Example sentences for: made-up

How can you use “made-up” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Toward the beginning of Private Parts , a heavily made-up Howard Stern, playing himself as a college student, explains in a voice-over that to enjoy the movie, "you've got to suspend disbelief."

  • She constantly embellishes her stories and everyday conversation with nonsensical, made-up whimsy that she expects people to take at face value.

  • The reader gets the book home and proceeds to memorize polysyllabic words by the dozens, with their lenghthy definitions coupled with made-up sentences which often make little sense or, if they do make sense are dull at best.

  • To fully understand this week's photos of heavily made-up models in glittery frocks, readers should consult an annotated guide to the models' dye jobs, the "artichoke" haircut, and the new way to wear leg warmers (on your arms).

  • It's also that they make it very difficult to concentrate on Reagan and much too easy to concentrate on the made-up cast of characters flitting around him, improbably preoccupied by him even in the years before he was important, writing back and forth to each other about their fictional encounters with him and with each other, telling the story of their own families in almost as much detail as they talk about Reagan's.


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