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Example sentences for: makings

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Throw in a couple of well- intentioned, overbearing grandparents, tearful reminiscing about the poet- waiter's dead sister, and repeated shots of characters gazing soulfully out at the Pacific, and you've got the makings of a movie so overwrought it should only be shown on Lifetime.
But it has all the makings of a perfect niche market.
A line drawn in rainand clay and the roots of wild broom--behind it the makings of a city,beyond it rumours of a nation--by Dalkey and Kilternan and Balallythrough two ways of saying their names.
The companion story, a news analysis by Janet Hook, sees "the makings of a honeymoon" in D.C.
In short, the newly launched Barak era has the makings of the democratic version of a benevolent dictatorship."