How To Use Making In A Sentence

I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
If you lip balm contains phenol, camphor, menthol, peppermint oil or eucalyptus, it's most likely making your lips more chapped than not.
But Sexton found Nicks for an easy 31-yard score on fourth down with 4: 11 left to seal it, and Nicks set the receiving record with a 22-yard catch a little later from T.J. Yates, making his first appearance in relief from a broken ankle suffered in September against Virginia Tech. Newspaper Home Delivery - Subscribe Today USATODAY.com
Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
But in a world where grooming students for a career and making the arts responsive to business are key government priorities, a little artistic vision goes a long way.

I found it a bit of a strain making conversation with her.
We came here with a few players making their debuts and they have done great. The Sun
He comes from nowhere to win this contest and immediately is able to grasp a lot of the intricacies of the moviemaking process.
The software is also a great customization solution for those who would like to alter the look and feel of the Finder, Dock and login window, making it easy to prebind and re-prebind their entire system or selected folders, run cron scripts, change startup mode and language, force empty trash, update "whatis," locate databases, and so on. Softpedia News - Global
Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
I said a few colorful words in our language, making him laugh.
Would you stop making jokes at my expense?
In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic. Language Log
Interior spaces may also be gendered: the author explores both the activities particular to women, such as needlework or lace-making, and the objects related to female and maternal domesticity.
It was part of Rolls-Royce, one of the world's largest manufacturers of jet engines, which grew out of the original car-making company founded by Henry Rolls.
As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
They were making plans to move north, to protect their border from the Kariens. TREASON KEEP
Genetic factors, scientists believe, account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
I don't think you're playing devil's advocate (a word every/filmer seems to want use) simply by making entirely senseless comparisons between films like Transformers and There Will Be Blood, and ranting on with points of view that even someone in defense of Transformers would never use. Things I Noticed While Watching 20 Minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film
This seems like an unnecessary attention-seeking tactic, making sure we notice a particularly sleazy line.
This cooperative family decision-making has much to recommend it.
It joins a host of other multinational businesses making similar pledges. Times, Sunday Times
Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose.
Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
Then the first of three banderilleros (usually older bullfighters who form part of the matador's team) individually run towards the bull making him charge.
His love-making is passionate and impulsive, joyous almost to rowdyism. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
He travelled widely in pursuit of his ornithological passion, making many new discoveries. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
Which means making sure I'm near the front of the line on opening day and a systematic approach to acquisition.
It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
It was an old-fashioned mill for grinding linseed, expressing the oil, and making oil-cake.
Making all pupils feel they are valued and have a contribution to make to the school community is vital in helping children become responsible adults.
Although nationally distributed boxes do not change fronts often, the regional ones do, making them a prime target for collectors.
At about the time Hanson began making his realistic figures in the 1960s, other artists were also making life-sized figures molded from actual people.
Sémillon (also Muscadelle and Sauvignon Blanc) is the best grape for making botrytis-affected sweet wines.
Thank you for making learning not a dull thing but a great joy.
The main problem with making films is keeping continuity.
New antioxidants include ferulic acid, idebenone, ubiquinone coenzyme Q10, alpha lipoic acid, and resveratrol and are already making their way into our friendly neighborhood counters. You Being Beautiful
Within four years he managed to dislodge the shah then in place Ahmad Shah Qajar and coronate himself, making his 5-year-old son crown prince. A Monarch Dethroned
But this is all about making content safe, when delivered as a stream or as a file, over the internet.
He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
Making a completely clean break with the past, the couple got rid of all their old furniture.
She added that the annual Halloween celebrations will see bonfires on the area, only making things worse than they already are.
Talking about the investment in the new main stand, the increased capacity, and the scope for making money rather than just haemorrhaging it, he insisted his family are in it for the long haul.
He gave the address of his hotel, making sure that Johnny, talking to another salesgirl a foot or two away, would have heard it. DISPLACED PERSON
No major American artists in the twenties were making totally abstract, non-objective paintings.
Zack and I spent last evening making modelling clay figures at the kitchen table.
The actress is asking the court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery.
The light was fading and the sky had rings of black, purple and navy making their way up to the small point of light in the center part of the sky.
We also believe that practically any country that degrades women or any country that cuts them off from the vital life of the country is making a very big mistake.
He stacked the books on pedestals, making three mysterious columns on one side of the shadowy gallery, two on the other.
A man rushed past and jogged her elbow, making her drop the bag.
It also stokes the emotions, making physical violence more likely.
Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
My birthday wishes to you are the warmest.May all the plans you are making work out just right for you and may life always bring the best things your way.
Of course, daylight savings time will never go away, because modern environmentalism has become more a matter of making empty feel-good gestures than performing rational acts that actually improve something. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It Seems I Was Right About Daylight Savings Time
This is Europe's problem too," went the refrain, after more than 1,400 immigrant had arrived in Tenerife and Gran Canaria in the previous week, making 2,000 landing in the month, mostly from Senegal and Mali. The pace quickens
They were following the cortege to the cemetery, and her dad was making jokes. IN REAL LIFE
The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
The purpose of evaluation is to collect and analyse information that can be used for rational decision making.
And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
Aryan shrieks and runs out of my room, making such noise that her footfalls sound like an army trooping onto the battlefield.
Any instrument of knowledge proving the non-existence of consciousness, could do so only by making consciousness its object -- 'this is consciousness'; but consciousness, as being self-established, does not admit of that objectivation which is implied in the word 'this,' and hence its previous non-existence cannot be proved by anything lying outside itself. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
The Governing Body, in its wisdom, devolved decision making for the trophy's route to its constituent bodies, the counties.
The manager of a dressmaking factory noted with amazement that her employees all took Sunday for a gala day and not as a day of rest. A Renegade History of the United States
It is not just about productivity, but predictability, speeding things up, making things flow smoothly.
Information is also readily available to aid senior management in decision making.
But one of the biggest gems for Nordic skiing is the plan for snowmaking capabilities.
After making the sauce, I thought both potatoes and chickpeas sounded good, so on a whim I made a potato with panch phoron side dish -- but next time I would do 2 things differently. Archive 2009-04-01
Thus far, there have been eight, and two will be making their racecourse debuts this summer. Times, Sunday Times
Neither does it give them excuse for committing imprisonable crimes or for not making efforts to work to support themselves. Times, Sunday Times
But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
I've had an insanely busy day here, and I was listening to the latest album but it was just making me kind of listless and spacy.
She is a woman of integrity who has never abandoned her principles for the sake of making money.
In issuing the order, the President has pushed his lawmaking powers beyond their limits.
They're not going to be making much at the lower end of the scale. Times, Sunday Times
For two days it had been snowing, great flakes so plume-like that they seemed almost artificial, making one think of the blizzards which originate high in theatre-flies under the sovereignty of a stage-hand who sweats at his task of controlling the elements. Then I'll Come Back to You
One particularly nice feature is the true print previewer that lets you proof and edit a map before making the final print.
Manufactories are now making more and more civilian GPS receivers.
This capricious beast had been trained to caracole, and his owner had taken to impressing girls by making the beast execute this pretty trick whenever he saw one. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Note: Fees for the standard exhibition booth include those for exhibition space, 2.5-meters-high wainscot, making of lintel, negotiation table, two chairs, 220V mains socket and two spotlights .
Imagine you are making jam and have gotten to the point where you pour the steaming liquor of fruit, sugar, and pectin into the jars.
Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making.
In the 1970's the two-way radio made a big difference in making up trains and the brakeman were no longer giving signals with lanterns and lighted fuzees.
Instead of buying pre-packed munchies, involve the kids in making their snacks from scratch. The Sun
White says no one could fail to understand the strategy, but is at pains to point out that making more money does not mean losing more jobs - quite the opposite.
One example is bookmaking - punters can now both back and lay horses over the web.
Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity.
It was nice listening to the two kids laughing their heads off as they played "moviemaking" on Sunday. Shlemazl
In 1975, after losing 3 "weathermen" terrrorists in a bomb-making accident and being that they are now on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List, Ayers & Dohrn "go underground". Latest Articles
Give responsibility for minor decision making to the elder councils.
The researchers needed to show whether the larger portions had been making people fatter, he said. Times, Sunday Times
Carol is part of the London Laughter Club, a group which has the sole aim of making each other laugh.
She shamed him into making amends
I'm still labelled a hypochondriac, a lier, someone who's making things up. BlogHer - Comments
This "indistinguishability" seems to me to be precisely the point that aiguy has been making in this thread (and doing an outstanding job of it, BTW). Aiguy's Computer
He prefers to purge children of demons by making them take laxatives and emetics.
Geoengineering, its proponents would say, is about keeping the planet earthlike, and critics would say, is about making it non-earthlike. The Volokh Conspiracy » Time to Look at Geoengineering?
So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
As the train stopped for its human freight at each station it slowly gathered a cargo of trammies and bussies making for their depots.
I say this because in the mid distance is the Swinden Limestone Quarry, and they are removing one hill, and making another with the quarry tailings, and successfully grassing over the spoil and planting trees.
It's probably been twenty years or more since I read L' Engle's ‘Time trilogy’ about the Murry family, and in that time L' Engle has written another book in the series, making it a tetralogy.
The setting is conducive to cuddling up in the soft cushions and really making yourself at home.
I commend it also for nearly making it work. Times, Sunday Times
She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done.
With the moon cozying up to Venus in a special way this week, you could be thinking about making a big move too.
They wed five months after his third wife died from cancer and he credits her with making life seem worthwhile again. The Sun
Its images tumble, proliferate and cross-hatch; they are extravagant and loopy and defiantly enormous in their ambition, making everything else look petty and piddling.
Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
In my business the less you worry about making money the more likely you are to make it.
Together with other Brassica species, it likely descends from a hexaploid ancestor followed by extensive rearrangements, making its genome essentially a triplicated A. thaliana genome.
She works in nearly 10 homes, making chapatis and doing all other household chores.
You win less or lose more than you would by playing solo 8 and making the same number of tricks.
We like having fun and making things to eat. The Sun
After completing his school education, he studied audio-visual communications and filmmaking for three years.
The patient is instructed not to move his eyes to look directly at the phosphene patterns that are generated during mapping, as eye movement will skew the results, making it necessary to repeat the stimulation sequence. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
It is arguably too tight now, making the car seem unsettled on small bumps and unpleasant on larger ones. Times, Sunday Times
In this sense, he saw scientific psychology as anti-life: the more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more myth we are capable of making conscious, the more life we integrate.
Orozco-Estrada may have been too indulgent of her slow adagio, but her clear vision of the final rondo again underlined a real artist in the making. Vienna Tonkünstler/Andrés Orozco-Estrada – review
This image is on the purchased ticket, making transfer all but impossible. Times, Sunday Times
Making money came naturally to him.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer. Times, Sunday Times
These stylish male celebs are making it cool for men to care about what they wear. The Sun
As a devotional photographer a very tough man in terms of the handicraft of photo making.
have a mathematical chance of making the playoffs
That's when his father took over what was then a restaurant and converted it into a grocery store; as of the making of the film, Toupin fils had lived in that same building (in an apartment upstairs) for all of his 52 years.
If you are dedicated to making sure women's views and perspectives get into print and keeping media in the hands of women, this is the place for you.
Making items such as favours and flowers will help to ensure your wedding has the personal touch. The Sun
The remainder came from other disciplines, with general surgery making up 26%.
Perhaps the biggest problem on top was making signals to the engineers in the yard below to prevent overwinding of the hoisting engines. The Great Bridge
Equally, it must promote collegial decision-making in its organisational structure, based on broad consultation with and involvement of different social constituencies.
The hi-tech visions appear as fully executed architectonic meditations, linking architecture with landscape and making ground-breaking technology an important component of the program. Grand Illusions on the Hudson
He states, that Mr. Hastings received for the appointment of Munny Begum to the rajahship two lacs of rupees, or about 22,000_l. _, and that he received in another gross sum one lac and a half of rupees: in all making three lac and a half, or about 36,000_l. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was years in the making.
Retinyl palmitate requires enzymatic conversion of retinol to retinoic acid, making the availability limited.
Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize _one_ individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The first step was to mask off an area around the metal cut-out, making sure that the spacing was even all the way around.
His grin expiated his looks, making anyone in range of his searchlight smile feel that they were interesting to know. A Small Death in the Great Glen
Most data sets utilized in the study of hereditary diseases are constructed around probands, making correction for ascertainment bias necessary; this set of data is no exception.
Those elements are inherent in Hispanic culture, making people such as Thomas feel at home.
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
Nevertheless, I was determined to be at least vaguely scientific about this review, so I pulled out the omnidirectional microphone I had borrowed from the media unit at work and started making recordings.
An insect's body covering, the cuticle, contains fat layers making the cuticle nearly waterproof and preventing water loss.
If that's not going to be the case, with the super-structure of the EU so wieldy and its policy-making machinery a barrier to future economic efficiency, then its leaders and citizens have a problem. Europe is Acting as Though it Wants to be Left Behind
Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
And the only real way of pulling it off is by making it a comedy and basically making the audience cack themselves constantly for an hour and a half.
Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
They get much of their food by chasing gulls and making them drop what they have in their beak, and one might see them doing this. Times, Sunday Times
There is a growing perception that the decision-making is remote, opaque, and even undemocratic.
If you visit the lowest terrace (called Canada) you may be interested to see an area of the extremely rare asarabacca plant, used in the making of snuff.
The simplest explanation is that such people are "gluttons"; and the most romantic explanation is that there is some psychiatric reason making it necessary for them to overeat. The Human Brain
It may act as such, by suppressing ovulation, but it also works by making the lining of the womb hostile to the newly conceived embryo.
Milk churns and dairymaids are making a comeback on a Sheffield housing estate where South Yorkshire's first urban dairy will start producing cheese commercially next month.
Jack's hobby was model making and he was currently engaged in a vast and ambitious project.
But there are interviews and a short making of featurette as well as previews of several titles in what is proving to be a great line of DVD's.
They were making the most tremendous amount of noise last night.
These warranties would include general warranties as to: Compliance in making tax returns.
The substantive points I was making above all remain valid either way. Matthew Yglesias » People Hate Congress, Like Obama
When making bread with the fermented dough, the dough must be removed from the fridge at least 2 hours in advance, to allow it to prove.
They circled each other like two mad dogs, neither making a move.
A "bellman" is the English equivalent of a town crier; his task was to move about the town, ringing a bell and making public announcements. The Bellman's Song (The Moon Shone Bright)
The stunning "aerodynamic" shapes that come to dominate so many of these cars have little to do with making them work better. 'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik
Along with this, the arena's main concourse is narrow and crammed with useless kiosks selling everything from caramel apples to nachos to kettle corn, making the walk to the one smoking area something of a slow death march for the nicotine needy. From the Floor: A Happy Slab of Sandwich Meat
It would also help to counsel families on making informed decisions about their educational choices.
On many dossiers, the pace of law-making could easily advance "very fast", says the ambassador.
For observe: this love of what is called ideality or beauty in preference to truth, operates not only in making us choose the past rather than the present for our subjects, but it makes us falsify the present when we do take it for our subject. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action.
Caterers, designers, arrangers, were parading in and out of the house weekly, making their presentations and answering questions. Olivia
The government says it is opposed to paying ransom, but cannot prevent families of victims from making their own arrangements.
Mr. Zhang's motto is:"making lawyers' coronet of honor with thorns".
Scientists say its surface was non-reflective, making it hard to spot. The Sun
Making music: A percussion and music workshop for children takes place at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall tomorrow at 11.15am.
The car industry in the rustbelt is miserable. Factories making thirsty pickup trucks are cutting back or closing.
But para 3 of the article imposes religious restrictions making the provision applicable only to those who profess Hindu religion.
He had circled around to come to the village by the south, on the pretence of making it appear that he was headed for Kaye.
Having a more positive approach to making choices builds your confidence - and dejunks your clutter.
They didn't do much apart from eating daddy long legs and making bunchy webs which hang from the ceiling.
He was brutally punished for his role in making an illicit radio receiver. Times, Sunday Times
Its average elevation is 13,000 feet, making the air rather thin and cold, and ten peaks top 20,000 feet.
That would give the government a much-needed handle on economic policy-making, which has been hamstrung by opposition obstructionism.
In recent years, the Fiat group has been making large investments in Maserati, which it controls through its Ferrari subsidiary.
Both industries are able to transfer intellectual property around the world, making it easier to justify recording profits in different countries. Times, Sunday Times
The very idea of a “man of God” and a “preacher” making six figures, driving luxury cars and living in gated communities, with expense accounts, country club memberships and obese bodies is laughable and obscene. Think Progress » Hatch Warns Tea Party Activists: Work With The GOP…Or Else
He added: ‘We already take decision-making out to local communities through our eight area committees.’
I'll add that if you're feeding a high-quality dog food, most of the food goes to making more puppy, not to poop, so it's often the case that dogs poop a whole lot less than you might expect.
The evidence needed for sound policymaking should thus be much more comprehensive than attempts to extrapolate dubious principles from the findings of controlled trials.
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
The measure of core column is adopted to superhigh column, in order to making up the ductility of aseismic performance.
A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.
As the sun sets on the skyscrapers, neon lights hug the outsides of the buildings, making the skyline look as impressive at night as it does during the day.
Well to me, being on stage is the closest thing to actually making love, you know.
Does our work provide us with a sense of purpose and meaning that goes beyond just making money?
Trey listened with a patient ear, only making distance with the receiver when she whined or couldn't make out her blubbering.
The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
And, with global warming only getting worse, with us fighting wars over oil, etc., they should be stepping up production of greener vehicles, not making bigger SUVs and the hated Hummers.
Fifty researchers telephoned for a loan or credit card with each of these four lenders, making a total of 200 calls.
Remember, if you will (I certainly do), that one of the selling points of the post-VII "reforms" was that they enriched Catholic life and worship by making them relevant and immediate rather than old-fashioned (for which read "dignified") and outdatedly stiff (for which read "reverent"). You report: Promotional Posters for the Traditional Latin Mass

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