making
IPA: mˈeɪkɪŋ
noun
- The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- Process of growth or development.
Advertisement
Examples of "making" in Sentences
- I'm not making an attempt to vaunt my products.
- The cost of production in making the yarn is high.
- He laughed, but broke off abruptly, the sudden change in his expression making Beth frown.
- Case responded by moving partners between offices, making lateral hires (which is ongoing) and making up five across its global network.
- _ -- In making this dial you need have no regard to the latitude of the situation, for that is to be considered in the _placing_, and not in the _making_ of it. 1st.
- They seemed to tunnel through her with their sorrow, something about their expression making it seem as though Poe were silently beseeching the onlooker for something.
- Thats such a thing as I never heared of before, said uncle Pullet, who had been making haste with his lozenge in order to express his amazement, making away with a note!
- I do not understand in what the discovery consisted; there may be a secret method of making an artificial composition, but how can you talk of _making_ a substance which naturally exists?
- "Much of the jargon making the crossover to real life is shorthand for new concepts, such as skin-in-the-game and subsidiarization, which everyone struggles to pronounce," Ms. Tahyar says.
- Perhaps it is a double entendre, but with author Sheila Kohler's original location being transported to the UK in the film, there is little chance of the title making real sense unless you read the book -- something I plan on doing soon, even if my damned Kindle does not consider it as important as say, Chelsea, Chelsea Bang Bang...