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Example sentences for "what made"

  • Oh, Miss Johnson," he cried, "what made you do it?

  • Oh, Adaline," he murmured, "what made you so cruel to me?

  • What made her so different from his mother?

  • What made Erasmus labor in Euripides tragedies?

  • What made ye Chians and Colophonians fal to such controversy?

  • What made Alexander I pray you esteme of him so much?

  • What made Austin so much affectate ye heavenly fury?

  • What made it worse for me was that I had come into my own money, and so I flung myself into a life of pleasure, and plunged headlong into all the recklessness of youth.

  • What made him so patient and forgiving of the injuries done him by the worthless Keimer and Keith?

  • What made him so liberal of his money and services to the base Collins and Ralph?

  • What made him so importunate with his young acquaintance in London, to divert them from their brutalizing and fatal intemperance?

  • What made me leave every fardin' I had in the world with Poll Onion, when we ommust wanted bread, an' go to Carnarvon on Shanks's pony?

  • Winifred's dukkeripen on Snowdon has come true, and it wur me what made it come true.

  • What made me think," he reflected, as he went under the gateway, "what made me think that she would be sure not to be at home at that moment!

  • What made me think that something of the sort must be happening to you?

  • What made her so cold, so white, so proudly reserved, so like a walking ghost?

  • Only once while the delirium lasted did Edith refer to Arthur, and then she said reproachfully, "Oh, Nina, what made him do so?

  • What made a man understand the fact of dying over the water?

  • What made thousands of peace-loving men go on in the filth and dirt, only to die like rats at the end.

  • What made 'em keep their tails up, and their chests out?

  • I have often thought since, of what made me take that economical figure.

  • What made me go down I do not know, but five minutes afterwards I did so; and just by the kitchen door, saw her with one leg on a chair, putting up her garter.

  • That's what made it so horrible--so impossible.

  • What made you go and get sunstroke, Allegretto?

  • I suppose that is what made you so late for luncheon?

  • Would you know The authoritative answer, when folk urged "What made Aldobrandini, hound-like stanch, Hunt out of life a harmless simpleton?

  • Say, 'what made moist my lip, That I acknowledged moisture:' thou art saved!

  • What made you--may one ask-- Marry your hideous husband?

  • I'm glad God sended a girl, and that's what made me laugh.

  • What made Mr. Grimes behave so strangely, boys?

  • What made you go and meddle with my dear little gold-edged tea-set?

  • What made it worse, he had seen the entrance of the Baron and the Reverend Saul, and knew by this that instead of being a favored mortal in the eyes of these ladies, he was really, in their estimation, placed below these comparative strangers.

  • What made it more perplexing still was the new revulsion of feeling that now was manifest.

  • What made it worse, however, was the state of the mountain at this particular time.

  • The stranger was standing there too, and that's what made me so excited.

  • What made you so long, Mr Simple--where is my night-glass?

  • What made it more appalling was, that we were on a lee shore, and the consultations of the captain and officers, and the eagerness with which they looked out for daylight, told us that we had other dangers to encounter besides the storm.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what made" 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:
    each corps; potassium chloride; said especially; what appears; what became; what becomes; what condition; what had taken place; what has; what has been said; what need; what parts; what precedes; what profit; what prompted; what then; what thinkest; what time did you; what was; what ways; what will; what woman; whatever else; whatever may; whatever they; whatsoever they