How to Use in the making in a Sentence

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• That's one of the reasons that this was 40 years in the making.
  — Patricia Alvord, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• But the gem of the night was the closer that was seven years in the making.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• In truth, though, this end was months, years even, in the making.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• Coates’ new job is one that has been long in the making.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
• The new routes were more than seven years in the making.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2023
• Coming up in 2024 is a plan that has been a decade in the making.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 2023
• Hotel has all the hallmarks of a hotspot in the making.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 20 May 2024
• It’s been a long time in the making, going back to at least 2017.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
• The Clipper is 10 years in the making, and will take 5 ½ years more to get to Europa.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2024
• Sweet Pork Wilson’s has been a long time in the making.
  — Alex Darus, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• The project was 10 years in the making, yet seems to have arrived at just the right moment.
  — Rachel Dube, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
• The movie, which also stars Hugh Grant and Amy Schumer, was more than a decade in the making.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 3 May 2024
• No bees were harmed in the making of this episode — but some humans were.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
• None of them were involved in the making of the song in the first place; the track was created with AI.
  — Vulture, 21 Apr. 2023
• Migrants hitch a ride for what will be, for most, the last leg of a journey months in the making.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 May 2023
• Nyong’o also had this front of mind in the making of her podcast.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
• Three are complete, and there's also a fourth in the making.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
• The Sphere, which cost more than $2 billion to build, has been about seven years in the making.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Met show, organized by John Guy, has been many years in the making.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Iran's support for the Yemen Shia Islamist rebel group has been years in the making.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• The legislative win, 20 years in the making, was supposed to be a slam-dunk.
  — John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
• Snyder is a hands-off lender, this person says, and has had no say in the making of or the release of the film.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• The bill had the support of all of Thailand’s major parties and was more than a decade in the making.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Many who worked there say the fire that tore through the area and shut down the freeway was a disaster years in the making.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Kim Petras’ rise to the mainstream spotlight has been years in the making.
  — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Khloé Kardashian’s son Tatum is a style icon in the making!
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2023
• The products, which were seven years in the making, were announced at the end of July.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2024
• No animals were hurt in the making of this movie—or in the production of that.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
• And, as always, smiles lit up the room when some 150 young protégés in the making from ABT’s training programs had their moment in the spotlight.
  — Freya Drohan, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
• The slow disappearance of full-length books in the classroom is a multifaceted problem many years in the making.
  — Theara Coleman, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024