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Example sentences for: makings

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As for Dorothy, Mr. Irvine called her “a very beautiful little girl and, at the risk of turning her head, she has the makings of a very good actress.”
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.
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 Washington Post and Los Angeles Times lead with the heightening of security measures in the wake of last week's arrest of a man trying to enter the U.S. with the makings of several large bombs.
But it has all the makings of a perfect niche market.