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Example sentences for "what makes"

  • That's what makes it so pretty," said Jasper.

  • What makes it so cold up there, Grandpapa, when the sun shines?

  • What makes us believe the false is want of love.

  • What makes us not believe in the true miracles, is want of love.

  • This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance.

  • The dance itself is really hard work, exacting and violent; what makes it the favorite it is with savages as with children?

  • This is what makes an angel to be a heaven in the smallest form, a society to be a heaven in a larger form, and all the societies taken together a heaven in the largest form.

  • That the Divine of the Lord is what makes heaven, and that He is the All-in-all, may be seen above (n.

  • What makes us think this to be so is the fact that in ‘Shirley’—a story written in the epic method—the only passages of the poetic kind which really convince are those uttered by the characters in their own persons.

  • This is what makes us say that by far the most important thing in Tennyson’s life was his marriage.

  • What makes me think that Morris was greatly influenced by this canon is the fact that Morris could and did write humorous poetry, and then withheld it from publication.

  • That's what makes me so sore when I read about millionaires like Stafford having luxurious private yachts, giving fifty thousand for a picture and things like that.

  • That's what makes me so sore, I tell you.

  • That's what makes it so funny--" He was interrupted by the appearance of Oku with wine and glasses, which the butler placed on the table.

  • That's what makes me really think that women can never amount to anything in art.

  • That's what makes me doubt his infallibility.

  • I guess that's what makes me want to kick him.

  • That you never do, in spite of what I know--that's what makes me think of him.

  • Or rather perhaps it's what makes me think of you.

  • What makes it perfect is that it should have come about through our dear delightful Susie, restored to me, after so many years, by such a miracle.

  • What makes up the emergency field-ration of the German army, and why?

  • This great sensitiveness of the hair roots is what makes it hurt so when any one pulls your hair.

  • The first question that arises in our mind on looking at an engine or machine of any sort is, What makes it go?

  • Claud, what makes me rail against you so is that I believe she loves you.

  • He has sense enough to know what he is not to do--that is what makes him so difficult to deal with.

  • I've avoided all habits of thought all my life, and that's what makes me so useful a man.

  • Perhaps that is what makes her so interesting," said Mr. Fowler.

  • What makes me speak about the lake is that for a long time I thought these verses, Ton âme est un lac d'amour Dont mes pensêes sont les cygnes.

  • Even experts make mistakes; this is not denied; what makes my story so remarkable is that all three firms offered to publish an authorized edition of the book as soon as news of its success in England had been cabled to New York.

  • What makes us weary long after the cause is removed?

  • What makes a young girl blush when you look at her, or a youth begin to take pains with his necktie?

  • What makes men go to war or build tunnels or found hospitals or make love or save for a home?

  • What makes a woman slave for her children, or give her life for them if need be?

  • As a rule he does not even smoke, and that is what makes him so powerful against reproach.

  • What makes a wife so useful to an ambassador is that she adds her own power of intuition to the five senses already possessed by her husband.

  • What makes actresses so fascinating and attractive to men is that they are women twice over.

  • What makes us powerless to achieve anything are the sneers of all the wet-blankets and kill-joys of this world.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what makes" 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:
    par des; what about; what amount; what are; what became; what cases; what cause; what does; what have you got; what more; what must; what number; what parts; what precedes; what purpose; what seemed; what shall; what things; what time did you; what took; what ways; what you; whatever cost; whatever happened; whatever kind; whatever thou