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. I didn't make any phone calls.
2. And I'll make you a mint julep.
3. Yet I would die to make her happy.
4. I empower my agent to make the deal for me.
5. As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MAKE
make
 v.  earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
 v.  create or manufacture a man-made product
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)
1  Hard work can often make up for a lack of ability.
2  I am willing to admit that I do make mistakes.
3  I empower my agent to make the deal for me.
4  You don't have to make excuses-you're a free agent.
5  Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement.
6  I'll just make a photocopy of the agreement.
7  I want to make an enquiry about train times.
8  Cash alone will not make Eastern Europe's banks viable.
9  Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour light.
10  Never make fun of people who speak broken English.
11  I didn't make any phone calls.
12  In any relationship, you have to make compromises.
13  Please make every endeavour to arrive punctually.
14  As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
15  As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.