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succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
We got by on just a gallon of gas
How To Use make do In A Sentence
- They had to make do with kitchen tuffets, orange boxes, a piano stool and a rocking chair borrowed from next door.
- This also limits his ability to make downfield blocks on linebackers.
- The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italian and the Teuton parted company on their way from The Unseen World and Other Essays
- How to make doing nothing - indeed REFUSING to "meddle" - look as though it is a real act of leadership. OPEN THREAD
- The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
- In one canvas palace, beautiful people loafed around on pouffes, while those outside had to make do with slightly damp grass.
- In the meantime, we must make do with his second indie single, the rather wonderful If You Want.
- The poor had to make do with giblets and entrails which was known as umble pie. The Sun
- Trade unions are also required to hold a ballot to confirm that its members wish to make donations to political parties. Business Studies Basic Facts
- As a result, the family requested mourners to make donations to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance appeal in lieu of flowers.