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.
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  • 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.
  • To utilise bulk-buy offers, make double and freeze half for a later date. The Sun
  • First, most people make donations to a charity because they wish to contribute to a good cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the halting-place they unbag a little barley and wheat-meal, make dough, thrust it into the fire, “break bread,” and wash it down with a few drops of dirty water. The Land of Midian
  • While most budget bikes make do with just pre-load adjustment, Yamaha has given the Fazer fully adjustable suspension.
  • His indifference to cars was also reflected in the fact that as a young actor trying to make his way in London he was forced to make do with whatever was available - invariably the cast-offs of other actors.
  • At the halting-place they unbag a little barley and wheat-meal, make dough, thrust it into the fire, "break bread," and wash it down with a few drops of dirty water. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
  • Passengers would also have to make do without entertainment systems. Times, Sunday Times
  • Icrc.org. you'll find updates on their latest projects and can make donations online by clicking "Help the ICRC," that's in the upper right-hand corner. CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2004
  • WANT a sure-fire way to make dosh? The Sun
  • His projectile weapon was hardly in a class to combat Graham's, but he had to make do.
  • Have to make do with quick dip and lazy lie under the fronds.
  • To utilise bulk-buy offers, make double and freeze half for a later date. The Sun
  • Imagine our surprise when we come back - having been forced to make do with filled croissants, salads and scones - to find two of said worthy saddos sitting in our seats.
  • They are found across much of Asia in summer, and make domed nests in the birch forests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why make do with a copy if you can afford the genuine article?
  • The parasite infects the brain by forming a cyst within its cells and produces an enzyme called tyrosine hydroxylase, which is needed to make dopamine. GEN News Highlights
  • The marathon public comment session went for over two hours, as homeless advocates and downtown business leaders brought up familiar points — that the proposal would make downtown considerably safer for pedestrians, and that the proposal is an infringement on civil liberties. More than 100 Folks Crowd City Hall for Hearing on Burgess’ Panhandling Ordinance « PubliCola
  • Hollywood executives and other interested parties had to make do with a live webcast as he took the stand in the long-awaited trial.
  • Cote de Lapin Wine Club invites our member to participate this charity. No matter how much you donated that will be appreciated. Cote de Lapin Wine Club will be the delegate to make donation.
  • By sending out our Christmas greetings by e-mail, ABP South Wales have been able to make donations to two local charities.
  • Otherwise, the players will have to make do with wheelie bins filled with ice. The Sun
  • The newly-weds who asked guests to make donations to charity instead of buying wedding presents - fly to Mauritius later this week for their honeymoon.
  • If you like a pickled egg or a greasy pie with your pint, you're out of luck; you'll have to make do with a ciabatta with feta and roasted peppers or a big plate of sweet potato wedges and dips from the daily specials board instead.
  • For many people, make do and mend was a harsh reality.
  • Faults are analyzed by means of an improved fault tree analysis, and several fault trees are built for every kind of faults, then make down-way quantity analysis with the minimal cut set theory.
  • I get terribly upset with people born 20 years after the war who make documentaries saying how it nearly went wrong. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is calling upon artists and collectors to make donations of original art and rare collectibles to assist in summer fundraising.
  • Mark and I have also developed many skills over the years so make do and mend is a bit of a family motto.
  • Until he deigns to bless us with his musical insights, we must make do with the old.
  • The national security adviser has always had to make do with humble and compact quarters.
  • The upbeat noises helped miners to extend their recent rally and make double-digit percentage gains for much of the day. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the mainstream curry shops make do with jarred curry pastes and powdered food colorings.
  • She was forbidden from wearing a coat and had to make do with a single T-shirt and sweatshirt. The Sun
  • They don't make documentaries like this any more. Times, Sunday Times
  • But now, at 63 and cruelly stricken by very-late-onset multiple sclerosis, he'll make do with the moon. Times, Sunday Times
  • This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
  • Otherwise, the players will have to make do with wheelie bins filled with ice. The Sun
  • For protective gear, many make do with long-sleeve shirts and long pants because thick overalls, gloves, boots, and masks are expensive or not sold in the markets.
  • Speed constraints on the World Wide Web can make downloading photographs of merchandise frustratingly slow.
  • They take the bingo dabber and make dots in the air to accentuate the movements. Super-suzan Diary Entry
  • Even Henry of England did not possess a Nicaean, but had to make do with Spanish stock. The Falcons of Montabard
  • People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts.
  • To make doubly sure they would not be disturbed she turned the key in the lock.
  • But the mainstream curry shops make do with jarred curry pastes and powdered food colorings.
  • In one canvas palace, beautiful people loafed around on pouffes, while those outside had to make do with slightly damp grass.
  • Or make doctors responsible for patients being eligible for treatment like in many other countries. The Sun
  • FDA issues emergency use authorization for intravenous antiviral drug peramivir in H1N1 patients Maxim Health Systems cancels all flu shot clinics at retail locations Health Canada issues medical device license for IMRISNV and IMRIScardio systems Kmart Pharmacies rewards its customers for having all prescriptions filled at one pharmacy Sonomed launches new PacScan Plus, an A-Scan with optional pachymeter Coast Dental offers smile makeovers with Lumineers ultra-thin veneers to patients State reports: Providers struggle to make do with limited resources Torchmark raises quarterly dividend to $.15 per share on all common stock THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • And if they had hoped to tidy up their beards they would have had to make do with a blunt razor they should have changed weeks ago.
  • The school had to make do with temporary classrooms.
  • Members of the Castle Point Bowls Club have been having to make do with a pavilion that is ‘falling apart’ and a centre where the women's toilet has to be flushed with buckets of water.
  • This notion that we should just be thrown to the lions and make do is absurd. Christianity Today
  • Seals and seams are known to be less than watertight, and many divers make do with damp suits rather than drysuits.
  • So I have to make do with second best but, as the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
  • Four other guests must make do with a two-bedroom annexe. Times, Sunday Times
  • How did one make domestic routine sound like connubial bliss when the highlight of my day had been the hour my partner and I spent together in the garden admiring our new roses?
  • He was for five decades a debonair man about town, a swinger musically and socially, the house pianist on the Playboy TV show and not a guy who had to make do with Hef's leavings from the grotto. Broadway's Last Good Time
  • They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins.
  • Like all sharks, dogfish have no true bones but make do with a cartilaginous skeleton.
  • Having forgotten his baseball cap in a hasty exit from his home after siesta, he has to make do with a flimsy local newspaper to fend off the Mesopotamian sun's hot temper.
  • We did not charge an admission fee but we asked those who demonstrated to make donations.
  • We've all faced it: red tape, small print, bureaucratic bungling or sheer unhelpfulness that can make doing even the simplest task a nightmare.
  • 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
  • They are not wealthy women—one of them must make do with old furniture that she tarts up with slipcovers she makes on her sewing machine—but their lives are made gracious by the circumstances of their time and place. The Secret of 'The Help': Envy
  • Whether should establish a special society donation law, in morality with legal war, we use what norm this abearance , make donation the abearance to no suffer embarrassed.
  • This notion that we should just be thrown to the lions and make do is absurd. Christianity Today
  • Showing ingenuity, some who are without partners seem happy to make do with wooden chairs. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the progress we have made, the progress that we will continue to make doesn't come from grand rhetoric, it doesn't come from clever-sounding wheezes.
  • Although we knew the tone of the evening when someone forgot the caldron and we had to make do with a fondue set.
  • The Volvo 340, which had apparently been abandoned, meant he could not erect his stall and he had to make do with putting out a selection of his wares on the tables, with no canopy over them.
  • That way you not only make doubly sure you'll obey instructions but you constantly reinoculate yourself with your own enthusiasm. The Creature from Cleveland Depths
  • When you cook make two lasagne or meat loaves instead of one, or make double-or triple-size casseroles.
  • As we shall see the grazers, browsers, and mixed feeders all learn to make do with what's at hand.
  • Many live either in accommodation not fit for human habitation or are without housing entirely and have to make do living on the streets.
  • The Dutch will just have to make do with rough-hewn success.
  • The Clinton campaign had long since ceased polling in unfriendly states, and now had to make do with guesswork. The Front-Runner’s Fall
  • So very interesting that the secret powerhouse in blogging - that tween alternative to the kewl kids myspace: MSN Spaces, now has ads (partnered with amazon and kanoodle) that bloggers can make dough on, and they are getting into crawling and enhanced searching through profiling (open text field on location doh: (and content. Brazil Pumped about MSN Spaces Changes
  • In efforts to make donating a kidney safer, nephrologists are increasingly adopting new procedures such as laparoscopy, an alternative to open kidney surgery. New Finding for Organ Donors
  • We no longer have to make do with the grubby white plastic garden furniture and collapsible click sun beds that were so popular a few years ago.
  • She also had a subsequent solo career, and then moved into television to make documentaries.
  • As they tucked into Dorset crab and saddle of lamb, guests had to make do with a video message from the great man. Times, Sunday Times
  • Richer folk lit their homes with candles made from beeswax or whale oil, whilst poorer folk had to make do with smelly, smoky tallow candles made from animal fat.
  • Or make doctors responsible for patients being eligible for treatment like in many other countries. 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
  • So in the meantime I'll have to make do with this little billet-doux which has come fluttering through my letterbox…
  • To make dough, allow yeast to stand in a small bowl until frothy, about 10 minutes.
  • From now on, you'll have to make do with a saveloy 'n' chips with mushy peas.
  • One day he comes up with this idea to make dog poop disappear with an aerosol spray…
  • We've bumped up the connection speed to make downloading much faster.
  • The combination makes it very unlikely so you have to make do with just this!
  • He hopes one day to be back inside the palace in a grander capacity, but for now he will make do with seeing life close up, and learning the locations of London's railway termini. Ed Balls: 'Tony and Gordon never found a way to bring it together'
  • We've bumped up the connection speed to make downloading much faster.
  • I usually make do with a cup of coffee for breakfast.
  • I have a shop to take care of , business is down in the dumps and so I shoot pictures with a heavy heart and some guilt..recession in the Industry has completely broken this camels back..so I make do with shooting street scenes , and my grand daughter .. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Whenever hubby and I make curry, chilli, stew etc., we always make double the amount so we can always put it in the fridge for tomorrow, or freeze it for an emergency.
  • The centre is cramped for space, but we will make do.
  • Until the late sixth century, informed guesswork must make do for history.
  • I quit consuming music products a number of years ago and make do with what I had legally acquired by then.
  • She was forbidden from wearing a coat and had to make do with a single T-shirt and sweatshirt. The Sun
  • Class, we have a new student today, he was supposed to be placed in class A but unfortunately they could not accommodate anymore students so I guess he'll have to make do with us dumbos.
  • Whenever hubby and I make curry, chilli, stew etc., we always make double the amount so we can always put it in the fridge for tomorrow, or freeze it for an emergency.
  • While most of the characters wore smart, tailored suits, made from authentic Sixties material, Shaun, who plays lecturer Lenny, had to make do with a lairy polyester shirt, full of static electricity.
  • This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
  • Make do with the absolute minimum.
  • Dave said visitors to the Royal Oak will have to make do with a pint only - the menu is definitely off.
  • He rode a hard race in 2003 for victory but had to make do with third place this time around.
  • To make doubly sure they would not be disturbed she turned the key in the lock.
  • He hosts ‘NOW’ which is television's smartest newsmagazine and continues to make documentaries.
  • They make do with pine-needle tea, roots, bugs burrowed under bark, and if they're lucky, roadkill.
  • That wood was probably going to go to some company and be used to make door stops or handles for axes or hammers or something like that.
  • Instead, when you do cook, make double quantities of meals that you can freeze so that you can draw on those when you're feeling too tired to cook.
  • Most households had to make do with radio - or wireless, as it was known. The Sun
  • Starved of ale there were grumblings of mutiny from the crew but we had to make do with a few beers and some boxed wine before collapsing into our bunks.
  • Post-Katrina New Orleans certainly could make do with a whole lot of efficiently delivered private capital, but somehow it was never kicked up, even in the headiest days of the housing bubble. The Web is Full of Riches - Anil Dash
  • He called the first ecumenical church council in 325 to make doctrine uniform throughout the empire.
  • They had to make do with instilling periodic panic. Times, Sunday Times
  • It seems likely to make domestic life more fraught, rather than less.
  • Taylor has joined the burgeoning ranks of the "underemployed" - the 8.9 million Americans who would prefer full-time jobs but must make do with part-time work. The Memphis Daily News
  • However, to make doubly certain, he sprayed on a second layer; then he set off toward the antenna.
  • They look aged beyond their years by the fierce sun, and make do with what they have, their destinies once determined by feudal khans, then Soviet masters and now an unsure independence.
  • Instead of gifts, the couple had asked that guests make donations to the Aconchego day care centre for underprivileged children.
  • In the course of a few days after his arrival he made a kind of cogged or saw-toothed type, the object of which I understood was to regulate the interruptions of the electric current, so as to enable him to make dots, and regulate the length of marks or spaces on the paper upon which the information transmitted by his telegraph was to be recorded. Letters and Journals 02]
  • The rest of us had to make do with Greatest Hits, an ironically titled compilation of tracks from those four albums as well as Dying Happy, a fifth lo-fi album of soundtrack music that came out in 1997.
  • Because few people who make documentaries have a comparable rigour, imagination or dedication to those of the people who make fashion. Times, Sunday Times
  • Due to space constraints, the museum here has had to make do with its own intricately carved gilded silver howdah and an even more impressive 15-foot-long coach of 1815 made entirely of silver. Conspicuous Consumption
  • They are found across much of Asia in summer, and make domed nests in the birch forests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hailing from a humble Christian home, he has to make do with whatever food is dished out to him in the school boarding.
  • However, in her absence, I'll just have to make do with thinking about it myself.
  • Oh, I'm sure it's nothing like that fancy ducal estate you have, but we'll make do.
  • She hadn't had a pair of kidskin gloves in ages; she'd had to make do with knit woolen gloves that had been darned and redarned so many times there wasn't much left of the original material on the fingers. Red dust
  • The “natural” state is for infections to kill, the clearsighted to be preferred, and guys on weekend trips to the Dominican to make do without big bags of contraband pills. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Constitution in Exile, Take 2:
  • Sadly, there may be many cases where we have to make do with the lesser of two evils rather than a positive good, but there is always a choice.
  • I can make do with that, if we mix it with a caffeine-sugar sludge combo.
  • Ironically, the ultra-modern solar-powered weasel would appear to be some form of very powerful and incomprehensible magic to those actual denizens of the Stone Age who had to make do with napped-flint powered chickens and crude wooden pedals to drive their dormice. The Contrivances - A History (Part One)
  • I just don't have anywhere to hang a cat hammock, so my kitty will just have to make do with all her other many many many many MANY resting places.
  • While they're gone, employers are expected to make do, whether by shuffling personnel, hiring temporary replacements, or training new workers.
  • We arrived too late to get a good seat and had to make do with a table in the rear room that gives on to the terrace that leads on to the lawned area at the river's edge. Ye Olde Black Bear Inn, Tewkesbury
  • Ideally, yakitori would be grilled over live coals, but life is rarely ideal, so we must make do with what we have - a ribbed cast-iron grill, barbecue or overhead grill.
  • Hailing from a humble Christian home, he has to make do with whatever food is dished out to him in the school boarding.
  • Because Peake's script presents a Creature who never speaks, Cooke was hard pressed, having to make do with elaborate pantomime and dumbshow in his portrayal. Cast and Characters
  • Or make doctors responsible for patients being eligible for treatment like in many other countries. The Sun
  • Combine all ingredients (except for lard) to make dough. Smithsonian Mag
  • The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is calling upon artists and collectors to make donations of original art and rare collectibles to assist in summer fundraising.
  • This notion that we should just be thrown to the lions and make do is absurd. Christianity Today
  • 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
  • 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 Italican and the Teuton parted company on their way from Central Asia. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
  • Make double batches of rice, pasta, baked potatoes, hard-boiled eggs and chili.
  • 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
  • A web service ( ". asmx") on the server to receive the new setup files (or any files you want to make downloadable) to be uploaded. The Code Project Latest Articles
  • The National Audit Office have reported that the Armed Forces are having to make do with ageing and sometimes obsolescent equipment because new systems are years behind their projected delivery dates.
  • Jewish families with a son or daughter to de-Christianize, especially Jewish families with no money, had to make do with Israel. Kalooki Nights
  • Few people still make documentaries as they do, devoting years to reconstructing great historical moments in painstaking detail, talking to all the people involved. Times, Sunday Times
  • This notion that we should just be thrown to the lions and make do is absurd. Christianity Today
  • 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
  • This notion that we should just be thrown to the lions and make do is absurd. Christianity Today
  • In fact, some of the noises the new creatures make don't quite sound right at all.
  • She may just have to make do with a witchetty grub. The Sun
  • They are found across much of Asia in summer, and make domed nests in the birch forests. Times, Sunday Times
  • This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
  • As they tucked into Dorset crab and saddle of lamb, guests had to make do with a video message from the great man. Times, Sunday Times
  • The new rules also make donating mutual funds, stocks, bonds and other securities more attractive.
  • Anyway, you will have to make do with the random mad musings of a manic middle aged munter today.
  • This hotel isn't what we wanted, but we must make do.
  • Entrance will be also be free and volunteers will tour the site urging people to make donations.
  • It would never fit again and he had to make do, most unwillingly, with a borrowed panama.
  • But their job was to be dull, and so make Doyle's fantastic imaginings believable.
  • Maigret had no idea; the wife of a divisional superintendent usually had to make do with rabbit fur or, at best, musquash and racoon. Maigret and Monsieur Charles
  • Most households had to make do with radio - or wireless, as it was known. The Sun

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