How To Use Make out In A Sentence

I wrote a long paper last fall which you can find here in which I make out Gore as an epigone of Heidegger. Enowning
Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Trey listened with a patient ear, only making distance with the receiver when she whined or couldn't make out her blubbering.
Believe me it's far more difficult to know what to say to an unconscious loved one than the movies make out.
As she looked over towards Erik, Maria could only make out his silhouette in the dim light.

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At first instance the plaintiff did not seek to make out a case of an attempt to pervert the course of justice or of contempt of court.
Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
The tests make out that the structure of the frame is basically rational, and the frame can direct the working-out or recensing standards on the field of agricultural mechanization to some extent.
In the grainy black and white photo I can still make out the sheen of A.'s hair oil and the way he slicked his dark locks back on the sides.
We could nohow make out his handwriting
The best of the chateaux make outstanding wines that improve with age, in taste and often in value.
Through the frosted glass she could make out a large person struggling down the corridor. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
It's because I think he's a total stud and I'm hoping we can make out in the back of his car.
If I kind of squinted and looked sideways, I could make out the white crow perphed on the battlements, looking down. Water Sleeps
It was so foggy that the driver could hardly make out the way ahead.
As we came closer we could make out two men in a life raft with dye marker showing and flailing their arms wildly in the air pleading to be seen.
We also have to make out a Sight Draft , drawn on AmBank for thirty thousand dollars.
He jumps from one topic to another. I can't make out what he is driving at.
I'm making my second trip by the time she has it in the door, but no sooner has she set it down when she's off to the car again, yammering on about something that I can't quite make out.
At first it was so dark that he couldn't make out anything, but in a little while he could see something big and black and shaggy coming toward him, and a grillery-growlery voice called out: Uncle Wiggily's Travels
If you listen closely enough, you should be able to make out the angry words above the din: a cacophony of female voices raised to the rafters with one common message for their menfolk.
He's also partially sighted so can only make out shapes and shadows. The Sun
You can hear him drawing breath - tiny gasps during "Bloom," big gulpy lungfuls during "Morning Mr. Magpie" - but he exhales the same as ever: in a mumbly, monochromatic moan where the vowels are dramatic and the consonants are tough to make out. Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
As for the Ocean Explorer, I could just make out its low silhouette in the distance and felt a strange, brief, constriction in my throat. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
Being seated, she proceeded, still with an air of hurry and embarrassment, to open her cabas, to take out her books; and, while I was waiting for her to look up, in order to make out her identity — for, shortsighted as I was, I had not recognized her at her entrance — Mdlle. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
The shouts were merged and confused, but she could just about make out a common cry: ‘Kill the witch!’
The facts simply do not make out a tenable cause of action against this defendant.
The fiche was a bit worn, but you can still make out the copy, if you’re in a squinting mood. 11 – February – 2009 – The Bleat.
She could only make out the strong angular shape of his face.
'So far as I can make out that won't take me into the passport country, but I'll have to do a bit of footslogging. Mr. Standfast
Somewhere between his words, he has managed to move so close to me that I can make out light freckles sprinkled on his nose.
On the back you can still make out the contents list: potted meat, prunes and golden syrup. Times, Sunday Times
He squinted, peering at it and trying to make out the figures.
Distantly, to her right, she could make out the town of Chiffa.
The glittering threads of rivers twisted their way to the sea and Hayes could just make out the lighter wash where they discharged sediment.
I'm dubious about Wikipedia's tritanopia test -- I can barely make out part of the 5, and I have excellent color vision! Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
Your phone will continue to receive calls on its original number as well as the incoming 0800 Freephone calls, and can be used to make outgoing calls as normal.
There was a sad, almost tearful glimmer in the older man's eyes I couldn't make out.
You could certainly make out a case for this point of view.
As to French visitors, it was unlikely that they could make out its meaning, and if they did, as it did not concern them, they would consider it as a humorous boutade. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
‘I just asked you if you wanted to go make out,’ Elena repeated, smiling sexily.
Beyond the long entrance to Port Canaveral, I could make out the towers of a launchpad. VITALS
He tried to make out the name on the signature line, but all he got was an ‘M’ followed by a squiggle, and an ‘O’ followed by a longer squiggle with a big bump near the beginning.
Her eyes squinted madly, trying to make out the manner of the commotion around them.
And from what Thorn could make out, he had spindly legs and a pronounced potbelly. BLACKWATER SOUND
Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Karen, as far I could make out, was a lovely girl, very kind, but with a cheeky, wicked sense of humour that matched the impish glint in her eye.
Rather than the Bush administration's proposal to make out-of-pocket expenses deductible via expanded medical savings accounts, I favor removing the excludability of health-insurance premiums from taxable income. Samwick, Thoma, and Pearlstein on Health Care Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Perhaps if we consider the pictures/descriptions on the website to be false statements instead of misleading ones (false by necessary implication?), a (a) (1) (B) violation would actually be easier to make out than a multifactor confusion analysis. Archive 2009-08-01
Ivya grew closer and closer, squinting her eyes to make out the figure.
If I squint I can just make out a bejewelled monk on a throne.
Joseph could make out a couch and table on the far wall, but the couch was covered with heaps of clothes, newspapers, and assorted gimcracks. Missionaries
So far as I can make out, the only people who read blogs are other bloggers.
The room was dark, but Tessa could make out his defeated expression, his eyes emotionless and hollow.
I could just make out the tiny points of a car's headlights far away.
I'll admit that I was more than a little jumpy as I made my way through this gauntlet of jimsonweed and Huggies, but as I grew closer and began to make out the outline of the bunker's entrance, I heard music, faintly at first, but growing louder with each footstep until I finally recognized it as ABBA's Waterloo. Live blogging for Lieberman or how Bill Kristol saved my life
I couldn't quite make out whether the doc was peeved because I was back again or genuinely surprised to see me again so soon.
Turning round, they could dimly make out two buggies, evidently in a race. THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
He could make out the name carved into the shattered marble—BARONNE. Etched in Bone
Quentin could not make out the contents, but assumed they were the diapson crystals. Morgawr
They have no personality, and if you try and study them closely in the dream, you can't make out any detail on their face.
Though it was night and darkness had fallen, she could still make out one building, blazing like hellfire.
But in the darkness of the park we make out a dozen hooded figures skulking in a children's play area.
When I think of the old Allen Street school, with its hard and ugly lines, where the gas had to be kept burning even on the brightest days, recitations suspended every half-hour, and the children made to practice calisthenics so that they should not catch cold while the windows were opened to let in fresh air; of the dark playground downstairs, with the rats keeping up such a racket that one could hardly hear himself speak at times; or of that other East Side playground where the boys werent allowed to speak above a whisper, so as not to disturb those studying overhead, I fancy that I can make out both the cause and the cure of the boys desperation. XIII. Justice to the Boy
Tote in pidgin and keeler -- make out of cedar and cypress. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
So I hear there's a steamy make out scene in the movie.
At last they had bribed a man to light a fire in the hills behind the town, and so on the fourth night they got somewhere near it, but they could not make out the ships on account of the _dark land behind_ them. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha
To the untrained eye, their movements were only highlighted by the flickers of light that emanated from their swords, but Geoff's eyes could make out each move that they were executing.
Beyond that, he could make out buildings of some sort, but mostly everything was obscured by thick fog rolling through.
He could even make out the belfry, the arched entryway.
The walls were papered with graphs, equations, posters of graph, calculator schematics, and some diagrams I couldn't even make out.
Mike likes to make out that he's tough, but he's a pussy cat really.
Through the dark mist, I could make out the faint shape of a large cat.
Deanna could make out the tiny red pinpricks of fighters and missiles swarming toward the two ships as they accelerated madly to attempt an escape.
All I can make out is that she has black hair and eyes, a fair complexion, and a very bad temper.
I could just make out a figure in the darkness.
When one strained oneself to listen to the speaker one could make out that some important male writers were speaking in generalities.
He tried to make out the design that had once colored the faded carpet on the floor, and wondered about the dead artist in Japan, the adorner of his bureau. The Hill of Dreams
Through the mist I could just make out a vague figure.
Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Now I can make out the huge blocks of stone naturally eroded into these surprisingly regular shapes.
The New Order is an outcome of their ideas, a sort of feminine _vehmgericht_ so well as I can make out. The Heavenly Twins
Claire could just make out the floral print pattern of the skirt under the beige winter coat.
An advocate for John could make out a case for him on this score also.
At the far end of the room, I can just about make out a vision in crow-black and oversized sunglasses sitting behind a huge white desk. Zaha Hadid: 'I'm happy to be on the outside'
All I could make out was the figure of a broad-shouldered man.
As I can't make out individual players, I'm having to guess who they are based on playing style - overhit passes, losing control of the ball, etc. Bolton Wanderers v Liverpool - as it happened!
She looked outward, and could just make out a two-legged, tramping shape making little twists and rolls ahead of her.
He could just make out the superstructure: some kind of a coastal freighter. CORMORANT
You could see the eyes glint, and teeth gleam, and great mascaraed eyelashes like spiders' legs, but you couldn't really make out the words. Christina Patterson: We Loved You, Sarah, Because You Made Us Feel Smart
My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Ferule & Fescue
I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
If you can make out a soft purr, or a meow, or maybe the gentle sound of milk being lapped up from a dish, do not assume that your ears are deceiving you.
Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Near as I can make out, it was what they call appendicitis nowadays, and had come on him in the night. In the Arena Stories of Political Life
Ahead, I could make out the lurid colours of my safe haven. Times, Sunday Times
She carried in her hands a fine cloth, and in it, as well as I could make out, a heart that had been mummied, so parched and dried was it. Don Quixote
They were trying to make out that I'd actually done it.
Peer at the piece very closely and you may just make out the traces of what look like scars on the surface of the cellulose paint which coats these two huge bronze casts.
I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
You can make out a case for changing our teaching methods.
And thus much for the second thing considerable in the dehortation; namely, the thing we are therein dehorted from, which is that mean, sordid, and degrading vice of covetousness: the nature of which I have been endeavouring to make out, both negatively, by shewing what it is not; and positively, by shewing what it is, and wherein it consists. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
We only drove as far as a deserted street by the railroad tracks in our hometown so we could make out.
I stared upwards into the gloom and could make out the outline of a face, with two eyes staring straight at me.
Cooper saw her squinch up her eyes, trying to make out who was standing outside her kitchen window. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 13: AND IT HARM NONE
From this distance, about a hundred meters, he could make out beetled brows, and kerchiefs around noses and mouths.
The man moved his head slightly so I could make out a brown doggish snout and a black nose.
Lucien is exactly the kind of guy to make out with random girls in bars.
Set in a bar, this is a series of flirtations, tiffs, relationships that make out or don't, full of vigorous, jazzy, skittish dances - though there are sags in interest.
Flurries of snow drift down gently outside our windows, through which we can just make out the dark silhouettes of the surrounding peaks.
By squinting hard I could make out the strange line of vapour which stretched across the sky, a little more ragged now. Anti-Ice
Let's make out that we are wrecked on a desert island.
Villagers fear that future generations will not be able to make out the details.
I thought I could just make out a tree-covered ridge protruding through the thick layer of clouds.
In today's Dubrovnik, you can just make out the joins where new stone has been melded with old, like the scars of a past life.
Then she began to make out dim shapes that in a few moments revealed themselves to be crates, tackle, ropes, barrels, and hooks.
Joshua could make out that while some archers carried one quiver of arrows, many carried up to three.
Objective To analyse the intestinal helminthiasis epidemic situation and to evaluate the control effect in past ten years so as to make out the control strategy in Sichuan Province.
Before they had covered a mile the clouds suddenly opened overhead, and the crescent moon and the stars showed through and gave them enough light to make out the chimneystack of the ruined mill against the night sky. The Seventh Scroll
He could just make out the superstructure: some kind of a coastal freighter. CORMORANT
I can't make out -- "musingly," where she can have gone! not that she is just the company I desire. Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
We had to drive over rice to get here, laid out on the road to dry or cure or some other food processing I could not make out in the squall of information they gave me.
He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust.
When killed the capon was found to be very fat: there were masses of fat around the intestines and under the peritoneum, which made it impossible to make out details such as ureter and vas deferens properly. Hormones and Heredity
If you can't quite see the actors who are in deep shadow, and you can't quite make out what the leading lady is saying, the evening becomes a bit of an uphill climb.
The music pouring from the earphones is loud; we listen in, though we cannot make out the lyrics.
If you look at the bag with a transmitted x-ray, you can make out various things - a radio, a shoehorn, shaving cream.
For instance, if I zoom down to my estate in east London I can clearly make out parked cars, or the trains on the nearby railway.
Finally, when his eyes fluttered open and light entered stabbingly so that he had to close them again, he could make out sentences. The Martian Way
When we see how you make out, we'll talk about the possibility of more lasting employment.
Which is his real mother Lucy cannot quite make out, for she sees an immense party of black women, all shiny and polished, with a great many beads wound round their heads, necks, ankles, and wrists; and nothing besides the tiniest short petticoats: and all the fattest are the smartest; indeed, they have gourds of milk beside them, and are drinking it all day long to keep themselves fat. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe
It was just a gray fuzzball; she could make out his outline, but none of his features.
We could distinctly make out the anchor winch, life raft holders and torpedo-loading hatch.
'Every one o' them wrong things as you does seems to make out o 'the burk o' the airth a sap o 'its own as has got its own pertickler stare, but allus it's a hungry sap, Hal, an' a sap wi 'bloody fangs. Aylwin
And Iâ€ ™ m arguing, finally, that that relationship is one of convergence; that in the strange new world of immateriality toward which the engines of production have long been driving us, we can now at last make out the contours of a more familiar realm of the insubstantialâ€ the realm of games and make-believe. Inkblurt · Dibbell on the game-reality shift
She couldn't make out the face of the man with Wanaka, as she peered from the door of the tent, but if he was from Hedgeville he would know her. The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire
She lip-reads, and at home little Elliott often helps with his finger spelling when his mum cannot make out a consonant.
I was privately grateful that it was too dark to make out the edge of the precipice.
If you can make out a soft purr, or a meow, or maybe the gentle sound of milk being lapped up from a dish, do not assume that your ears are deceiving you.
They could hardly make out where the road was in the darkness.
It was so far away that I could barely make out the gleam of reflected light.
As the lights grew brighter, and his vision adjusted, Mark was able to make out a figure in the distance, running toward him.
I was just able to make out a dark figure in the distance.
Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
As he stepped into a dim beam of light, I could make out his face; the face of a tortured man whose entire life had been called into question.
I can only make out a shadow since everything is dark, and the room is splashed with alternating flickering colors.
Not so long ago, I met a chap as used to work for somebody called Snowdon, and from what I can make out it was Snowdon's brother at home, him as we use to ere so much about. The Nether World
He gets off on watching people make out in cars -- until he discovers that the smoocher is his own kid. BRING ON THE BENCH WARMERS
The final straw is when, in a scene that makes even the most innocuous Hindi movie seem lubricious to the extreme, they finally make out.
Sometimes you make out snakes, a belly dancer, a leering mouth. SKORPION'S DEATH
For instance, a considerable number of different types of blood poisoning, septicaemia, pyaemia, gangrene, inflammation of wounds, or formation of pus from slight skin wounds -- indeed, a host of miscellaneous troubles, ranging all the way from a slight pus formation to a violent and severe blood poisoning -- all appear to be caused by bacteria, and it is impossible to make out any definite species associated with the different types of these troubles. The Story of Germ Life
In the faint light of what is left of day, she can barely make out the road ahead.
Instead, American viewers will have to strain to make out whole words from the constant babble of wild sound and West Indian accents.
But if you look at the studies, it's pretty hard to make out a case for women in pregnancy experiencing all but the most minuscule possible risk to themselves or their infants.
The shade was too deep to make out his face, but Torak saw that like him, he wore a sleeveless buckskin jerkin and knee-length leggings, with light rawhide boots. Excerpt: Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver
She suddenly said she could make out the letters S-O-N in blackish paint in the upper right area of the mural. Boing Boing
It just looked like an inkblot if I was being honest, but I could make out a few numbers.
I know not! It maffles and talks. But all I could make out is that Collop Monday falls on a Tuesday next year.
Instead, from what I could make out over the music, her voice sounded shaky and weak.
Distantly, to her right, she could make out the town of Chiffa.
In the corner of her eye, she could just make out the other Rangers proceeding forward as she had done.
And from what Thorn could make out, he had spindly legs and a pronounced potbelly. BLACKWATER SOUND
I don't mind admitting that last year was a dark one, full of intrigue and mystery and exciting opportunities and all those other things which media and parents make out to be the stuff of youth.
Through the darkness I could make out a modest, tan coloured house with an overgrown garden and grubby looking shudders drooping from the windows.
Alan could make out ornate engraving across the surface and for the first time noticed the small feet that protruded from under the rim.
If he pressed down with his fingertips he could palpate the skin, make out her organs beneath it: stomach, liver, spleen, upper intestines, lower intestines, bladder. Time of Death
In the scant amount of light from the street lights, I was able to make out his face, not exactly clearly, but enough to know who it was.
Distantly, to her right, she could make out the city of Shanghai.
The room was dark, but he was finally able to make out a heraldic device stamped on a small leather coffer — a lymphad with the sail furled and oars over the side, flying a death’s-head flag: the arms of House Skellhaven. Conqueror's Moon
Kristen could hear their conversation distantly but couldn't make out what they were saying.
Connor could make out the distinctive hull markings that showed that this was no ordinary vehicle.
As he proprietorially slaps her buttocks he is saying words she can't make out.
Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
The fact that he could see the sunspots with the naked eye and that he could make out the umbrae and penumbrae of the spots suggest that they must have been extremely large.
It was so dark he could barely make out the tree line on the distant shore.
He squinted and brought his face forward, straining his neck, trying to make out the dim form that was only a foot from him.
I could make out a dark figure in the twilight.
I could just make out the faint outline of the cliffs.
Distantly, to her right, she could make out the city of Shanghai.
As the Rolls approached, I could make out a good-looking, light-haired man driving. Family Storms
I could make out the shapes of our Afghan allies, all lying prone and firing their weapons at some unseen target. Times, Sunday Times
I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
This means sex workers can only legally make outcalls to ad hoc places, leaving them vulnerable; even using the same hotel frequently can be illegal.
I could just make out the faint outline of the cliffs.
He could just make out tropical birds flitting from tree to tree their faint caws echoing up from the valley.
I could even make out the different indigo and violet stripes, which is rare.
My name is not that strange, but if the intonation is Swedish most people just can not make out the syllables. Isaac Asimov, rider
The pilot could just make out the runway landing lights.
A man and woman sped through the intersection on a tandem bicycle, singing a song I couldn't make out, in a strong waltzing beat.
However, it looks more like a splodge than a fingerprint and you can't make out any of the traditional markings that show it's actually a finger.
It is hard to make out what criteria are used.
The retired factory supervisor can now make out shapes with his eyes closed. The Sun
How the movement fits into the piece as such, I cannot make out, but it's such a beaut that I won't ask questions.
When he squinted his eyes, he could just make out a house in the distance.
Maybe part of the reason that emergency room visits for the uninsured in Massachusetts have not diminished as planned, and that primary care doctors are not sufficiently available, is due to the fact that physicians in Massachusetts are facing a diseconomy in which insurance CEOs make out as millionaires while patients and physicians struggle to give and receive care. Emergency Rooms Are Mostly Doing What They Should
However, customers will still only be able to receive incoming calls and make outgoing emergency calls.
Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
All we could make out for certain was, that she had, within a year past, seen two _Kabloona oomiak_ (whether ships or boats was still doubtful [*]), and that her husband was now far away. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
He could make out a dust storm as a deeper-brown blot on the fulvous crescent. Inconstant Star

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