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    Use "make do" in a sentence

    make do example sentences

    make do


    1. We can make do with just seeing each other after rehearsals for the moment, can’t we?’


    2. “They are losers, who stupidly make do with 140,000 drachmas a month; they are cyphers, all of them!” she cries pompously and goes on with an air of profundity: “A businessman wants to earn as much as possible, this is natural! He will pay you as little as he can, unless you prove to him you deserve to be given something more!” … “A clever businessman will hire a secretary who will work for him for a month or so ''on trial'', then he will tell her she is incompetent and he will fire her without paying her a dime; then he will hire another stupid chick who will work for him for another month without payment, then another one will take her place, and so on, until he finds the one who will satisfy him fully” harangues Diana, showing her admiration for bosses


    3. Oh well, it’s an ill wind and all that! I’ll make do with washing my hair … now where is that nice shampoo Gilla gave me … it makes my hair smell gorgeous …


    4. It would help if I had some paper to write on, but I don’t … I’ll just have to make do with my memory


    5. She’d forgotten to get lantern fuel, but still had sugar-water for the ceiling so she would have to make do with it’s light


    6. “We need all reactor modules,” Kelvin said, “you’d have to make do with collectors


    7. His spare clothes were in his saddlebags on his horse so he would have to make do for the meanwhile


    8. The genie itself may be nothing more than a play of Such veils, and hence might we simply make do with Inanimate bottles and slow shifting star constellations?


    9. “Bloody hell mate you’re a greedy sod aint you three women pining for you when most of us have to make do with one”, and he grinned at me


    10. He said, with just a touch of sang-froid to make Doc prick up his ears

    11. Instead, he'd have to make do with studying streams of numbers and the occasional random image


    12. Walking to the bathroom he stepped into the bath, pulling the shower curtain closed behind him, wishing he had enough spare cash to have a separate shower put in, rather than the over-bath one he had to make do with


    13. It was later that afternoon when Aunt Martha beat me to the telephone by a short head and I had to make do with listening to a one-sided conversation


    14. Scared Poopless can help you make informed choices without having to make dog


    15. We’ll make do,” he said


    16. It was Law that essentially demanded the Arch-minister to be seated in the proper way, while he would have to make do with what little was available at such a time of need


    17. As you should know, we have to make do with what we can


    18. would make do without her


    19. In fact, when my younger brother, John, was discharged from the Navy at Hunter’s Point in San Francisco, my parents “ordered” me to give him my 1966 Ford Fairlane and for us to make do with only her GTO for six months until our Dad got his next new company car


    20. Our congregation was put to an unattractive choice, make do with supply pastors or accept the appointment of a retired pastor from northern MS who wanted to return to the active pastorate

    21. And that had to make do until spring (mud season)


    22. make do with a 3 ½ pound chicken; Lorna, always one to count her pennies, wanted to cut


    23. We have a need for infinite vocabulary but we make do with what we have by using words close to the meaning we want to express


    24. Many professional writers make incomes that would make doctors and lawyers


    25. It was cold enough for a white Christmas, but we had to make do with freezing pea-soup fogs that suited my feelings in regard to that festive wank


    26. DS Burrows had told her that back at his flat he had a new toothbrush still in its packaging she could use, so she decided to make do with that and the loan of whatever else she might need


    27. could buy a new one the following year, we had to make do with


    28. Other than Jared changing his mind, if there was one thing that could make Donna run away screaming, it would be his grandmother, Lady Annabelle Triplet, Sir Richard’s mother


    29. There was not a single lifting crane available in the port to help unload the dozens of ships waiting in the harbor, loaded with precious supplies but having to make do with the muscles of their own crews to unload their cargo as best they could


    30. The big house, money, anything you wanted, and I had to make do in a roach-infested, shit-hole of a trailer that was hot in the summer and freezing in the winter

    31. � She wished silently that she had a functioning GPS receiver with its constellation of satellites, but had to make do with a compass and a map


    32. I could only make do with those whom stood outside of his affection


    33. Since I eat mostly at the university or at restaurants near the cabaret, I didn’t need much in terms of a kitchen, so I make do with a toaster oven, a hot plate and a small refrigerator


    34. The process of new breed introduction continues to this day, and the purposeful inbreeding and accentuation of selected traits has led to inherent genetic defects that make domestic purebreds more susceptible to health problems than their wild and mixed-breed relatives


    35. That’s a generous assessment; I suspect we could make do with significantly less than that


    36. Until then, he’d have to make do with what he had


    37. She only works on hair if the salon is short handed, but I should make doing hair her passion after all of what happened


    38. He somehow managed to make doing


    39. The following day before Paul finished his lunch, Ellen decided her teenager was old enough to learn how to make do without some of the modern conveniences most people take for grant


    40. She just needed to make do until she had come up with a better plan

    41. notice, hear but not care willpower? Although not looking is such a pity but for his age, he will have to make do with it


    42. For the time being, you’ll have to make do with what knowledge you currently have


    43. While patching the lining make doubly certain that


    44. Until then you’ll just have to make do with the old cut and torn Teen-Zeens you keep


    45. The Roman citizens make donations at the temples in order to obtain the good will of the gods


    46. figured out how to make doors


    47. 'You'll have to make do with what I have got and that's precious little—a few answers but more questions


    48. including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary


    49. Without Caleb around to chase away the cold she had to make do with the water


    50. With this reflection Sancho made his mind easy, counting the business as good as settled, and stayed there till the afternoon so as to make Don Quixote think he had time enough to go to El Toboso and return; and things turned out so luckily for him that as he got up to mount Dapple, he spied, coming from El Toboso towards the spot where he stood, three peasant girls on three colts, or fillies--for the author does not make the point clear, though it is more likely they were she-asses, the usual mount with village girls; but as it is of no great consequence, we need not stop to prove it



















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