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Example sentences for "made about"

  • The roads were good, and, although we were climbing up all day, we made about twenty-four miles and camped one mile from Sargent.

  • We made about twenty-five miles this day.

  • And other verses he made about Angus' house at Brugh na Boinn, but Finn made them all out.

  • A verse he made about a great army that he saw riding over the plains to victory, and robbing all before it, and the riders of it having no horses but plants and branches.

  • And as for us that stop here," he said, "let a wall of fire be made about us on the one side, and a wall of water on the other side.

  • The first of these is a Portuguese chart, made about 1504 by an unknown hand.

  • A Dutch map of the Delaware, made about 1656, has also been lost.

  • Hieronimo da Verrazano, the brother of the navigator, made about 1529 a large mappamundi, on which the discoveries of Giovanni are laid down.

  • The entry of the needle should be made about 1/4-1/3 of an inch from the raw edge (Fig.

  • The eyebrow having been shaved, an incision 2 inches long is made about in the line of the brow, and the skin is dissected down almost to the lid margin.

  • A second incision is made about 3 millimetres above this, and its extremities are curved downwards to join the first.

  • Other than the statement he made about brutality in the theatre, and other than the statements he made in the car about "Why are you treating me this way?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "made about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great intelligence; made answer; made between; made bishop; made camp; made effective; made fast; made her; made here; made lace; made many; made mention; made only; made over; made paper; made partakers; made payable; made reply; made righteous; made slaves; made sure; made the following report; made them; manual training; medical inspection; more favourable