22 example sentences using make.
Make used in a sentence
Make in a sentence as a noun
" "Oh, okay, I'll talk to him and make sure it stops.
The money is good while it's coming in and you get to make your own hours.
I don't make commissions on placement or anything like that, just a good thing to do.
Heck, they're giving you free live-fire practice for your next interview, make the most out of it.
Not being able to request features for free doesn't make it against the "spirit of open source".
" ask yourself "does this management make me better as a professional?
They'd put the "Checkout as a regular member" link next to the "normal" checkout button and they'd make it just as big.
When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.
In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls.
To function well in society, it's beneficial to understand a little about how they work, and how to make them do things.
It's about creating a permanent artifact to make the Internet better.
Make in a sentence as a verb
This means, however, you are 7% likely to lose all the money, and we only make .9% margins, so this is going to be a No. We get that you don't like this.
That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast.
Recently I was with a customer, making notes about changes I needed to make to their application.
My default response to any "good programmer, bad programmer" post:A smart accountant once told me that the answer to "How much money did you make?
", in which case the answer is available to Paypal's Hadoop cluster but plausibly "Yes, with a p value which would make a statistician weep.
I would be very depressed on projects, make slow progress, at times get into a mode where I was much of the time pretending progress simply because I could not bring myself to do the work.
Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.- monitoring and QA are the same thing.
And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw.
I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services.
Paypal decisionmakers might at this point give Indiegogo the sort of look a school psychologist gives a C student with a drug habit who has just announced that they're taking a semester off to find themselves, man.
"I was offered the chance to make a phone call, but the only number I even have memorized anymore is my mother's, and despite knowing that my friends were probably scared to death looking for me, I wasn't at the point of calling her.
Make definitions
a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?"
See also: brand
engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution"
give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"
make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
See also: create
cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
See also: cause
create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?"
See also: draw
compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"
create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
See also: create
earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"
create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"
to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"
See also: form constitute
reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade"
See also: reach
be or be capable of being changed or made into; "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father"
make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
perform or carry out; "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call"
make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
change from one form into another; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"
act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies"
charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club"
achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"
See also: have
reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
See also: establish
carry out or commit; "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas"
form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum"
organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"
put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room"
head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains"
See also: take
have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
undergo fabrication or creation; "This wool makes into a nice sweater"
be suitable for; "Wood makes good furniture"
add up to; "four and four make eight"
amount to; "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living"
constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man"
appear to begin an activity; "He made to speak but said nothing in the end"; "She made as if to say hello to us"
proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest"
See also: work
reach in time; "We barely made the plane"
gather and light the materials for; "make a fire"
prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"
assure the success of; "A good review by this critic will make your play!"
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
See also: pretend
consider as being; "It wasn't the problem some people made it"
calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet"
cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; "make my day"
favor the development of; "Practice makes the winner"
develop into; "He will make a splendid father!"
behave in a certain way; "make merry"
eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"