Get Free Checker

How To Use Make way In A Sentence

  • They expect him to step aside and make way for an old man.
  • Two editions were broadcast on BBC2 to make way for BBC1's coverage of Wimbledon tennis.
  • The crowd stepped aside to make way for the procession.
  • The spin on the spin: Helped by an MLB lead-in, as Fox moved the final innings of Yankees-Red Sox to its FX cable channel to make way for the race. Selected weekend TV ratings and news
  • If you have evergreens, perhaps the plants are just shedding older leaves to make way for new.
Master English with Ease
Translate words instantly and build your vocabulary every day.
Boost Your
Learning
Master English with Ease
  • That means fringe players could all be off-loaded in order to make way for a clutch of new faces.
  • The gorillas' natural habitat has been gradually destroyed to make way for farmland and cash crops for sale on the global market.
  • The churches recently vacated the land to make way for the proposed developments.
  • The animal is under threat of extinction in the wild as its forest habitat is destroyed to make way for agricultural land. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not beautiful; too many fine buildings have been demolished to make way for ring roads and shopping centres. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to the ancient wisdom, spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self.
  • He apologised for keeping me waiting (although it was our photographer who had delayed him) and swiftly swept away his papers to make way for me.
  • Tropical forests are also destroyed to make way for the hydro-electric plants to smelt bauxite - used in aluminum cans.
  • More than 500 villages were flattened to make way for the mines. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything old has to go to make way for new stock and many more books, for adults and children have been added to the sale at giveaway prices.
  • But even ‘evergreen’ yaupons drop old leaves to make way for new.
  • The lido forms a pivotal part of the Time and Tide Project to breathe new life into the town's promenade and, under proposals that went out to public consultation, could be demolished to make way for a toilet and caf complex.
  • Bulldozing old-growth trees will make way for money-making species such as eucalyptus, teak and bamboo.
  • A team of four heavily built labourers had been contracted to demolish the old building to make way for a new office block.
  • Now the council flat he was given in compensation is also to be bulldozed, to make way for a new national stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • His lips peel back to make way for a giggle, a ratty staccato, something up from a drain.
  • But less than a decade after the agreement was reached, the new meadow is being concreted over to make way for yet more cars.
  • It intends to clear some of its overflowing stockpiles and make way for freshly harvested grain, while also settling part of its oil imports bill. Times, Sunday Times
  • The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.
  • I shall never forget riding through the crowded bazaars, my interpreter, or laquais-de-place, ahead of me to clear the way — when he took his whip, and struck it over the shoulders of a man who could not or would not make way! Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  • Temples, ancient settlements and old and historical buildings have been bulldozed to make way for various development projects.
  • Landscape gardeners have begun a clearance of the overgrown ground to make way for a new park.
  • Forest is being cleared to make way for new farming land.
  • The giant maize maze has been harvested to make way for activities that will include fairground rides, a scary pantomime and a haunted house. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cherry orchard is being chopped down by the end of the play, to make way for holiday homes and new money. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bmrtl estimates 800 building demolitions to make way for the Metro.
  • Peter congratulated him before asking which unfortunate soul had been dropped to make way for his young brother.
  • Viewers are fed up with their favourite sitcoms being shunted to later times to make way for live football coverage.
  • Meanwhile our heating bill went up almost $150 and we get zip because, apparently, we make way too much money (note the sarcasm).
  • It was being pulled down to make way for a larger, more commodious building.
  • They expect him to step aside and make way for an old man.
  • IT'S time gentlemen please, to make way for the ladies. The Sun
  • There are also 1000's of pond life killed instantly when their pond is filled in to make way for a new road or building because its "uneconomical" to go round the pond or build a bridge over it. Purpleocity.net
  • I sacrifice the old to make way for the new and in doing so, I gain spiritual wisdom.
  • Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.
  • Sir William Trumball [sic] whom Macaulay (chap. xxi) characterizes as “a learned civilian and an experienced diplomatist, of moderate opinions and of temper cautious to timidity” was appointed Secretary of State in 1691 and resigned in 1697 to make way for a more zealous partisan. A Pleasing Form; a firm, yet cautious Mind
  • Fans originally feared the properties would be bulldozed to make way for new builds. The Sun
  • Like the rest of the Highlands and Islands, Skye suffered during the mid-19th century from the Clearances, when unscrupulous lairds forced crofters out of their homes and off the land to make way for sheep.
  • The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.
  • The firm is currently losing money because it is having to operate the old trains, which should have been decommissioned to make way for the Junipers, and pay for buses for passengers when services are cancelled.
  • In 1985, residents banded together to fight for downzoning after a Craftsman bungalow was torn down to make way for an apartment building.
  • Make way for the Lord Mayor!
  • The original buildings were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and were replaced with a 2,200-room, 42-storey art-deco monolith.
  • It goes without saying that songwriting and performing ability are often pushed aside to make way for a track that's overexposed.
  • In the end I was yanked off to make way for some other deluded driver fresh from the racetrack. The Sun
  • As thirties make way for forties, so do boho and chaotic layers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Destroying tooling is a BAD HABIT that NASA has had since the Saturn V tooling was destroyed to make way for the Shuttle! Shuttle Shutdown Coming - NASA Watch
  • Their forest is being burned to the ground and ripped out to make way for palm oil plantations. The Sun
  • In the end I was yanked off to make way for some other deluded driver fresh from the racetrack. The Sun
  • According to the historian, cattle maiming fell into the category of ‘an historical outrage’ because the peasantry had for centuries regarded cattle as their enemy owing to clearances designed to make way for pasturage.
  • The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.
  • No heavy-handed security asking the crowd to push back, make way - everything was handled with awesome expertise and finesse.
  • Now the council flat he was given in compensation is also to be bulldozed, to make way for a new national stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • Landscape gardeners have begun a clearance of the overgrown ground to make way for a new park.
  • Despite efforts to save the nightclub, it was reduced to rubble earlier this year to make way for retirement flats and shops.
  • I felt like a defeated general after a battle as they parted to make way for me; I had to walk through their group, looking straight ahead, with every one of them staring at me.
  • City Police showed up Monday afternoon at the cemetery to find a hired worker peeling some of the worn shingles from the caretaker's house roof to make way for some long-needed repairs to the old, vacant and decaying property. Archive 2005-11-01
  • Zibi, who otherwise had a woeful game and had to make way for Shaun Haschick eight minutes from time, pounced on a John Maduka miskick to rifle home the winner in the 66th minute.
  • The idea that anyone was going to 'force these people from their homes at gunpoint' (in order to make way for a bunch of 'Germans') is more demagogical nonsense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • And the century-old Rodbourne Methodist Church is also unlisted and is currently facing demolition to make way for a car park.
  • Fans originally feared the properties would be bulldozed to make way for new builds. The Sun
  • It lay on the other side of the pontlevis -- the fosse between us -- and was of angular shape, surmounted by a statue of Charles V. of France, and, as De Lorgnac said, was already doomed to destruction to make way for the improvements contemplated by the King. Orrain A Romance
  • Scores of business premises will be bulldozed to make way for the final section of the northern spur of Sheffield's inner ring road.
  • Aromas of orange peel and cocoa make way for a smooth-edged and well-aged rum, more tannic than sweet, and less vanilla than is common.
  • [Footnote: The inner ward, or ballium, which (according to Quinault) was defended by ten towers, connected by an embattled stone wall about thirty feet in height and eight feet thick, on the summit of which was a footway; now demolished to make way for the famous gardens.] Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
  • Here older homes are being razed to make way for new houses. Times, Sunday Times
  • More of this and the ice cream will make way for sponge pudding and treacle and my autumn diet will be fully established.
  • A lot of the old tower blocks have been torn down to make way for new housing.
  • More than 180 crofters, some living thousands of miles from their crofts, were forced to give up their land last year to make way for new tenants.
  • But government attacks forced many more thousands out as land was cleared of people to make way for oilfields.
  • Widespread deforestation to make way for ski slopes has eroded topsoil, increasing the incidence of avalanches.
  • In the drier lands to the east, the clearance of the forest to make way for cattle had caused catastrophic soil erosion. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • make way for
  • So it was that NBC execs informed Leno that, no matter how great a job he was doing, they were putting him out to pasture in five years to make way for Coco and his dewier demographic. The New Republic - All Feed
  • As an unlisted building, there is nothing to stop the old school from being demolished to make way for, no doubt, dozens of new apartments and houses to cater for the masses wanting to live as close as possible to Leeds.
  • Many trees have been felled to make way for the busway lanes and stations.
  • Traditional lessons were squeezed off the timetable at a secondary school to make way for classes in coping with bullying.
  • As the plans stand, the historic burgages will be bulldozed to make way for the cinema and a restaurant.
  • Forest is being cleared to make way for new farming land.
  • Landscape gardeners have begun a clearance of the overgrown ground to make way for a new park.
  • They cleared some of the natural broadleaf woodland to make way for sheep pastures; they also coppiced or managed other parts of the woodland for timber and firewood.
  • Local authority-owned facilities in the area, known as Hawthorn, could be bulldozed to make way for new buildings, possibly houses.
  • The end is nigh for the Savoy in Broad Green as the bulldozers prepare to demolish the 1930s cinema to make way for a new housing development.
  • More than 500 villages were flattened to make way for the mines. Times, Sunday Times
  • We shifted out of that house a few years ago and then the building was demolished to make way for a new residential building.
  • ITV denied this was the case, claiming that the run had been interrupted to make way for some live events (this was partly true) - and indeed the show did return after three months, but with only two of the four unscreened episodes.
  • Parents are set to be given their say on ambitious plans which could see a York school sold to make way for a new one.
  • Ma is at odds with the Hong Kong government, which wants to move her six-storey tall date palm tree to make way for a public road project.
  • Here older homes are being razed to make way for new houses. Times, Sunday Times
  • make way for the President's motorcade
  • The off-price clothing and home accessories store will move within the shopping center to make way for a superstore to expand its discount store.
  • The rainforest is being cleared legally and illegally for timber, for pulp wood to make paper, and to make way for oil palm plantations.
  • But through it all, the only Apples we've had to sell are the glinty, erotic packages out of Cupertino, which we peddle on eBay's secondary market to make way for the next wonderment. Adam Hanft: Reincarnation Alert! The Depression Generation Is Returning! Meet the Upside-Down Generation
  • But removing a fare-paying passenger to make way for an air miles traveller costs carriers dearly.
  • The youngster who does not scramble from a chair to make way for an adult will draw a sharp reproof.
  • The rink closes for the last time on Sunday, to make way for a housing development.
  • The ruling committee resigned en bloc to make way for a new election.
  • They cleared some of the natural broadleaf woodland to make way for sheep pastures; they also coppiced or managed other parts of the woodland for timber and firewood.
  • Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.
  • In the drier lands to the east, the clearance of the forest to make way for cattle had caused catastrophic soil erosion. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • Telex and facsimile could make way for latest high-tech global communications network.
  • With political, social, and religious turmoil raging only miles away, he created in his poetry a lively and animated world in which he sings of may-poles yielding to hock-carts that, in turn, make way for wassails and wakes.
  • In Istanbul, too, there was the problem of privately owned areas that had to be expropriated to make way for the new docks and quays.
  • Or it might have happened later, when the creek was culverted and the woods cut down to make way for subdivisions and shopping malls.
  • Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.
  • According to our peers in the fashion world, thongs and push-up bras have been sidelined to make way for the fuller brief and bra combination.
  • Already entire streets of flats have been levelled to make way for more than 700 new homes, two new schools and a state-of-the-art health centre.
  • The gigantic bargain book sale continues in Castledermot Library, to make way for the stock of new books.
  • The descendants of settlers from Kwangchow have been waiting a dozen years for the compensation they were promised after they were forced to vacate their family homes along Jalan Raja Uda in Butterworth to make way for a major property development project. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • Many curious glances were cast at me as we passed through the crowd of idlers and "dandies" who lounged about the open space before the temple, but no word was spoken as they drew back to make way for us. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography
  • Breaking up the concrete driveway came next to make way for lawns, borders and a pond.
  • However, the programme was cancelled to make way for the arrival of a new 'everyday story of countryfolk'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fans originally feared the properties would be bulldozed to make way for new builds. The Sun
  • The building was knocked down to make way for a block of flats .
  • At the end of last summer he called for fewer Tests to make way for more one-day games to give the players decent breaks.
  • Or are all those people in County Limerick to lose their homes and farms just to make way for a second-rate road?
  • Some hospitals have also cancelled operations to make way for the most seriously ill flu patients. Times, Sunday Times
  • They have razed those buildings to make way for the new highway.
  • Now the council flat he was given in compensation is also to be bulldozed, to make way for a new national stadium. Times, Sunday Times
  • But this is the year in which the promise of reform has to make way for actual delivery. Times, Sunday Times
  • More than 500 houses will be demolished to make way for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • The latest flashpoint for Mr Taylor came when a ‘mindless’ passenger smashed his fist through a window because passengers would not make way for his queue-jumping pals.
  • Make way heathens, and bow to your celestial overlords!
  • He points to the countryside that has been dug up, blasted, landscaped to make way for some of the most beautiful resorts on the earth.
  • Sarah White, 24, is furious that Essex County Council is felling trees to make way for a bus lane as part of the new park-and-ride development at Sandon, near Chelmsford.
  • More than 500 houses will be demolished to make way for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • It intends to clear some of its overflowing stockpiles and make way for freshly harvested grain, while also settling part of its oil imports bill. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trees will make way for the enlargement of the community recreation ground and are to be replaced with a mixture of different varieties elsewhere within the park.
  • As part of the multi-million-pound road improvement, southbound traffic would flow onto a new link road at the north-east corner of the junction where empty shops owned by the Council would have to be demolished to make way.
  • In 1911, the York Corporation agreed to widen Goodramgate to make way for the electric tramway.
  • There are fears the 92-year-old building could be knocked down to make way for a housing scheme.
  • The animal is under threat of extinction in the wild as its forest habitat is destroyed to make way for agricultural land. Times, Sunday Times
  • The local theatre and lido is about to be bulldozed to make way for flats. No Blacks Allowed.....(?)
  • The navy already has four such vessels, which are likely to be brought out of service early to make way for the new variants. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amey, which is carrying out the work, told Barrow Traders 'Association that it will be suspending the work in the Cavendish Street section of the development to make way for Barrow Evening Mail news round-up
  • Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day! Bob Marley 
  • Clean out the greenhouse and make way for incoming pelargoniums, chrysanthemums and dahlias that will need protection from the frost.
  • And I'll thank you land grubbers to get out of this here line and make way for folks who got a real need to cross first.
  • To create the new classroom outhouses next to the school's existing four labs were demolished to make way for a single story extension.
  • It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent.
  • Sometimes the old order is beyond reform and simply has to go in order to make way for the new.
  • Some hospitals have also cancelled operations to make way for the most seriously ill flu patients. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Sands casino in Atlantic City closed in November to make way for a new mega - casino.
  • The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.
  • Tropical forest is felled to make way for grassland.
  • Although I don't remember the food I do remember the cafe being knocked down to make way for the concrete monstrosity that is the council offices.
  • Like many towns, we tore up the streetcar tracks in the 1950s to make way for automobiles and parking spaces.
  • The moorland nests of skylarks, curlews, lapwings and twite are being bulldozed to make way for concrete pits. Times, Sunday Times
  • A team of four heavily built labourers had been contracted to demolish the old building to make way for a new office block.
  • If you have evergreens, perhaps the plants are just shedding older leaves to make way for new.
  • It then abruptly left him, to make way, apparently metastatically, for enteralgia coupled with diarrhœa. The Electric Bath
  • The land was compulsorily purchased from the owner to make way for the new road.
  • They expect him to step aside and make way for an old man.
  • Across the country, the rural areas the Amish inhabit are rapidly becoming exurbs, and what was once farmland is being sold to make way for subdivisions and Wal-Marts -- making raw land, even when it is available, prohibitively expensive. Boing Boing
  • Tropical forests are also destroyed to make way for the hydro-electric plants to smelt bauxite - used in aluminum cans.
  • However, the programme was cancelled to make way for the arrival of a new 'everyday story of countryfolk'. Times, Sunday Times
  • A lot of the old tower blocks have been torn down to make way for new housing.
  • This is a place, after all, where the watchword is innovation, where great value is put on novelty and trendiness, and where older buildings are routinely razed to make way for bigger (though not necessarily better) ones.
  • She would like to continue her gymnastic career even after Tokyo, but sooner or later she must think of stepping down to make way for the younger set.
  • Graves in a disused Highworth burial ground could be moved to make way for a sheltered housing project.
  • The plan aims to clear squatters from government-owned land to make way for infrastructure and commercial development.
  • And most any shnook knows at least a little. it's Yiddish and, according to an article, "Lawsuit, Shmawsuit," in the December issue of the august Yale Law Journal, lawyers 'bookshelves ought to make way for Leo Rosten. Shnook & Shnook
  • Jan Maher, librarian, would like you to know that she is having a gigantic bargain book sale, to make way for her very large stock of new books.
  • Here, on the contrary, your volunteers "do their spiriting gently:" all is good-nature and good manners; and a front is diminished, or a column of companies in line of march is eased off to the right or left to make way for carts or coaches, as the case requires, with a promptness which is the more creditable from the fact that the execution of a change in movement is no light matter. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • Stores and offices are already quitting the area where widescale demolition is due to take place to make way for the planned shopping scheme.
  • The compensation related to controversial conversions of mining rights which have basically thrown local small-scale and artesanal miners out of their previous mine workings to make way for industrial-scale transnational corporations which are themselves in a state of paralysis while the central government dilly-dallies on final clearances to begin mining operations. Southern gold miners occupation of Mibam offices precipitates Thursday meeting with Minister Rodolfo Sanz
  • Their repulse was a bitter humiliation to the _parvenue_ Empress, whose resentment took the form (along with many other curious results) of opening the present Boulevard St. Germain, its line being intentionally carried through the heart of that quarter, teeming with historic "Hotels" of the old aristocracy, where beautiful constructions were mercilessly torn down to make way for the new avenue. Worldly Ways and Byways
  • In some cases, workers were evicted from their homes to make way for new property development.
  • As part of the multi-million-pound road improvement, southbound traffic would flow onto a new link road at the north-east corner of the junction where empty shops owned by the Council would have to be demolished to make way.
  • The fate of daughters is to leave and make way for incoming daughters-in-law.
  • But after six years of living in what they call a rural haven, they saw a bulldozer begin tearing down nearby forests to make way for new homes. You Are How You Live
  • Then, with a final dismissive splosh, he steps back, still grimly unsmiling, to make way for a second character, the munashfi. Why Syria scrubs up so well
  • The ledge is long gone, having been dynamited in the nineteenth century to make way for a railroad.
  • In 1937, cottages expropriated to make way for the airport were floated across to Algonquin Island, and after WWII, the remainder of Algonquin was parcelled out to vets and their families to deal with a housing shortage.
  • The ground floor of the Regency hunting lodge is cleared of its existing furniture to make way for some strange and interesting pieces.
  • Not only are their food plants uprooted and poisoned to make way for crops and homes; the caterpillars are also victims of insecticides intended for crop-eating caterpillars.
  • Villagers say thousands were forcefully evicted to make way for a low-sulphur crude oil venture in south-central Sudan. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Several houses were pulled down to make way for the new road.
  • In the drier lands to the east, the clearance of the forest to make way for cattle had caused catastrophic soil erosion. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • * A woman in Cardiff is outraged after her car was towed from a disabled parking bay to make way for the Prince of Wales*A civil claim has been lodged against South Wales Police*MP calls for 'normal lives' for those living in city centre Disabled woman's outrage after car towed to make way for Prince of Wales
  • It intends to clear some of its overflowing stockpiles and make way for freshly harvested grain, while also settling part of its oil imports bill. Times, Sunday Times
  • Giant disused workshops and factory buildings would be flattened to make way for new homes and business properties.
  • A disabled woman in Cardiff has expressed outrage after her car was towed from a disabled parking bay to make way for the Royal visit. Disabled woman's outrage after car towed to make way for Prince of Wales

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):