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Example sentences for "make itself"

  • That which is potential cannot make itself actual, for to make itself actual it must be actual, which is contrary to the hypothesis of its being potential.

  • Before it existed it was not there to make itself; after it existed there was no longer anything to make.

  • Other fragments occur which clearly belong to this group.

  • The Tell el Amarna tablets tell us of the complaints made by the kings of Babylonia of the robbery of caravans in districts nominally under the control of Egypt.

  • Here the security is worth little more than the loan.

  • And then two great rules seemed to get themselves laid down--not by general consent, for there were many who greatly contested their wisdom--but by some force strong enough to make itself dominant.

  • It was a question which could not fail to make itself audible.

  • The long winter evening had begun to make itself felt by its increasing gloom before he left him.

  • In the meantime the university had begun to make itself felt as a corporate body for general uplift by publications of various kinds.

  • During the Tertiary period the influence of the central heat may have ceased to make itself felt, in consequence of the increased thickness of the terrestrial crust.

  • It was at a subsequent period, that is, in later Tertiary times, that the cold began to make itself felt at the terrestrial poles.

  • Circulars addressed to all the agents showed them that they had to do with a Government which knew how to make itself obeyed, and which was determined that everything should give way before the law.

  • Did shelter fail among the trees and rocks, this curious new thing-began to make itself harbours of its own; was food irregular, it multiplied food.

  • He would have perceived a disposition in this creature no beast had shown before, a disposition to make itself independent of the conditions of climate and the chances of the seasons.

  • It is the voice of the American tradition strained to the utmost to make itself audible to the new world, and cracking into italics and breaking into capitals with the strain.

  • What the State can usefully do, is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials.

  • Now that the first shock of the misfortune had spent itself, his invincible optimism was slowly but surely beginning to make itself felt.

  • When the rationalist movement of the old world began to make itself felt, it was at first largely through the influence of France.

  • Nor was the low voice of conscience, suggesting that such failures arose from mismanagement rather than from ill-luck, slow to make itself heard.

  • The death of the Prince had left the King of Navarre without a rival in the affections of the Huguenots; the Vicomte de Turenne, whose turbulent ambition already began to make itself felt, and M.

  • The cold shadow of the Cardinal, of Paris, of the scaffold, was beginning to make itself felt; was beginning to chill them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make itself" 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:
    make another; make arrangements; make camp; make fast; make fire; make firm; make free; make from; make further; make hast; make inquiries; make itself; make money; make much; make one; make ourselves; make peace; make sense; make speeches; make sport; make terms; make thee; make trouble; makes mention; thy own; will abide