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Example sentences for: makings

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But it has all the makings of a perfect niche market.
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.
In short, the newly launched Barak era has the makings of the democratic version of a benevolent dictatorship."
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.