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Example sentences for "make more"

  • Perhaps I make more of it than you may have meant or expected; if so, it is because I am interested and wish to express it.

  • And I should be so pained at heart if you supposed me capable of failing in my truth and cordiality, or in the warm remembrance of the time we have passed together, that perhaps I make more of it than you meant to do.

  • Then, unless you really have led up to a great situation like Basil's death, you are bound in art to make more of it.

  • Answer: "I don't recollect what day Gansevoort asked me my opinion, if it became necessary to make more prisoners, if we should be able to guard them?

  • The territorial government bills are now the object; and to make more certain of these bills they are put into the California bill, to be carried safe through by it.

  • When the admiral would have the other squadrons to make more sail, though he himself shorten sail, a white ensign shall be put on the ensign staff of the admiral ship.

  • When the admiral would have the other divisions to make more sail, though himself shorten sail, a white ensign shall be put on the ensign staff for the vice-admiral, a blue for the rear, and for both a striped.

  • When the admiral would have the other squadrons to make more sail, though himself shorten sail, a white ensign shall be put on the ensign staff of the admiral's ships.

  • If you want to make more money, the way to do it is to learn to use your head and save weeks, months of time, as well as the labor of your hands.

  • The fat man's natural feeling about a request of that kind is: "If you know how to make more money, why don't you use that knowledge for yourself?

  • The headline, "Let Me Show You How To Make More Money" might appeal to the impractical man, but it is not likely to gain the favorable attention of the fat man.

  • I certainly don't wish you to make more of the acquaintance than I have done.

  • In other words, we make more of our worries, by worrying, than are made for us by the cares of life.

  • Scorch (in order to make more palatable, as bread or cheese).

  • Increase (in number), make more, make many.

  • Strengthen, make intense, make more intense.

  • One day a young woman came to him and said she earned only three dollars a week and that she desired very much to make more.

  • The idea is that in this country of ours every man has the opportunity to make more of himself than he does in his own environment, with his own skill, with his own energy, and with his own friends.

  • Defn: To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

  • To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.

  • To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

  • To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.

  • The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

  • It is very easy, unless one keeps a plan thoroughly in mind, to get burdened with money and then, in an effort to make more money, to forget all about selling to the people what they want.

  • If we can buy as good a part as we can make ourselves and the supply is ample and the price right, we do not attempt to make it ourselves--or, at any rate, to make more than an emergency supply.

  • The men are thus enabled to make more voyages to the haaf than by landing each time at the curing-beach.

  • Because I would be able to make more of the 14s.

  • Did you ever get the money to make more of it?

  • At a quarter past four the Admiral made the Repulse and Resolution signals to make more sail; at three quarters past, Sir S.

  • At thirty-eight past ten he hoisted signal for the commander of the third post to make more sail; observed the Duke's main topmast go over the side.

  • Admiral made the Alcides and Marlborough signal to make more sail; at fifty-three, P.

  • At half-past four the Admiral made the Conqueror's signal to make more sail.

  • It is a glorious dream, but the world will have to make more progress in philosophy than it has in science before it comes true.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make more" 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:
    eighteen hundred and fifty; extensive tract; know from; make another; make any; make contracts; make good; make head; make his; make inquiries; make intercession; make light; make more; make out; make progress; make restitution; make sure; make the; make this; make war; make you; makes them; must accept; see you; unclean spirit; wooden house