Example sentences for: makings

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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