Use makes in a sentence
Sentences starting with makes
- Makes a fellow realize that he could take a day off now and then without deranging the solar system a great deal. [8]
- Makes him do it unconsciously--being bred in him, you see, and never thought over and reasoned out. [5]
- Makes the old gentleman laugh in spite of himself. [8]
Sentences ending with makes
- In solid fact, there is no clamor that is even remotely comparable to the dire clamor which that gong makes. [5]
- Do you see the difference it makes? [5]
- Our Ambassador has spoken of our Fourth of July and the noise it makes. [5]
- Now, I have no means of totally disproving such charges as this which the Judge makes. [7]
- But a man must put it in his own words, and keep the law which he makes. [11]
Short sentences using makes
- This makes results uncertain. [5]
- That makes the two. [10]
- What makes you think that? [5]
- What makes you think so? [5]
- The heart makes the theologian. [6]
- The woman makes the home. [5]
- He makes me so uneasy. [4]
- It makes me sick. [11]
- It makes me shiver. [5]
- That makes Austen senior counsel. [9]
Sentences containing makes two or more times
- This hour makes you my son, makes me your mother. [10]
- Sunday She doesn't work Sundays, but lies around all tired out, and likes to have the fish wallow over her; and she makes fool noises to amuse it, and pretends to chew its paws, and that makes it laugh. [5]
- When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
- It makes him very disagreeable, because it makes his breath bad, and keeps his teeth all stuck up with tar. [5]
- Happiness makes the universe infinite and stupendous, despair makes it small and even trivial. [11]
- Not going back to the records, but taking the speeches he makes, the speeches he made yesterday and day before, and makes constantly all over the country, I ask your attention to them. [7]
- That which makes the charm and power of woman, that for which she is created, is as distinctly feminine as that which makes the charm and power of men is masculine. [4]
- I don't remember that Lounsbury makes the claim in so many words, still he makes it, for he says that Deerslayer is a "pure work of art. [5]
- You know that she will not be satisfied so long as she thinks anything is going on that she is ignorant of--and she makes a little fuss about it when her suspicions are awakened; but that makes no difference--. [5]
- Some are born rich and some are born poor, and this inequality makes misery, and then some lose their possessions, which others get hold of, and that makes more misery. [4]
More example sentences with the word makes in them
- You live by your smallness, another makes his living with his hard hands, I earn my scanty bread by the thoughts of my brain. [10]
- It would sear your heart and spirit, it would spoil all that makes you what you are. [11]
- Ah, that makes your eye bright --so! [11]
- You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
- You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you knowing very well that in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. [5]
- Besides, you know, you'll be in costume, and that makes all the difference in the world; Juliet's in a balcony, enjoying the moonlight before she goes to bed, and she's got on her night-gown and her ruffled nightcap. [5]
- I don't want you to believe anything I say; I only want you to try to see what makes me believe it. [6]
- H. What makes you think you thought you knew him? [5]
- Why, what makes you think that? [5]
- A man like you makes a bee out of a gnat--a bee that brings honey to the hive. [10]
- They laugh, as you know, at Praxilla, the poetess, because she makes the dying Adonis lament, when face to face with death, that he is forced to leave the apples and pears behind him. [10]
- I'm getting old, you know, and any little disappointment makes me want to cry. [5]
- Did you see--do you know anything that makes you think he had been trying to do that? [8]
- The elixir made you happy, my father, because you are good and pure, and because the beautiful, to the pursuit of which you have dedicated your life, ennobles everyone and makes every thing harmonious that comes from you. [10]
- Your anger makes you forget many things. [9]
- Sometimes he gives you a look that makes you ashamed. [5]
- The examinations of yesterday count for nothing to-day--he makes a new examination every day. [5]
- In three different years I have written three stories annually: that makes thirty-three. [6]
- A woman who yearns for the regard of all men, and makes love a toy, easily lessens the demands she imposes upon individuals. [10]
- If a man writes a letter or makes report of an occurrence for immediate publication, subject to universal criticism, there is some restraint on him. [4]
- Whatever excursions the writer makes in fancy, we require fundamental consistency with human nature. [4]
- I thought I would like the translation best, because Greek makes me tired. [5]
- It makes life worth while to talk to men like you who do really big things. [11]
- He makes, at worst, a poor anarchist, though he is a good revolutionist; and the French colonials had never been divorced from monarchical France. [11]
- That is the worst fault in a gentleman, for flattery makes false friends and the flatterer himself false. [11]
- It makes the world worth livin' in. [11]
- She makes short work with all the pretenders whose only excuse for appealing to the public is that they "want to be famous. [6]
- It is the word "our" that makes all the trouble. [5]
- It is a wonderful thing to be so celebrated; yet look at him; it makes no change in him; he does not even seem to know it. [5]
- It makes me wonder how it can be guided--what will come of it? [9]
- Then I laughed with my cousin; and when I was once more alone I marvelled at the mercy of a benevolent Providence, by whose ruling a small joy makes us to forget our heavy griefs, though it were but for a moment. [10]
- Any one who will read his speech of the 22d of last March will see that he there makes an open confession, showing that he set about fixing the institution upon an altogether different set of principles. [7]
- Such a fire will keep all night, with very little replenishing; and it makes a very sociable camp-fire, and one around which the most impossible reminiscences sound plausible, instructive, and profoundly entertaining. [5]
- It makes me wild and murderous every time I think of it. [5]
- Will she, for whom my heart has built a shrine, Take from me all that makes this world divine? [11]
- This makes the whole a very gratifying result, and perhaps explains the absence of some names on your book. [6]
- Yes, a fondness which only his crime makes impossible. [11]
- She makes conditions which must be respected. [11]
- There's one thing which makes it difficult for me to soberly realize that my ten year dream is actually dissolved; and that is, that it reveries my horoscope. [5]
- It isn't that which makes her sad and haggard; it is that we are leaving Ireland behind. [11]
- Even in subjects which had no such elements of horror he finds the materials for the delectation of his ferocious pencil; he makes up for the defect by rendering with a brutal realism deformity and ugliness. [6]
- Happy little enclosure, where thieves cannot break through and steal, where Death himself hesitates to enter, and makes a visit only now and then at long intervals, lest the fortunate inhabitants should think they had already reached the Celestial City! [6]
- It is n't where a pawn stands on the board that makes the difference, but what the game round it is when it is on this or that square. [6]
- But--don't kiss me when I am talking, it makes me forget what I was going to say. [5]
- You see, Ulrich, when a man becomes famous like you, he is known for a long distance, everything he does makes a great hue and cry, and echo repeats it in every alley. [10]
- I don't know what the charm is about me which makes it impossible for a person to say a harsh thing about me and say it heartily, as if he was glad to say it. [5]
- I guess that's what makes me want to kick him. [8]
- And, he says, what makes a liar so particularly contemptible in his eyes is, that to attain his end, he must be constantly declaring and repeating the horror he has of those who are and do the very same thing as he himself. [10]
- I don't know what its secret is, but it is a voice that makes friends of everybody. [6]
- Loneliness makes you weak when there's something tearing at the heart. [11]
- But the point we wish to make is that neither society nor the law makes any allowance for the aberrations of human nature caused by dull and unpleasant weather. [4]
- They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
- If the stock was worth such a gallant figure, with five thousand shares in the corporation, it makes me dizzy to think what it would have been worth with only our original six hundred in it. [5]
- Strangest of all was that William Wetherell understood and was not jealous of this thing: which leads us to believe that some essence of virility was lacking in him, some substance that makes the fighters and conquerors in this world. [9]
- Yet the mistress was not moved to gratitude; for later, when the wife was troubled to meet her engagements, the mistress makes this entry in her diary: "Harriet sends her creditors here; nasty woman. [5]
- Perhaps he really was hungry; but, if he wasn't, what do you think of a civilization that makes the opportunity of such a fraud? [8]
- That, whether you want or not, makes Lassiter your friend. [13]
- For Charles Fox vows that conscience makes cowards of the best of us. [9]
- That is all very well so far as it goes, but satisfies no man, and makes a good many angry, as I told you on a former occasion. [6]
- It was the very weather that makes our home summers the perfection of climatic luxury; I mean, when you are out in the wood or by the sea. [5]
- The Germans are very conscientious, and this trait makes them very particular. [5]
- It makes the very cab-horses laugh. [5]
- True, he has vanquished foes enough, but the demon of melancholy, that makes even Dr. Mathys anxious, is far worse than the infidels before whom you were compelled to retreat in Algiers--far more terrible than the Turks and heretics combined. [10]
- It is entirely useless, and makes a more disagreeable noise than a Chinese gong. [4]
- I would not use that argument--it makes the user a fool. [5]
- But see the use England makes of this material: in 1877, she took out of the ground 134,179,968 tons. [4]
- She generally makes us uneasy when she begins to tune up on her fine-writing timbrel. [5]
- Miss Turner makes us read the Bible for a whole hour in the afternoon, and reads to us in the evening. [9]
- I have said, upon a former occasion, and I repeat it now, that the course of arguement that Judge Douglas makes use of upon this subject (I charge not his motives in this), is preparing the public mind for that new Dred Scott decision. [7]
- Smith understands working up a narration, and makes this combat long and doubtful. [4]
- Then they rose until they fell upon Jebel Shamsan, in its intoxicating red and opal far away, and upon the frowning and mighty rampart that makes Aden one of the most impregnable stations of the Empire. [11]
- The excess of unbridled power again makes it self visible in the wonderfully gifted man. [10]
- No, it isn't Tynie that makes me sad. [11]
- It is when two shades of the same color are brought side by side that comparison makes them odious to each other. [6]
- For twelve years two novels a year regularly: that makes twenty-four. [6]
- By instinct it turns to where help lies, as a wild deer, fleeing, from captivity, makes for the veldt and the watercourse. [11]
- It was not true, but the story had value for me, for it made me nervous, and nervousness wakes a person up and makes him alive and alert, and heightens the thrill of a new and doubtful experience. [5]
- If it makes trouble, we shall be sorry, but firm. [5]
- But he makes trouble for the servants, for he is full of curiosity and likes to take everything out of the drawers and examine it minutely; and he puts nothing back. [5]
- A smile of triumph passed over Caesar's features, and drawing Melissa's hands away from her tearful face, he said, kindly: "Alexander's soul pines for Roxana's; that is what makes your presence so dear to me. [10]
- It is this trait--absorption in self--pervading society more or less, that makes it so unsatisfactory to most people in it. [4]
- In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it. [5]
- You got up too quick, and it makes your head throb. [11]
- Who makes it too late when I command? [11]
- A hum of tolling bells makes itself heard, but not sharply. [5]
- The village--Dublin--is bunched together in its own place, but a good telephone service makes its markets handy to all those outliars. [5]
- It was made to walk among the trees and flowers, it is as simple as you please; and yet it has a distinction that makes you stare. [9]
- When you get to town, Mr. Carvel, don't fail to go to Davenport, who makes clothes for most of us at Almack's, and let him remodel you. [9]
- But "it makes to think," as the French say. [11]
- She draws them to the life, Monsieur, with a touch that makes them all ridiculous. [9]
- If we went to the bottom of this subject, I think we should find that the putting upon actors clothes to which they are unaccustomed makes them act and talk artificially, and often in a manner intolerable. [4]
- And I wanted to tell you that my uncle sent me a little legacy from my father-an unexpected one--that makes me independent. [9]
- Do not fear to tell me, dearest, for then will come the thing that makes all right. [11]
- I got Johnny to row--not because I mind exertion myself, but because it makes me sick to ride backwards when I am at work. [5]
- I've often tried to read it to Livy, but she won't have it; it makes her melancholy. [5]
- For she resorts to metaphor this time, and it makes trouble, for she seems to reverse the percentages and claim only the eight per cent. [5]
- Yet another way to look at it is, that the doing of something at the appointed time makes the man who does it great, or at least celebrated. [4]
- I will try to imitate you, and rise above the half-heartedness which is the bane of existence, and which makes the firm path of life a trembling, swaying bridge. [10]
- I was beginning to feel fairly comfortable once more, after my night's rest, but the look of that envelope makes me sick. [5]
- In a letter to be found in the "London Medical Gazette" for January, 1840, Mr. Roberton of Manchester makes the statement which I here give in a somewhat condensed form. [3]
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