How to Use make sense in a Sentence

make sense

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  • In this case, Tavia Nyong'o is like, that does not make sense.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
    Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Lasers make sense Lasers make a lot of sense in the vast emptiness space.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Even writing about him in the past tense doesn’t make sense.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Yeah, some of [the races] don't really make sense, right?
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 5 May 2023
  • Many of the characters in The Good Half act in ways that don’t always make sense.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
  • The moves make sense for a Dodgers team still trying to improve around the margins.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But Megan’s actions and even the first half of her scene with Adam don’t make sense without that guilt.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
  • One rule that does seem to make sense: Maybe don’t date men who live with an ex-partner.
    Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Kids Are Growing Up finds Laroi beginning to make sense of bits and pieces of it all.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And my life can finally make sense to the people who matter to me.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Some parts of the DMA might not make sense or withstand legal challenges.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Wallen and Combs make sense as the two artists to hold these two spots, as very arguably the two biggest artists in country right now.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 27 June 2023
  • The idea of boosting your immune system doesn’t make sense for lots of reasons.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Here are 5 players who make sense for the Bengals to target in free agency.
    The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
  • As her 6-month-old lay dying in her arms, Becky Kekula struggled to make sense of how this could be.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • To the contrary, Christmas is one of the diminishing number of things that still make sense to me.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Around her, mourners cried and embraced and prayed and signed their names on crosses in black marker and tried to make sense of it all.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • And like past seasons, pretty much everyone is stressed out and trying to make sense of the world.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
  • There is an expansive quality to the play’s universe that makes the length make sense.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • For many workers, the mandates just don’t make sense, and some research supports their views.
    Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • One of the joys of working with TIME is the brand’s relentless curiosity about our world and how to make sense of it.
    Time, 15 June 2023
  • In hindsight, McDavid thinks Joann could no longer make sense of menus and was trying to mask her symptoms.
    Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
  • But even without the housing element of Measure J, the economics of the plan, like for the one in 2020, do not make sense.
    East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Robinson would address the latter and would make sense even if the Chargers don’t trade Austin Ekeler.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Like, there’s a little person inside your head who’s looking out through your eyes, trying to make sense of the world.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Police have not released a motive in the shooting, and those who know Jones have struggled to make sense of what happened.
    Justin Jouvenal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There’s pencil, there’s pen, and to take this information in and make sense of is already a challenge.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Some cloud platforms offer different ways to secure your account—get to know them and use the ones that make sense for you.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Two nuns in among and amongst the world, trying to make religion make sense — in a monastery, in a country and in a gender that has sort of been forgotten.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023

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