easily.
29  Two blacks do not make a white.
30  Two blacks don't make a white.