make over

VERB
  1. make new
    She is remaking her image
  2. use again in altered form
    retread an old plot
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How To Use make over In A Sentence

  • It suggested she might like to make overpayments on her mortgage or put more money into the offset savings account with which it is linked. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact the Academy did, in 1890, enter into an agreement to "give, grant, assign, transfer, convey, and make over" to the State its collection of antiquities; but the agreement also specified that the "charge and custody of the said collection… shall remain with the said Royal Irish Academy, subject to such regulations and directions as may from time to time be prescribed by the [State] … but so as to leave the Royal Academy as unfettered in the charge and management of the Museum [collection] as circumstances will allow. 'Treasures of Early Irish Art': An Exchange
  • Many other factors conspired to make overeating acceptable and increase people's waistlines.
  • They are going to have to fork out national insurance contributions at 13.8 per cent of any redundancy payments they make over 30,000. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most flexible mortgage lenders allow you to make overpayments by up to 10% each year.
  • TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, erect decking, build pergolas, plumb in water features, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
  • The nawab was not the only courtier to make overtures. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
  • Make the martini their way and you'll get a bigger tip; to amass the greatest wealth in gratuities, you must learn to make over 100 drinks.
  • It is a pity that you have not a Schanz pianoforte, which is much more favourable to expression; my idea is that you should make over your own still very tolerable piano to Fraulein Peperl, and get a new one for yourself. Joseph Haydn
  • You could also make overpayments to reduce the size of your loan. Times, Sunday Times
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