Once Annabeth had made up her mind, arguing with her wouldn’t do any good. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Colonel Lloyd’s slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a flash—a quarter second—Achilles has made up the distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you made up with her when you became a god.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Many had circled around her, even fallen head over heels in love with her, but until I came along none had made up his mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in a lower voice, she added, to make up for her peevishness, “You are such a sweetheart.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then you’re supposed to make up a story whereby you indicate to the cop how much money you have on you. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the time the final bell of the school day rings, I’ve made up my mind. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The story sounded rather involved for Joan to have made up out of whole cloth, but I led her on, to see what would come of it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Half of one wall was made up of panels of smooth, perfect glass. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In one hour she had found out that everything was made up of atoms which were in continual motion. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canary cage showed that those aims were made up on the spur of the moment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Here we were on the very trail of a spy and Call was going to get upset by a ghost—a made-up ghost, one I had made up. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes up a set of books, for the business end of my painting: what has sold, and for how much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she considered, and then she made up her mind. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The Customs House collected tens of millions of dollars in duties on these products, and this money made up a large part of the U.S. government's income. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She learned the events that made up a person’s life, and she used them to understand why they did the things they did. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t mean that you should make up a story about something you never did!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington wanted a special operations unit made up of volunteers who could both fight and gather intelligence “by water or by land, by night or by day.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monkey and its owner made up their quarrel at once and streaked off into the night. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I may just go in as a junior in September, business as usual, and eventually make up what I missed in summer school next year. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

What my eyes cannot see, my mind makes up for, and I picture dark dead faces staring up at me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then he should make up passwords we can remember. Can you remember the last one?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the floor; it’s made up of foot-long tiles in red and white, like a chessboard, and I imagine how a knight would move across it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, once she made up her mind to go, she enjoyed the planning almost as much as she enjoyed spending money. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then again, maybe he’s really trying to make up with me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“She isn’t here either, no matter what stupid stories you’ve made up in your head.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was a little disappointed that the car was not so expensive as he had hoped, but what it lacked in price was more than made up for in color and style. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had made up her mind to forget him and she did forget him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In that moment, Chamberlain made up his mind: Tom would have to go. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kind of blended more into my own fantasy style so that by the time the structure reached my city section, it was made up of everything straight out of my head and all dream-kissed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It waggled its long ears, making up its tiny mind, then slouched slowly into the room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“The Spirit Medium has to make up his mind.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A group made up of an accordion and drums played the songs of Francisco the Man, who had not been seen in Macondo for several years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He said to call as soon as I made up my mind. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbit had elaborate scrollwork making up its middle, and bells hung off its feet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The roof was made up of a series of triangular frames or trusses. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

About this time, Marian was invited to join the People’s Chorus, made up of a hundred voices recruited from black church choirs all over the city. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

And Robert looks at me, his dark eyes smiling, asks, Is that something you made up? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

What she lacked in smarts Hasina made up for in mischief and a mouth that, Giti said, ran like a sewing machine. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’m looking for books about ciphers or making up codes,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once we reconnected, I was overcome by this drive to make up for all the years we’d missed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He was guilty of a terrible crime when he was young, and he could never forgive himself for it. He believed this last act would make up for everything.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had already made up my mind to never use foul magick again. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Those teenagers made up seven to eight out of every ten slaves brought to Americas sugar Hell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I believed I knew where he headed the night before, and made up my mind to find him and offer him my support. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judges couldn’t seem to make up their minds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this particular rural Southern community, the population was about 27 percent black, but African Americans made up only 10 percent of the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No. By the time she went to Tony’s house, her mind was made up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

After twenty-four hours of tireless work, Anthony went to the university trustees and presented $8,000 in pledges to make up the shortfall. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Looking back, she would realize this was proof that she had already made up her mind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was made up of all of these good and these bad things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d made up my mind that if the bulls met and started a fight, I was going to see it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At other times, for instance, I would make up new laws. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

We were all done making up the couch then. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I am in love with both, I tell myself, and having two means that I don’t have to make up my mind about either of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try to make up words, Oh, The Walls of Limerick are falling down, falling down, falling down, The Walls of Limerick falling down and the River Shannon kills us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, I made up a story and Gloria Dump would listen to it all the way through from beginning to end. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he worked he hummed, and she made up words about the seal who wanted to be a coat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Strange and mysterious and to make up rhymes, sing songs, tell fortunes. He said I looked startled by life, Chaya. Do you think so?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie wasn’t sure what she would do if Mama once again chided her for being too dreamy and making up fairy stories. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I had a hard time making up my mind about performing in front of a crowd. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They found the sheets in one of the front bedrooms and made up the beds together, folding hospital corners, plumping up the pillows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But of course!” he cried, making up for his first hesitations with an excess of noisy cordiality. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if Alice couldn’t make up her mind who she was and which world she wanted to live in. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a different sort from the one we had. Are they made up the same?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Again, I’m making up numbers that I know nothing about. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When we’re little, one of the first things we learn is the alphabet. Those twenty-six letters make up the millions of words we use, and those words can form anything we want, including poems.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Scarlet splotches glistened on his cheeks as if he had been made up for some grotesque stage show. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music made up for everything— the silent contempt of the servants, Steven’s and Emilia’s snubs, Tom’s hatred. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The atomism of Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius implied that the universe is made up of building blocks that function through their size, shape and solidity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I got home much later than usual during that week because I had to make up for lost time. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My father began looking for someone to tutor me, to help me make up at least part of what I had lost. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her hands hovered over the edge of the lid, but for some reason she could not make up her mind to open it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Foreigners, kid. Immigrants. People who come from another country. That’s most of the people in Manifest. The whole town is made up of immigrants who came here to work the mines.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Melodies are often described as being made up of phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s just one more moment they were cheated of, and one more I have to make up for because I’m all that’s left. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Just like the chemicals that made up Agent Orange. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the landing I stumble over my pack, which lies there already made up because I have to leave early in the morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unabashed king-size bed made up with a flowered bedspread stands in the dead center of the room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was made up at Turin and reached Milan about half-past ten at night and lay in the station until time to leave. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“So I became the Director,” Tanin continued, “tasked with recovering the Book and making up for a betrayal that set us back decades.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was lukewarm to the proposal and tried to make up my mind to stand alone, write alone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Nico had made up for that by helping the Greeks against the Titans, but still... The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was able to deduce from their body language that they had made up and this made me pleased because it showed how much better I was getting at reading body language. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind a long time ago, I’m not having none of that. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had made up his mind: he would journey on to Songdo and show the emissary the single shard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The worst of them made up uglier names than Bolshevist even, and allowed the brutal side of their natures to dwell on imaginary enormities which they attributed to the knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie Mol lay asleep on a little camp coc that had been made up for her next to the big bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We put the last of the coal on the fire and sit around telling stories which we make up the way Dad did. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nhamo wanted to say she had made up the part about the growl, but it was too late. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes no sound until the moment of its death, at which point it lets out a long scream made up of every sound it has ever heard, regurgitated backwards. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine they allow seventh graders to come to school made up like that,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I made up a list of materials and took it to Dad, who was in the kitchen again. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there...I have quite made up my mind now, I shall not say anything more about it, you are much too tired already.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind to rummage through Uncle Chester’s books for one on animal husbandry. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he does make up his own rules sometimes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When I tell them that my mind is made up, she will not try to keep me. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s making up his mind too quick. I know I’m going to die.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The points accumulated from all of these competitions would make up the US national rankings, and the top four finishers qualified for the national team for the following season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That evening there was a banana moon and all kinds of sky-glitter—the name Genie made up for stars. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted a chance to confess, a chance to make up a story about that piece of paper. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young one and the tall one kept looking to the oldest, waiting for him to make up his mind. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She lived in the country and couldn’t get to church every Sunday, so she made up for her absences by shouting so hard when she did make it that she shook the whole church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swore I’d read that myth book cover to cover to make up for throwing my reader out of the window. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was paralyzed, unable to make up his mind. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I stole the letterhead from Mr. Zuniga’s desk and made up the rest.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How she said don’t ever make up a thing to say just to make the lieutenant happy. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It’s as if she thinks volume makes up for her lack of pitch. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Okay? It is wondermous, another word I just made up. Now then, to read you the rules of the game—because every game needs rules—here is your friend and mine, Dr. Yanina Zinchenko!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It sat in the curve of Carpenter’s Road, which, in four blocks, made up all die sporting life available in the Bottom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They say, We hear you making up all those stories. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And she and I never really made up. We just...” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

No doubt the boy had made the mistake of thinking that the Night's Watch was made up of men like his un-cle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Our battalion is made up of field engineers and we use only the mighty ogbunigwe.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But just the idea scared me so bad I made up that Papa had told me to build a shelf on the back porch for Mama’s flower-potting stuff. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For all the requirements I’ve made up in my head, I can’t wrap my mind around how simple it is to compete in the pageant and how many girls are actually eligible. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She felt it her bovine duty to make up for each and every one of Plug’s kindnesses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The song was over before I realized it, and I clapped enthusiastically to make up for my inattention. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, I’m living like a normal teenage girl, making up for the years that were stolen from me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to make up for my poor practice and soon my lungs are aflame and my legs are screaming, threatening to quit on me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon Jody went to the house and brought his bedding down and made up a place to sleep in the hay. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they started singing their own money-saving song, and Fern made up a part about how they had to save the money from me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was seventeen years old but trailed with the twelve-year-olds—making up the last in line or meeting the others on their way back down the row. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the boy made up his mind that even if it were a ghost. it would be the ghost of a bright, and bright were bound by their vow to help people in distress. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The development approach involved taking small cells of melody or rhythm, or both, and making up a whole discourse from them over a twenty- or thirty-minute period of growth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She will make up an operator and a destination for every single one of those phony radios, and the frequencies and code sets to go with it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

During weekends and school holidays, the four of us were inseparable, racing in and out of each other’s yards and making up games on the fly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But why would I make up miracles about paperwork? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My parents were like any other parents; they bickered and made up all the time. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Since Francie had five years in which to make up her mind, the responsibility of deciding whether or not to marry Ben did not weigh too heavily upon her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to make it up to June somehow, even though she knew nothing would ever make up for what she did. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Often a little group was made up of a mother with her children, or two or three adult males by themselves. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I almost woke him, but then I decided that I was sixteen years old and could make up my own mind. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It seems like such an impossible thing, now; like something you’d make up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind to go that very night. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m making up my own story tonight,” she said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Under the theory that light is made up of waves, it was not clear how it would respond to gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d made up the word “questers” on the spot, and it seemed right. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have until Sunday to make up your mind. Time is ticking by.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Walter saw that my mind was made up and he said he would not stop me, but that he hoped I knew what I was doing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then having made up his mind he acted swiftly; and catching up Pippin and setting him before him, he turned Shadowfax with a word. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The children eagerly copied the steps, and what they lacked in accuracy they made up for in verve. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You never played with toys much when you were young. You were always out in the yard making up these strange scenarios and fightin’ imaginary pirates and monsters. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Everything that makes up this tiny town that’s forty-five minutes from a big city and four hours away from an incredible island. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

J.T. had made up the story because he didn’t want me over. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

After his bath I got his pajamas for him and made up the couch for him to sleep on. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It pleased her to make up the difference. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pilots and navigators of the 587th kept a long-running volleyball competition going whenever they got a free moment, with the two flight squadrons making up their opposing teams. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The whole walk home they laughed about Fredo, making up silly jokes about him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was on her own, making up a bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He made up three hamburgers but deliberately put only one in the pan to cook. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Richard wished he hadn’t said he was a writer and so he added, as if to make up for saying he was a writer, “I’m fascinated by the discoveries at Igbo-Ukwu. The bronze castings.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mudd, nervous and afraid, forgets the story he made up and rehearsed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you’ll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everything is made up of books—the floors, the ceilings, even the pillars between the bookcases. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was as if the demons could not make up their minds. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earth and water together make up what looks like a single globe, although they are in fact distinct spheres with different centres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The apartment is made up of five hot rooms—two bedrooms, one bath, a living room, and a dining room/kitchen—that feel like the inside of a tandoori oven. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought you had not made up your mind,” her mother said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The crops in the Eastern Agricultural Complex could not readily make up the difference. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

None of us used to like to jump grades, because it meant making new friends and trailing behind the rest of the class until we could make up the work. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just a couple more months. I've got the route mapped out and a guy making up papers for everyone." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The panel was made up of two men and a woman, all middle-aged. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She had made up her mind that first day to pay attention in Miss Harris’s class. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Usually she was the sister who knew everything, the one who was in charge, who made up the rules for the games and decided who won or lost. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The twisting iron fence that surrounded it, the smooth red rock that made up the facade, the wide windows that winked in the sunlight. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s—I made it—to give to you—to make up for losing the lettuce.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They might look like Native stories, but they were made up by people who are not Native. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was about to tell her one of the bloodcurdling stories she’d made up to frighten the Oxford kids with, but the man was already speaking. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the mayor, the committee was made up of twenty-six individuals, though illness and death soon reduced their numbers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the first room, made up to look like a huge dining room, they found the pressure pads under the carpet and the infrared beams across the doors. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Surely I can make up my own mind. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course not the same ones every day, but always enough of them to make up the msh. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t pull away, and so I leaned in until we were pushed back onto the layers of blankets that made up her bed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She’s seen the pictures, too; there’s no point in making up something hopeful and defiant if I’m meant to be telling the truth. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I remember she laughed about how quick Grandpa could make up his mind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It almost made up for the fact that he had walked out of her life yet again. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was making up, of course, for all the days he had eaten nothing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mom explained that blind people develop their other senses to make up for the sense they’ve lost. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

This limit means that primordial black holes could make up at most one millionth of the matter in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he has since made up with his girlfriend. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This kitten was given to Tristran to make up for missing the market. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Axel,” Daniel says, kicking at one of the small rocks that make up Axel’s long driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She spoke so much about the family that the children learned to make up imaginary visits with beings who had not only been dead for a long time, but who had existed at different times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could hear her talking in her strange language and I would make up things to say to her and things for her to say to me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always invite me, but I make up excuses not to go. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I already had them made up. They should keep you going for a while. Now, go on. I have much work to do.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But finding the wallet made up for all that, plus now they weren't going to starve. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

With this goal in mind, Moscow headquarters made up a list of top American scientists to target for cultivation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not this time. But a hundred giants almost make up for it.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She and my dad ended up signing a one-year lease for two warehouse bays that made up a total of 9,000 square feet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The man went around the dining room making up reasons for fining people. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We were delirious with it, tossing the chorus back and forth between us like a ball, making up new lyrics as we grew bored with the old ones. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was a three-way secret handshake they’d made up back in kindergarten. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Who puts their time and energy into making up spells like that?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I’ll call the school. But you have to make up the homework. Okay?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In a photo I have of the day our new president came to visit the monument, I’m standing in front of the house, all made up, my hair in a bouffant style. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maman used to make me tell her all the pigments that made up the deep red of an apple, or the brown of a peanut. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The ghetto teenagers make up their own minds they would rather be like the hustlers whom they see dressed “sharp” and flashing money and displaying no respect for anybody or anything. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, she was ready to make up her own story, even if she was less than sure how that worked. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

So he made up jobs for me to do, whether they needed doing or not. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only when he said it did he realize that he had made up his mind—long ago. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just sat in my seat and pulled out my math book to make up the homework I had missed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Tucker, but I’ve made up my mind,” said Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunny was the smallest of the three, but her temper made up for her size. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now this was a daring thing, almost enough to make up for his earlier lapse of nerve. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was driving past the sights that made up my ride to and from school, every day. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can make up something different to tell her. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now that I was removed from Jasper’s and Edward’s influence, I began to make up for not being terrified before. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s no use. I’ve made up my mind. I’m putting you on Traffic and bringing in Corporal Frond.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

So I made up my mind: I would go back to a camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“To make up his bed, I suppose. The compartment hadn’t been made up for the night.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t nice, but he’s sorry, I know, so go down and make up. I’ll help you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I swear I’ll make up all the work on time, can you wait to call them? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the start of October, however, Harry had something else to occupy him, something so enjoyable it more than made up for his unsatisfactory classes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago I started writing a story, something I made up from beginning to end, and I’ve enjoyed it so much that the products of my pen are piling up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Not just the ones I make up or the ones I play with on Sims. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Or else he had simply made up everything, and not just the Amazons. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Booth has already made up his mind: the Navy Yard Bridge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nicolas felt a rising desire to protect her and take care of her, to make up for everything. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know sign language but I taught myself the alphabet so I made up a sign name for Saint Rene. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I suspect she made up that rule for my benefit, so I could grow unfettered, without the weight of wet rags dragging me down. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The bed was made up, I saw the gleam of white linen on the pillow-case, and the tip of a blanket beneath the quilted coverlet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Olympic Village was actually made up of more than thirty white high-rise apartment buildings meant to house the 18,000 Olympic athletes coming to the city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It is made up of strings of shiny beads. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never had had his hand on so much money before in his life, so he made up his mind to see how it felt to be a millionaire. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

"I think I'm just making up a boy in my head." Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Without much discussion a committee formed made up of everyone there. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught us real ballet steps and let us make up our own combinations. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind to ask my mother about teachers and icebreaking exercises. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Amil and I play guessing games and make up little stories and dances to keep ourselves busy. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had long made up his mind to Jane Fairfax’s going out as governess, and could talk of it cheerfully, but Mr. Knightley’s going to London had been an unexpected blow. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Once his mind was made up, he rarely changed it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A National Law Journal survey from the time found that in large firms African Americans made up not quite 3 percent of all associates and less than 1 percent of all partners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Or sometimes they made up little nicknames to dominate us. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Got so miserable on the school bus, with him pulling my ears and singing that song he made up, that I took to riding my bike. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of handing on the tried and tested chants, as had been the norm in earlier centuries, Hildegard made up her own chant tunes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Tally tried to smile back, wondering if she hadn’t made up enough time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Peeta can only guess about the rebel tactics or make up things to tell his torturers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The second is missing the commas that delimit the phrases making up the list of inspirations: cooking, her family, and her dog. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“All this time, I thought they were just made up from myths and folktales, but...I was wrong.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her face had been made up prettily, as if she were resting, which Hazel had found terrifying. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

First of all, the melodic line of a piece of music is the string of notes that make up the melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Yossarian made up his mind to keep his mouth shut and did. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The jury had probably made up their minds before the trial even began. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But we were talking about the chicken, and about Mom making up her mind. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The British made up this song, to tease us in battle,” Paul added. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re tired, but first we must wait for Sticky to make up his mind.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was made up into little balls, fried and served with hot ketchup. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m left with a bodyguard made up of Gale, Boggs, and two other soldiers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And while he felt guilty about making up the bogus cigarette story, Roy also couldn’t help but think that putting Dana behind bars was a public service. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course she runs to Mam and they agree the only way I can make up for my terrible sin is to deliver Bill Galvin’s dinner for a fortnight without pay. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I let loose a string of curses—probably every one I’ve ever heard, plus a couple I make up right here on the spot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that I was not going to listen to anyone who told me lies. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to trust me. We needed to go to Boston. We’ll make up the schoolwork. Everything is fine. I promise.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the sleeping cars, however, where the porter was already making up some of the berths, there was trouble. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have not yet made up my mind.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I bet they make up new contests just so the Hubbards can win them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A posse of officials—I recognized the museum’s director—and a single photographer made up a farewell party. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t want to accuse Pa’s fiancee of making up words. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Any time he rested he could easily make up at night, since he had a flashlight now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For instance, “Q” is a rare letter in ordinary messages, but it makes up a whopping ten percent or so of this one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The square was full of people and the fireworks experts were making up their set pieces for the night and covering them over with beech branches. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The tenants, who still had no idea what Ampai was up to, complained about having to stumble around, so Somkit made up some excuse about tinkering with the tinfoil cones. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For instance, people are made up of molecules of water and a few organic contaminants. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly she made up her mind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rolled them again and made up words to fit their rhythm: Peas that go tink, peas that go tot, Peas that will never grow outside my pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life is certainly more than the amino acids that make up its proteins and the nucleotides that make up its nucleic acids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make up a game with the force field that surrounds the roof—one of us throws an apple into it and the other person has to catch it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s my newest story. I was born like this. The truth is totally boring so I make up stories for fun. I have lots of them if you’d like to hear.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In 1988 whites made up 69 percent and Hispanics 23 percent of the student body. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Consider these new clothes a gift,” she says, “to make up for all the birthdays I’ve missed.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

What she lacked in size, however, she made up for with the size and sharpness of her four teeth. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You could make up a bed in here for the boy, you know.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, we would take Boomer and walk through the graveyard, searching the mossy gravestones for funny names or making up stories for how the people under them died. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Most new words are made up from other, earlier words; language-making is a conservative process, wasting little. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night, man, I had to make up a few things.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to make up with her, not pick a fight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like a vacant blue hospital room, waiting to be made up for the next patient. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I feel good when I do something I know he would be proud of, like it makes up for all the things I’ve done that he wouldn’t be proud of. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Soon,” repeated Mo. “Very well. I'll have made up my mind by tomorrow. Do you have somewhere to sleep?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Years ago, when Mom and Dad first met, my mother was friends with Gabriel Wire and Lex Ryder, the two guys who made up HorsePower. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I was the preacher, Miss Love was the pi-ana player, and the both of us made up the congregation. Hit was a real nice service.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He shifted in his chair, looking like he’d made up his mind about something. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s got to be a pretty boring life, hasn’t it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, what the orphanage lacked in orphans it made up for in cake-baking trophies. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, you can’t just talk to animals forever. We’re giving the presentation to our class. Which is made up of people.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Either the guy’s away or he ain’t. You got to make up your mind.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome and Izzy had heard the story of the battle from Tee, and called to make up afterward. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Grains made up only a small fraction of the human diet before the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As weeks passed, Paul returned twice more with the same question, and each time he said he hadn’t made up his mind. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a lot of words back then, except for the ones in the language I had made up, that no one else knew. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to look twice to see that what she lacked in power, she made up in brains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must make up my mind what to do. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Caroline also says that she began at once to pick out tunes by ear and make up songs for herself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I liked it best when he sang, in his deep bass voice, some of the silly nonsense songs he and Mother used to make up when they were children. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ride the El sometimes and make up stories in my head about the people. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bodega had an unforgettable blend of nobility and street, as if God never made up his mind whether to have Bodega be born a leader or a hood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In May of 1984, I found some consolation that seemed to make up for all the discomforts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To clarify a remark someone made earlier, I confess that I am making up all the proper nouns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The window was open, my bed was made up with blankets and my things hung on the wall, the gas mask in an oblong tin can, the steel helmet on the same peg. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This is for you. To make up for what you gave to the general.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not made up of planks, otherwise I’d be too nervous to go forward. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To make up for it, he paints with even heavier strokes, the impasto thick and thicker. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The rest I made up as I went along. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Were there even five different two-letter words that could be used to make up a message? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Very gently he eased himself in on his side and turned slowly and laced his fingers behind his head and stared at the myriads of tiny colored dots that make up darkness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter,” I said, “the invisible stuff that makes up the universe.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I returned, glad for once to get the better of him in cross-examination, “I do not know, for I have not made up my mind.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were a guerrilla force, he said, made up of young Pashtun men whose families had fled to Pakistan during the war against the Soviets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For starters, despite the fact that black people made up over 80 percent of South Africa’s population, the territory allocated for the homelands was about 13 percent of the country’s land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All I need is a few pounds to make up the fare and a few pounds in my pocket when I land in America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bombs were dropped on the clusters of round straw huts that made up villages in the Nuba. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He could explain the situation to the Warden, and the Warden might make up an excuse for giving him the day off, so X-Ray wouldn't suspect. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The fact to keep in mind is that in the 1950s “blacks” made up about 80 percent of the Jamaican population, outnumbering coloreds five to one. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Fatalities in parking lots made up 1.25 percent of all accidental deaths during the last days of the Age of Mortality. Last night I decided I would choose today’s subject from a parking lot.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

You may be shocked by their youth, yet they are typical of the small army of young men that make up a major proportion of the population of our prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the first gray light slanted along the river, Kit made up her mind. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

You too can make up your own very large numbers and give them strange names. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not strong enough, like Pilate, nor simple enough, like Reba, to make up her life as they had. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Republicans— headed by Caesar’s assassins, Brutus and Cassius—made up the opposing side. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But then she’d have to think up stories to tell the young red-headed man, and she was tired of making up stories, tired. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two balanced brass plates made up the scales. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She wraps her arm around me like it’s second nature, and I lean into her and she leans into me until we make up one leaning person. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some of our rules were tried and true; others, we made up on the spot when the occasion called for it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The other is that wintering at a relatively northern latitude has advantages that make up for the disadvantage of its coldness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The old woman, small and grey as a mouse, never said a word, but the girl made up for it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So good to see you again, thank you for coming,” she said, with an extra dose of sincerity, the “so” emphasized, as though to make up for forgetting Ifemelu’s name. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He would cut his grant request to $500,000 and try to make up the balance from other sources. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Granted, they made up the bottom half of the 1990 list. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When we got Harry home, Joon and I made up some juk-rice and warm water all mixed together looking like glue. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"If it's not too much to ask," Venkat began, "what made up your mind?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to stroll down her old street, Calle San Jose, counting and naming the stray cats, making up a story for each one, the way she used to do with her sister. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Our four desks made up table number three. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She felt fiercely that she had to make up for her father’s criminal disloyalty, if it had existed, whatever it might have been. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On the south side of the office building, the stairsteps of a tiered grass field led down to an outside amphitheater and the cluster of classroom buildings that made up the campus. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Back at home in my room, I try to figure out how I’m going to make up with Patrice. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Prosper, however, thought the mastiffs made up for that advantage. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Callie never laughs, but the sincerity of her smile makes up for it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

African Americans, Latinos, and Asians now make up the majority of the student body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is these that make up the matter we see today and out of which we ourselves are made. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press myself down on the earth, I cannot go forward, I make up my mind to stay lying there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus copper sits on top of silver and silver sits on top of gold because of their chemical affinities as metals, while helium, neon, and argon are in a column made up of gases. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They weren't rich, but what Hugh's family lacked financially they more than made up for with the sort of exoticism that works wonders at cocktail parties, leading always to the remark "That sounds fascinating." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That problem grows astronomically as the number of people making up the society increases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She would make up a beef stew in a Crock-Pot, or she would broil several chickens. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think Charlie just went along with everyone else when we were teenagers, but now he’s ready to think for himself. It’s always good to make up your own mind,” Mom said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I took it into Scooter’s room and made up a story about a school science project. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They knew he was lying, Emenike who made up stories of rich parents that everyone knew he didn’t have, so immersed in his need to invent a life that was not his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And anyway, I had to do something to make up for being so useless at the beach.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The idea of making up an excuse for why I'm home early and sitting with them in hidden mourning is unbearable. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This dramatic change in the roster of nations making up the new America is yet another stage in the saga of this country as a melting pot of cultures and experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I need to make up for the time I took driving us out here so I can meet my deadline. No rest for the weary. But don’t worry, we’ll have a family adventure this afternoon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She could see them more clearly this time: each current was made up of thousands of tiny specks, all drifting and swirling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then she made up her mind and came at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she babies me, like it’s her way of making up for when she wasn’t around. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Presumably he would have made up some story to explain Alex’s sudden disappearance. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

After a moment she belched, smiled with satisfaction, and continued, “Don’t worry, the good news makes up for it. The spy’s been caught!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The opposite wall is made up entirely of screens, each a foot tall and a foot wide. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was often a struggle, still feeling like an outsider on my own team, but I made up my mind that I wasn’t going to let my teammates’ behavior affect my goals. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons, which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter, can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But tonight I have my own room, the bed neatly made up with crisp white sheets and two clean quilts. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

How could they ever make up for this? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He makes up for it by cultivating a tougher image. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She thought of how his eyes shone with merriment when he made up small jokes, which he did frequently, and how invariably kind he was to his small, scatterbrained sister Cynthia. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling and crying at the same time like her brain can’t make up its mind any more than Axel can make out what’s happening here. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Somehow he managed to get through the rest of the day, but by the time the final bell rang, his mind was made up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

All people, not just a select few she’s spent years making up her mind about. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“But when did you make up your mind to all this?” demanded Monsieur Farival. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fermi used graphite to slow down the speed- ing neutrons—he knew that neutrons would bounce off the carbon atoms that make up graphite and lose speed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so happy, even though Mother Lois gave me the usual speech about how I would have a wonderful big Christmas gift to make up for there being no birthday present. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like watching a motion picture, something you know is just made up, and yet you believe it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the Lord’s truth. I ain’t making up no story, it’s the Lord’s truth.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This new video appeared to be made up of notebook paper drawings that got crumpled and uncrumpled, over and over. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If you make your film predictable, they'll make up their minds about it long before it's over. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood still, trying to make up his mind whether to go back for it now or later. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I heard Doris come in, I called a timeout and started making up my bed. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t get an F in economics, but an Incomplete, which turned into an 89 after he made up the final. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Except for telling her I was sorry about the bosom stories I made up, which didn’t count since Aunt Loma wasn’t mad, I had never apologized to anybody in my life. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m just guessing on that, but Carl never moved much. He made up his mind ’n’ stuck where he was. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

You forgot, Apa says again, stepping in closer, making up for the lost ground. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind to leave the town. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fishes are almost fantastically sensitive to the chlorinated hydrocarbons that make up the bulk of modern insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The cricket was such a natural musician that he not only chirped the tune—in a few minutes he was making up variations and spinning them out without ever losing the rhythm of the waltz. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But though the father had made up with his son-in-law, there was still a strain with his own daughter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He’d been sluggish, slow to react when they’d ambushed the wagon, but that was all, and he could make up some excuse to account for it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The bed with its tufty chenille bedspread is so neatly made up we’re afraid to turn down the covers to look. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t,” she says, “so I tried to make up for it. To be perfect at everything else I did.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

All our names are just stupid nicknames they made up—like Alby for Albert Einstein, Newt for Isaac Newton, and me—Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Afterward, he helped the woman make up cots. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My mom nodded, and Carmen smiled as I watched Abuela’s and Abuelo’s ashes move with the current down the twists and turns of the many canals that made up our beautiful neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My favorite was “Let There Be Light,” a song that she had made up. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Father made up his mind, Mother would not try to change it. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, she made up for it today. She wants him bad.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He stood watching them a minute, like he was trying to make up his mind about something; then he went trotting after them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the ATA women were in units made up of both men and women at a dozen different airfields, although there was one completely female unit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I'd fooled myself into thinking that if I was outstanding enough, it would make up for everything. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They made up fearful stories about the gentle animal. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about to make up an excuse for why she had to get home, when a voice shattered the silence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was fixing to say something, but the fancy automaton conductor standing at the door said, “Sir? We’re trying to make up time.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

At least, we hoped that was true, and not just some nonsense that Ms. Hawkins made up. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“I have made up my mind,” she says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One of the other coaches from Bannon’s, Selinda, also moved with us, so we made up our own little team of eight athletes and two coaches. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The rest I can make up as I go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I gather that Nick gets Gary and Tiny to sort of make up, and the alliance agrees to seek money for both Tiny Dancer and a series of flyers aimed at education. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Marty was trying to make up lost ground by saying, “Maybe you could change the bandages on my foot,” but that was clearly just disgusting to everyone. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words she had made up that afternoon were not something she had planned. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s voice was low, excited, tense; but what it lacked in volume was more than made up for in the breathless manner in which he spoke. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Warming up was a little orchestra, made up of just an accordion, a battered trombone, and a musical saw that Horace played with a bow. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She realized that she couldn’t have made up that powerful memory. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to make up for Princess Butterscotch.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“A good number, especially for playing cards. But we may have to explain to Bo again that he can’t keep making up his own rules.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy stood up and said, “Spencer, I done made up my mind. I know you doing what you think is right and I do ’predate your concern, but I ain’t got no other choice.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Bigwig had been half expecting Campion to appear and had made up his mind to kill him if necessary. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you listened to his song you heard the things he was making up: when you looked round you, you saw them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

From 1538 the new understanding of earth and water as making up a single sphere became an orthodoxy among both Protestant and Catholic astronomers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted to protest that I wasn’t tired and I’d never made up a haiku in my life, but Apollo snapped his fingers, and the next thing I knew I was closing my eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. For somebody who was once invisible, I’m definitely making up for it now.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In 1919, the entire Coast Guard fleet was made up of twenty-six inshore vessels, a few converted tugboats, and twenty-nine small cruisers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Just like the term solfege which is made up of the syllables “sol” and “fa,” sargam is comprised of the syllables sa re and ga, the first three pitches of the Indian scale. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“No, because you can never make up your mind about anything,” he said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Aunt Evy was singing softly to them, making up a parody on the song. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha saw the river hasten, made up of himself and his relatives and all the people he had ever seen. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s probably the quickest kid you could ever meet when it comes to making up a lie. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now he realized, as his wheels bumped over the joints between the big sandstone slabs that made up the sidewalks, that he had never been inside. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I took her down to the grocery store yesterday and paid for a cartful of charity food to make up for the corn she was going to trade for groceries.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two more horseflies landed on Old Flapjack’s flank and it was a chance to make up for the mistake I’d just made. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The corollary is that widespread and open trade in ideas is the best way to make up for the lacunae. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was making up games outside with their siblings and other kids in the neighborhood. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

While I made up that whole firebomb story, there was definitely an actual fire inside of it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I made up some excuse about wanting them to help me plan a birthday party for June. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel, Bigger, that somehow, somewhere, or sometime or other you’ll have a chance to make up for what you didn’t get here on earth?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their lives are not made up of bits and pieces of versions of the truth. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there's a note in the file, the work can be made up gradually with no penalties. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because we're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love not actually being in love. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You think I can make up for the fact that you can’t have babies?” he said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There were almost as many red ballots as blue, but the sergeant left only ten red ones and made up the difference with blue ones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nationally, narcotics task forces make up about 40 percent of all Byrne grant funding, but in some states as much as 90 percent of all Byrne grant funds go toward specialized narcotics task forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought Father was going to make us do a lot of chores or something to make up for yesterday, but the atmosphere in the house was punishment enough. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Alex wakes up to find his bunk empty and made up, the pillow tucked neatly beneath the blanket. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cabins of Greens made up the next two rings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This new video appeared to be made up of notebook paper drawings that got crumpled and uncrumpled, over and over. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So he made up his mind to take the matter to an expert. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had been drafted and fought for the 442nd, the combat unit made up of Japanese American men. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wish you’d make up your mind and be mean or be nice. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie glanced down at the flare path far below, three pinpoints of light beckoning, welcoming, calling—and she made up her mind to try to land. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m supposed to make up a phony quote?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he finished his drink, made up the fire and went away to sleep, leaving Rowsby Woof shut in the kitchen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might wet the bed and barf at the drop of a hat, but his goodwill more than made up for it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was interesting to watch Officer Z maintain this story even though he knew that I knew it was made up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

James pointed to a bookcase raised on knobby feet that made up the arts and crafts section. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

August led us to a tiny corner room in the back with a sink, a full-length mirror, one curtainless window, and two wooden cots made up with clean white sheets. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The human body was likened to a machine made up of a series of levers. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It burns brightly with radiation, destroying all life and eventually destroying the atoms that make up matter. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We were also at war with Russia, It was called a Cold War, because it wasn't a fighting war, but one made up of words and deeds and threats of bad things. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe she trying to make up for her house being small. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He’d never kissed her back, but he might try it now, to make up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I am,” said Judith, “because this time I'm going to see to it that something happens. I’ve made up my mind.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

That was the scenario I made up in my head, at least. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I like to think I make up for the rather significant, err...beauty gap in other ways. Devilish charm and impeccable character, for instance.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her nose was too big and too sharp for her thin face, but her smile made up for it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She and Charles seemed to have made up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

You made up for a lifetime of that today.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Helderbergs are made up of layers of limestone and shale, through which underground streams and rivers have carved miles of caverns. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best part of the session was looking at pictures and making up stories, like I had when Adele took me to the therapist in South Carolina. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I think it was made up, but we had it for breakfast a lot. It was this fruit salad thing. This is my version of it.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

With all this variety and the constant stream of messages from the food industry and the media, how can we ever make up our minds? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She returns the stone inside the model house and restores the wooden panels that make up its roof and twists the chimney back into place and puts the house into the pocket of her dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For several hours, mobs made up of sailors and white civilians roamed Charleston’s streets, terrorizing any black residents they encountered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Weasley, can I have a quick word?” said Harry, making up his mind on the spur of the moment. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Miss Fairfax, I suppose, though you were not aware of it, had been making up her mind the whole day?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately my mind was made up for me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a story I made up,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can make up my mind about him, I become aware that there are others moving toward the place, drawn by the old man’s keening. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny was more than right because he had made up the whole story himself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rufe, if there’s a woman on the place who makes up her own mind, it’s Alice. I didn’t put her up to a thing.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They would need mercenaries, so officers recruited men from militias made up of squatters from Kentucky. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know exactly what was going on, but when he saw the men shoving Wilbur into the crate he made up his mind to go along. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

And, probably to try to make up for all the bad stuff that had happened to me lately, she drew in a big breath and said, “Okay. Let’s go see Sophie's sister. Why not?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I loaded my stuff into it and drove it to Utah, figuring the car would just about make up for the money Dad owed me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I just said such a thoughtless thing, and my brain is scrambling to make up for it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then Walt hands us our vests and our ID badges, and I am touched to see that he has made up two for me, one with “Barbara” and another with “Barb.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A column made up of Lakota, a few Dakota and Nakota, Cheyenne, and a few Arapaho. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t cry, you could tell from her expression she had made up her mind she wouldn’t. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is quite made up. Go away and leave it behind. Stop possessing it. Give it to Frodo, and I will look after him.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I do as the doctor says and I make up a prayer. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Second World War did something to Maycomb: its boys who came back returned with bizarre ideas about making money and an urgency to make up for lost time. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have picked a better night to show up and make up with Blanca. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Our village at the edge of the Białowieża Forest was made up of farmers and blacksmiths, butchers and tailors, teachers and shopkeepers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But as he made up his mind to cross the street and go in, he stopped suddenly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is unfair of me to do something that limits her choices, that makes up her mind for her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nobody would make up scuba diving to be their favorite hobby if it wasn’t so. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Doug P. made up a bunch of stuff about horses in case you didn’t figure it out. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Like I was actually making up hip-hop lyrics or something. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I know a few things about Father’s past, and what I don’t know, I’ve made up; I have the impression that Father married Mother because he felt she would be a suitable wife. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was just one of the regular old thirteen project buildings that made up St. Nick. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Amy shook her head and opened her sketchbook with an air of resignation, but she had made up her mind to lecture ‘that boy’ and in a minute she began again. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cole had finished, Garvey said, “You may never have use of that arm again. Life is made up of consequences, and you’ve sure made some bad choices.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The girls told her not to break her neck—that it was seasonable work and they’d all be laid off when the fall orders had been made up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I would just make up what happened next and tell her out loud. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

So I move to the front of the store and start stocking the cooler with six-packs and occasionally catch a glimpse of myself in the huge plate-glass windows that make up the front wall. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was assumed by many PIH allies that Goldfarb had already made up his mind—he wanted his resources to go to curing the vast majority. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When she had made up her mind, you might as well try to reason with the Eighth Avenue subway. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before she could make up her mind to touch it, Eevie’s hand shot out and plucked it for herself. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was really something to make up an outlandish story like that. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the black fabric that makes up her lady’s torso and the straight pins sticking out of her headless neck. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His fingernails are rimmed with grime made up of axle grease and planting soil and animal blood and who knows what else, ground in so deep it can’t be washed off. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And the sooner I left Greenwood, the sooner I’d be back in school, the less homework I’d have to make up. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“There are no words because each person makes up his own. That’s how friendship is.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One day Hrothgar made up his mind to build a great hall with some of the spoils he had won in war. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a phrase I didn’t know, so I made up that meaning based on how it sounded. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But made up or not, the silly dream had lifted some of my anxiety. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, from her look, there were not many things in the world she disliked more than a couch, a good eiderdown couch, that had been made up for sleeping purposes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

They were all fashionably dressed and carefully made up, and several of them were married. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’m terrified of maybe realizing that I made up the only detail about my mom I own, and then I’ll have absolutely nothing left. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says to Bridey, Did you ever hear that poem that someone must have made up about me and him? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was in the heavyweight division, and I had neither enough power to compensate for my lack of speed nor enough speed to make up for my lack of power. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of the room, using a ruler for a baton, striking each syllable so hard it was as if she were making up for the times she had nothing to strike. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No amount of making up shipping forecasts could stop me from thinking about it. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the molecules that make up our cells—carbohydrates, proteins, and fats—contain the element carbon. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had indeed privately made up his mind to leave on his fiftieth birthday: Bilbo’s one hundred and twenty-eighth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Since I was not yet twelve, I didn't wear the armband identification; when I was old enough to wear it, I made up my mind not to. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Pa had made up his mind and we flew to Oakland to get to know our mother. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I immediately made up my mind to join them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I made up every scrap of work in every class, I got a tutor, I studied like a monk... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, you must have been dreaming. You must have been making up stories. You are all the children there are.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long I had a few special friends, and we loved making up games. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, Sequoyah realized that words were made up of modest numbers of different sound bites that recurred in many different words—what we would call syllables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they did writing, she was the only one who made up stories about girls with magic swords and great destinies. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

By 1938, the Reich Labor Service had turned so many acres of forests and swamps into useful land that it made up for nearly all the territory Germany had lost in the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Atoms have a central core, or nucleus, made up of protons and neutrons packed tightly together. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three oars rested on one side bench, one rested on the other and one made up my life-saving prow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Were there even five different two-letter words that could be used to make up a message? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“My foster father taught me all the words in recipes and show me what herbs to use when. He even made up his own recipes. This one of ’em.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I throw an extra couple of dollars down myself to make up for it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve already decided on the pattern: a Double Wedding Ring, a series of interlocking circles made up of small rectangles of fabric. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The four principal beats of our bar are known as ‘crotchets’ - each crotchet is made up of four semiquavers - and we can use these crotchets to track where the strong, or accented, beats fall. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For the next couple of periods plus lunch, I sat around worrying about how much work I was going to have to make up and fuming about how Annette had known my secret all along. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope used the hour wisely; she made up the children’s beds, tidied the nursery, and cleared it of breakable objects. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The library had two big rooms, one for fiction, which was stories people made up out of their imaginations, and the other for fact, which was infor-mation about the real world. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I actually made up this place called the Shoreo a few years ago one night when we were staying at our aunt's house. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And then he made up his mind, and made it up firmly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just like Percy had seen in his dreams, the Big F was small by giant standards—about twelve feet tall—but he had tried to make up for it with his loud outfit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t figure out if he was trying to bring the mood back to a lighter tone, or if he was just trying to make up for getting crushed by Shannon. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We have to make up for lost time, travel as fast as we can. Percy’s and Annabeth’s lives might depend on it.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I made up names for them and clipped their wings and before long they were as tame as their parents. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex long ago made up his mind that when he got a dog, this would be his vet. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have to make up dances and tunes to go with them the way I did a long time ago when I was young. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Black Africans, who generally lived on only 5 percent of the nation’s land, made up over 80 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Before I could make up my mind, I had to visit one more industrial organic farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Once the money was handled, they took seats in the hard plastic chairs that made up the waiting room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The music that is made up of counterpoint can also be called polyphony, or one can say that the music is polyphonic or speak of the polyphonic texture of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

None of them could flatter me enough to make up for the fact that I had lost hours with my Notebook, my river, my specimens, and my grandfather. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Black students made up less than 9 percent of my freshman class. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I see some couples made up of one black, one white. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he and Aaron sat in our room all day long, making up rhymes and slapping each other five when something came off sounding right. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Comes a time when a man’s got to sit down and think, and that’s the time you got to make up your mind to sell your life for something you believe in.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the help she managed to give her aunt and uncle ever begin to make up for their trouble, and for the inescapable fact that she was another person to feed and clothe? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The basement itself was “gargantuan,” Volpe says, with enough room for a couch and a settee to make up a little waiting room, almost like one of the department stores. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In a forest, or wood—any kind of natural area—all the different kinds of plants and animals make up a whole, wonderful, complex pattern. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

This birthday celebration in 1942 was intended to make up for the others, and Grandma’s candle was lit along with the rest. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He tells Theo he's working hard and fast, making up for lost time because he had started making art so late. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All four days, so he wouldn’t have to make up those classes in January. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I apologize again, we can make up and be friends like before. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They had to answer to a school board made up entirely of whites. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

That curtain, it was like something someone made up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to make up for lost time.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been something they made up for use in hospitals, on bedsores. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a broad-shouldered being made up of water that smelled salty and fishy like the ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But she made up for it by letting my dad stay with us until he gets back on his feet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We make a lot of noise in the kitchen, maybe to make up for the quiet dinner. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It made her seem plainer, and her face was made up in pale colors that weren’t flattering either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We sat in the mall and made up stories about people who passed by. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While an organization like the ANC is made up of individuals, it is greater than any of its individual parts, and loyalty to the organization takes precedence over loyalty to an individual. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus going to make up my dying bed! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I tell myself that Yolanda being excited about wearing an armband makes up for Julia not taking the armband I brought for her. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Pascal and Boyle were then hailed as the discoverers of the vacuum which, it was now held, made up most of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He's been inviting me to come over, but I make up excuses. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of them, dressed in white jersies and forming a little protective phalanx, were the Pepettes, a select group of senior girls who made up the school spirit squad. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then two men tried to pick a fight with one another, so Tea Cake said they had to kiss and make up. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My heart had been broken beyond the repair of King Khosrou’s greatest weaver, and carried in it a hole so big it could be said to be made up entirely of one big flaw. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It would burn more than six million tons of coal each year to make up to eight million tons of steel and employ more than 30,000 workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She’s all made up, ready to play glamorous hostess for a day. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At this exhibit Vincent sees not only Impressionist paintings but also ones by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac—who create pictures made up of small dots. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They don’t believe because I’m some poor refugee kid who smells like pickles and garlic, and has lice, and I’m probably making up stories to feel important. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem fair, and I made up my mind to ask Mama what the trouble was with being a woman. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For clearly, this last part of the climb was made up the rock face itself. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall stop after the World’s Fair. I have made up my mind to this.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We talked about making up a secret language. Want to do that now?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered if there was anyone out there, really, or if David was just some story that uglies made up to scare one another. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If Mrs. Smith hadn’t already purchased the tickets two weeks ago when I’d accepted the invitation, I’d have made up an excuse now to not go. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I was kidding; that was a joke. I know you had to make up your own mind. Of course you did.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when it came to my filmmaking, something that made up three-quarters of my soul, she wasn’t there. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper looked to his wife, who said, "Our beds are good, and I shall have the maid make up a fire in the bedroom for you and your companion." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He says, Ah, boys, boys,You can make up your own minds but first stock them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It's been adding air to make up for the missing pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make up my mind about women with big mouths running for president or about Miss Marva Hendrix. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Principal Rivera just made up an excuse to keep us out,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The three of us do this bounce move we made up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I’d put in two dollars next week to make up for it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for some reason, I also feel like I should let people make up their own minds about Boy21—including Erin. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of people buying and selling make up a market. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Out in the street, late at night with autumn air blowing cold off the lake, he tried to make up his mind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d make up your mind in the next five minutes, if I were you,” Hermes advised. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think that I should tell Sam about this, and I really hope it does not prevent us from maybe making up inside jokes of our own. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And so we know that particles that were thought to be “elementary” thirty years ago are, in fact, made up of smaller particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bone-boy confides in me that he makes up most of his readings—but he’s vague enough that it all can be interpreted to be true by someone who really wants it to be. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He made up an address and put the vidphone receiver back on its cradle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that singing helps me think. I have now made up my mind.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“But we’ll make up our own minds about what kind of person Anna’s mother really is.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of delicate bones litter the clearing around the vehicle, scattered among thousands of porcupine quills: the remains of the small game that made up the bulk of McCandless’s diet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a very strong-willed person. When he makes up his mind about something, that’s it, finished.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Still, she such a good cook, sometimes it makes up for it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

To Cavalieri, every area, like that of the triangle, is made up of an infinite number of zero-width lines, and a volume is made up of an infinite number of zero-height planes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My mind obsesses over the pictures my mind makes up of their deaths, which refuse to let go of me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would she mind making up another four trays? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I turned in my Chapter Review Map on the culture of China to Mr. McElroy and added a list of Chinese characters and their meanings that I wrote myself to make up for being late. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Margulis has summarized the now considerable body of data indicating that the modern nucleated cell was made up, part by part, by the coming together of just such prokaryotic animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You said I ought to make up my mind, then do what I set out to do. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But what I hear, still ringing in my mind’s ear, is the Glee Club I belonged to, made up of girls from the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ryan scrambles after me, and I pretend to know the constellations, pointing them out and making up stories about each one. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He paid the clerk for the presents he had chosen and left the drugstore, having made up his mind to call it off. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ostensible reason, however, was to ask whether Mr. Woodhouse’s party could be made up in the evening without him, or whether he should be in the smallest degree necessary at Hartfield. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the kid stood there seeming not to be able to make up her mind what she wanted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He went along to his compartment and I called to the conductor to make up my bed.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll make up for it,” he murmurs against my ear, and then he kisses me again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had made up songs before; I had even helped my father compose a verse or two. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of the tree-lined streets and canals that made up Canal Grove. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now that Yossarian had made up his mind to be brave, he was deathly afraid. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She’d called to ask me to be in some sort of private organization, a club that, from what I gathered, was made up primarily of the wives of important people in Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If Georgie had been in the shed when I woke up, if I’d met him in the woods, if we’d made up, I might not have left the shelter of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

If I bought a hot dog on the street, I'd have to make up that money by eating eggs for dinner or walking fifty blocks to the library rather than taking the subway. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There are lots of pictures of the handsome President Kennedy and his pretty wife, Jackie, who looks a little like my beauty-queen aunt, only paler and less made up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

No amount of surprise would make up for the cruel pretties’ superior strength and reflexes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And yet, when the half-forgotten, hoped-for letter finally arrived, she had already made up her mind. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“So, of course,” said Taran, nettled by the girl’s remarks, “you’ve made up your mind that I’m not—whatever it is.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But as Pythagoras knew, the rationals aren’t everything under the sun; both the rationals and irrationals make up the so-called real numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s not lies or anything, just truths I made up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had made up my mind to talk to Mrs. Wheeler after school. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even surprised navigator Tatyana Sumarokova on the morning of her birthday after her night’s bombing missions, presenting her with a bottle of champagne and singing her a song they’d made up themselves! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a crazy thing I made up, I guess. I don’t know why.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its first prelude is now very well known - and incidentally made up entirely of a chord sequence, no melody, exactly as Bach’s hero Vivaldi might have done. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Sander would have done well to leave his face made up. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The large American said that that was “too bad, Ma’am,” and soothingly expressed a hope that the train might make up time. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not sign up that day, but my mind was made up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she asked me why, I started to make up some story about dust getting in my eye or having a sick grandma, but then I told her the truth. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Indian classical forms more than make up for an absence of harmony with highly complex and intricate melodies and rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When the cots were made up—they were sturdy wooden ones with metal hinges and canvas coverings—Rita was allowed to lie down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had even made up in my mind that no matter how good the food was, I would save some for Ma. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Doctor Warren was standing on the guardhouse steps, telling Miss Lyte that her father must be allowed to finish the night out on the bed the soldiers had made up for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Momma makes up her mind, there ain’t no use in trying to change it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe the story wasn’t made up after all. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She doubted anything would ever make up for that. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Are you having trouble making up your mind with so much cool stuff to choose from? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snuck behind the altar and I drank the entire bottle of grape juice and I ate the entire bag of Eucharist to make up for all the other times that I couldn’t. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We would sit around late at night and make up stories about the pictures in the sky: lions, dogs, bears, hunterfolk. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me and Ice was thinking about getting some labels and making up some perfume for the black woman,” Kicky said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Big news?” she whispered to me in the secret language we made up in the fifth grade. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A nurse who used to work in the hospital before it was bombed has made up camp beds for us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is a technology designed to make up for disease, or to postpone death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went out back to see Dad’s skiff, and Lice Peeking made up his mind right away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not the same. I think it’s because he did not have good relationship with his father. He makes up for it with his own children.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At least his name, Edgar Allan Toad, sort of made up for it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

These two haptic suits made up my entire wardrobe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He said, yeah, but that I’d have to make up the time later. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The both of them make up the lifeblood of this place. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Planet Earth was separated into several distinct ecosystems, each made up of a unique assembly of animals and plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time I’ve lost from setting up the dynamite is now made up as I rapidly get higher and higher, until I reach the wall of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The world was made up of suckers and fools, and today Garvey was at the top of the heap. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I’d find something. I mean I have three years of lost time to make up for,” I said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At the time the photo was taken, we were living across the hall from my father’s parents in Parkway Gardens, an affordable housing project on the South Side made up of modernist apartment buildings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And they would have to make up all their missed work once they got back to school in January. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Tendai looked down on the beautiful crisscross of streets that made up his city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons, which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other, producing electrons and other particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real gravitons make up what classical physicists would call gravitational waves, which are very weak—and so difficult to detect that they have not yet been observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell, and I’m sure my mom could, too, that he had made up his mind. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I feel that the penguins are really your responsibility,” she said, “and you must make up your mind.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was better to make up talk than to let out what she knew. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t believe anything they say. They don’t want to lose our business, so they’re making up all kinds of crazy stories.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

After he had made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Strongarms usually make up at least one-half of the fights, their skills and abilities better suited to the arena than almost any other Silver. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“So your father actually made up The Lazarus Door just because of you?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a predominantly white sorority, made up of mostly cheerleaders, rich kids, and the occasional Distinguished Scholar. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he filled a pot with well water, and began tossing in the ingredients for getting-better soup, making up the recipe as he went along. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No hard feelings allowed. Go make up with Lolo and Abuela.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Grammy is yelling up the stairs to me, saying it’s Lobster Roll Sunday, which is a holiday that Henry made up once where we all go to Chatham Pier for lobster rolls. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It was made up of all the marvelous things that had ever delighted his curious nose. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His truck’s got to be perfect, to make up for all the ways Judd’s not. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.’ Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used words like enemy fire and Attack HQ with a casual coldness, as if to make up for his crying. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It can be something you made up for yourself or something you’ve read somewhere that means something to you. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the top of the hill was a series of castle-like structures that made up the City College of New York’s Harlem campus. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After months of trying to make herself believe it would get better, Cas had made up her mind. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And Grace hadn’t quite figured out how to make up the difference between the two spaces yet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mama wouldn’t ever start anything else without she made up the beds first. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was tall—even taller than Koffi—and had a deep umber face made up of soft, rounded features: apple cheeks, a mouth curved like a warrior’s bow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Half my army is made up of unbelievers,” Stannis had replied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a single room, with a fold-out bed, made up, and a kitchenette counter at the far end, and another door that must lead to the bathroom. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were girls in hijab, girls for whom English was a second language, girls whose skin made up every shade of brown. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But when he explained the details of the operation, I began to see that the idea was simply too preposterous to have been made up. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have to be making it up. But why wouldn’t they make up something believable? I mean, his elderly aunt is named Bernice.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jethro said nothing, but as he plowed that morning he made up his mind to send the letter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would have never made up stories like this before, and we would have never found them funny. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the cook lying insensibly drunk on the kitchen floor, with a large bundle of fresh butter made up in the cupboard ready to sell for grease!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They did not know how to make up their minds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to sound eager, to make up for disappointing him yesterday. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

While she held the baby, she listened to Mama and Granma talking and watched Sissy making up a month’s supply of noodles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While a Stamitz mini-tune might be made up of a handful of notes, Haydn extended the phrase, testing the short-term memory of his listener, then coaxed a slightly altered or ornamented second phrase from it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She made up the Z because she didn't have a middle name, and she had strong feelings about being seen as an individual. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Raga-s are made up of short characteristic patterns that often show up in compositions. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The class seems to be made up of the same type of droopy kids that had stood with me in the bus line. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered who made up the rules about what was lame and what wasn’t, and who was cool and who was a loser. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was easier when Miss Scalapino read to the class from a book with illustrations because I made up my own stories, in Spanish, based on the pictures. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slept in a bed that was made up with Italian linens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I made up in my mind that I wouldn't do nothing that stupid ever again. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She was glad that their days in the forest were now over, and there was now a chance to make up for what had been lost. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“We’ll make up the clue using altered poetry, like the character does in Rhyme Schemer!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Silently, she made up her mind that if the clicker sounded, she would stop singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"Of course not! I made up me mind not to, long ago! Well, some time ago, anyway." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to make up for it by focusing on Rae’s explanation. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She is over sixty, her mind’s made up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made up their own songs as well as poems that others set to music. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’d spent most of the last month with Zooey or couch surfing at various friends’ houses, but now that he was back home, he seemed hell-bent on making up for lost time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We went out into the street and played a game that Dante made up on the spot. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I spent three or four months making up and learning songs for the elders, then I sang them when I was home for vacation. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When Chou makes up her mind, there is no changing it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what Everest lacks in architectural grace, it makes up for with sheer, overwhelming mass. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to get moving again, make up some time. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dante was very systematic about the way he made up the game. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then we raced the turtles across one of the large stones that made up the lion’s den. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made up stories about what Harrison had said about me; and when they saw Harrison they lied to him in the same way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that kind of made up for it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The quiz is made up of five easy questions. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Gabe had forced her to go into work, saying she had a month’s salary to make up and she’d better get started. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden planks that made up the floor stretched lengthwise across the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They say I can use the computer for my homework, but then sit there behind me as I make up things to research. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder, why did he make up a new name? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Except Joseph didn’t have to wait until January to make up all his classes. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Bethesda Hospital is made up of several buildings in a large complex all connected by glass corridors. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She suspected that he had made up his own lessons, and now, as her small pupils spelled out the gloomy text, she could not resist following his example. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I was now with the Sixth Division, made up of regiments from other disbanded divisions. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morse code is made up of dots and dashes, each of which has its own prescribed length. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Always, their ranks were made up of humorless civilians culled from the lowest species of southerner that could plug in an electric clipper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she was ten she no longer believed in a mother made up by Mo, she believed in one who had simply gone away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Speed was everything if she was going to make up for the last four days in limbo. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Dude, in a week it will blow over, and Aimee Hall will make up a new story about someone else. You know it.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The barricade is made up of all the junk pulled from every neighborhood garage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A Tupac song on the radio makes up for our silence. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They were already mad at him and would just think he was making up another story. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And I’ve already decided that I’m going to make up with her no matter what. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s no skin off my nose,” she said calmly, “but seems like your boy’s old enough to make up his own mind. How old is he?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had dreamed her own death a half-dozen different ways, as though her mind were making up a list of choices. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She makes up for it by allowing one wish. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

That was the signal she and James had agreed on when they made up their secret language earlier that day. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The coffee yogurt and getting a glimpse of old mom made up for a lot. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

This was the first new ceremony to be made up since the coming of the two new Egyptians, and the first real ceremony they’d actually taken part in. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Emma was worth it; so, as his daughter Henrietta wrote much later, he “made up his mind to give up all his natural taste for tidiness.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The atomists, for example, believed that the universe is made up of little particles called atoms, which are indivisible and eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Shay’s tried hard to make up for chickening out that first time, and for giving you directions when she promised me she wouldn’t,” he said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

During my first twenty or so years in prison, I accumulated very few possessions, but in the last few years I had amassed enough property — mainly books and papers — to make up for previous decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their stories, the same stories that had flashed through Sierra just a few nights before, still lived with them, made up the fabric of who they were. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, Jenny and Bill made up for any neglect on the part of the big boys a hundred times or more. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of them ate it with ice cream, and then Zorya Vechernyaya made everyone go out of the sitting room, and made up a very fine-looking bed on the sofa for Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind was made up: “If I ask for one thing and they don’t give it to me, I don’t play.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had not only made up her mind to marry Adam but she had so decided before he had asked her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had promised to school me in how to beat the barbershops’ three- and four-dollar price by making up congo- lene, and then conking ourselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, I tear open the bedding package and make up the bottom bunk, saving the other set of sheets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I made up my mind I’m not gonna worry about it. What for?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad made up the next day, and by late afternoon Mom was cutting Dad’s hair in the living room of the apartment we’d rented in Blythe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I agree that William was telling all of us — you most of all — that his mind is made up. Whether you like it or not, Kit, William is going to come courting.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It's easier to make up stories than it is to write them down. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“But from now on I’m going to have a very good reason before I make up my mind about anything. You can lose too much time jumping to Conclusions.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, Isaac wasn't made up. He was just a girl. I mean, that girl Maura is Isaac." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In order to make up for missing Friday, I decide to tell Embryo about Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They’ve made up their minds, and arguing with them will only make my punishment worse. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was the kind of generous fellow that Arthur needed, and Lancelot tried to make up for the trouble which he had caused by getting him a seat at the Table. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Male citizens of age, who were entitled and expected to vote in the general assembly, made up no more than a quarter of the total adult population. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

With one eye on my computer, I pick up the guitar, start making up words, the tune not far behind. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You do not come by words like this easily; they cannot just be made up from scratch. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d make up a great excuse, but honesty’s the best policy. Mark made me go up to the stream and we ... you know.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It would totally make up for Babbage poaching her book if this was, in fact, for Book Scavenger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The short sofa cramped her so much that she had to make up sleep in study hall at school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meg stopped there, remembering all of a sudden that she hadn’t made up her mind, that she had told ‘her John’ to go away, and that he might be overhearing her inconsistent remarks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a short bunk made up with a wool blanket to starboard; Abel ran his flashlight across it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

How could he know that this old man had invented him, made him up out of paper and ink, made up his face, his knife, his evil nature? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bed in the far corner is made up for me, if you can call it that. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes you and I fight, but then we make up,” I said to him hopefully. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My dad makes up lots of crazy blues songs. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to go and talk to him,” said Harry, making up his mind. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"He would do whatever was right," he said . . . ringingly, to make up for his hesitation. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I say, then, that the armies with which a prince defends his state are made up of his own troops, or mercenaries, or auxiliaries, or of mixed troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had a garish print made up of dying heroes, horrible tortures, and lions eating slaves in the Colosseum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The crying of the pups, telling me they were hungry, made up my mind for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind I was going to help Link get a doctor to come to see her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only my mother, who had in the meantime recovered somewhat, maintained her interest in me, urging me to study hard and make up for squandered time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as the sun went down, they suddenly made up their minds and headed for the trees at the edge of the grassland. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was making up stories, narratives, that explained and organized the things that happened to her. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would then make up a story about the chosen shopper’s secret purpose. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then his eyes sped to each of the three adult wolves that made up his pack and finally to the five pups who were sleeping in a fuzzy mass near the den entrance. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I lacked in experience, I made up for with heart and determination. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a rule at Lark Creek, more important than anything Mr. Turner made up and fussed about. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her father jumped down from his horse, shook her until she came to, and shouted every insult known to man plus others he made up in the heat of the moment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each ward has about five hundred people, and roughly ten wards make up a stake, which has a president. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t talk to him for weeks after he started going out with me! But I suppose she wants to make up with him now he’s all interesting...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In no time, both the twins will try to find him on social media and stalk him—even if I’ve made up a name and he’s an imaginary boyfriend. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The forest was largely made up of pines and spruce, with stands of some low brush smeared here and there and thick grass and some other kind of very small brush all over. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she’s been workin’ real hard to make up for the past, and she really wants to share your birthday with you.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took two quarters and made up a Pointless Coin Trick. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Other points of interest included Sunshine Cemetery, the FISHto’s, and the many other things, mundane and strange, that made up Logan County. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One day, however, right before he left, Papá made up a particularly ominous riddle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bestiaries do not contain, as a rule, totally novel creatures of the imagination made up of parts that we have never seen before. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look past his eyes, it’s a single room, the bed’s made up, stripped down, military. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had no organization whatsoever, but they made up for it with enthusiasm. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I think Grandpa makes up phony excuses for her not being around. This is a dangerous place. He has lied about other things. I get the feeling he’s trying to protect us from the truth.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He thought, there are waves making up, and that was a nautical way to think, and he did not know why he’d think that way now but he did. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The official muttered under his breath and finally seemed to make up his mind. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Dede didn’t make up that memory game the night of the arrests. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, Foaly. I’m still running red hot. And I’ll make up for my age with a really big gun. Now get a pod ready. I’m leaving on the next flare.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I think it’s their way of making up for not taking me with them. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t make up to me with a dern sugar lump. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It is going to be driven by groups and individuals, but of a much more diverse background than those twelve scientists who made up Andreessen’s world when he created Mosaic. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

My team was made up largely of women and minorities, including several who came from immigrant families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then after you have made up your mind about the one you want to take, you protect yourself by saying you aren’t going far. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to make up my mind quickly; I was faced with a matter of principle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s not just the matter of the woman to be made up. There’s the Justices to be paid off.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbit had elaborate scrollwork making up its middle, and bells hung off its feet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was so pleased with their response to a joke I made up that I told them one I had thought of the day Ham Knapp and Mike Froelich had attacked Julian's book bag. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hoisted herself up on the table next to me so casually that I had to remind myself that this was no boy made up to resemble a girl, but the actual thing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Just make up a name for him,” I suggested. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a polka, sometimes a Highland Fling and sometimes a special dance that she made up out of her own head. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t even going anywhere today, but she’d made up her face and fixed her hair nicely because our father was coming—to talk about money. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But to make up for that irremediable power, which was exasperating even for him, he had a cordiality that won the immediate confidence of others and a stupendous capacity for work. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And my uncle likes the stories I'm making up. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

If you don't like these ones, you can make up your own. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Galen had claimed that the hand of a healthy doctor was the perfect instrument for judging hot and cold, wet and dry—the four qualities that made up the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

By the time the last bell rings, I make up my mind. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He stood very upright, as if that would make up for the difference. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Harold Morowitz has calculated what it would cost to put together the correct molecular constituents that make up a human being by buying the molecules from chemical supply houses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind to let the guide do everything first and I would watch him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yon minister could never make up his mind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that time I had made up my mind. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he looked back up at Mom, he seemed to have made up his mind. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cased sausage hung from a wire beside the binnacle; the cot was neatly made up. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The higher version the boys sing is made up of identical notes to the men’s, but at a higher register; so there is a fixed, natural distance between the two identical lines of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some argued that because the ANC was a mass organization made up mainly of ordinary workers, the leadership should come from those same ranks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no use trying to talk him out of anything once he’d made up his mind. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The silence wrapped around her like a quilt, a silence made up of trees growing and corn ripening, of the bright sky glowing and the distant water following its tides. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not what he made up his mind to be. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing no one about, I made up my mind to wander the town for a short time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

More than one captain made up his mind then and there that his “cobble” or his “mule,” as they term the different classes of boats, would remain in the harbour till the storm had passed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll sing a song that I made up all by myself and when I’m done I get to ask you one question and you have to answer and cross your heart you’ll tell the truth.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Since the buyer couldn’t know whose corn they were purchasing, the Chicago Board of Trade made up a category called number 2 field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“OK. Earrings and bracelets are good for making up,” Shorty says. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had the alphabet all made up, they could memorize it and use it to write secret messages—at school and everyplace. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore did not speak for a moment; he looked as though he was trying to make up his mind about something. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I aim to work overtime tonight to make up for it.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They make up all our tissues —muscle, bone, blood—which in turn make up our organs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He even made up his own tales about “Henry the Whale.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He made up for a lack of formal training with an intuitive gift and a keen eye. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boat didn’t give them an extra minute to make up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The movie sucked, but making out with Frankie more than made up for it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His carrot orange face had a broad bridge and a pink nose, and it was made up with brazen flair. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew how they could make up the last bit of money. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a cloud in the sky to dream about or make up stories about, but Will dreamed anyway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Our lessons had started again, and I knew I’d have to make up the practice, plus an additional half hour as punishment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Our world has a remarkable cohesion—a set of elements that make up everything in it. Everything in it. Leaf and beetle, tongue and teeth, iron and water, honey and gold. Azoth is...” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s made up of intricate cartoon drawings, each one instructing people on the proper way to hand wash or the correct way to cough in public. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And that it wasn’t too late, I should start straight away, making up the lost time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he makes up these cockalamie stories to stand my hair on end about being a flying fighter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t any me. I’m you. Don’t make up a separate me.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t possess a good enough arm, and no amount of work was going to make up for that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Moody—they would never have the chance to make up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that we were going to follow that advice. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was cold, distant; I knew that she had already made up her mind, that a decision had already been made about me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made up a sad little song about what had happened to him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stone cutters and sculptors finished the moldings and capitals while masons laid the stone slabs that made up the floor. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

As pleased as I was to have my own little skiff, it didn’t make up for his refusal to take me on his boat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before that, people used to just make up spellings—there were no right or wrong ways to spell. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Do you know what my mother would do if she saw me with my whole face made up for school like I was about to go on some kinda fashion photo shoot or something? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

For a man was what he made up his mind to be. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve already made up my mind that I’m going to do this, but I’m kind of enjoying listening to Mrs. Parker beg a little. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One verse of “Come Wash,” a verse I had never heard before, which I suspect she made up on the spot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most afternoons were spent making up routines to songs we’d listen to over and over until I could hear every beat in my head like a pulse. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Pippin felt lonely and made up his mind to speak as the man passed; but he had no need. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then we made up songs in which the forbidden words were repeated over and over, until we arrived at the stream. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The other walls are made up of large windows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

What my little girl lacked in size, she made up in sweetness. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All her children made up their minds to major in science or mathematics. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan resolved that he would make up Kohl’s last words to share with his loved ones. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He had made up fifty yards in the last lap and beaten his personal best time by more than eight seconds. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Evan had made up a lot of stories about Mr. Fink in that tree. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was usually off on Sundays, but if he took off Friday instead, he’d have to be back and work Sunday to make up for it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Again, what they said didn’t sound like anything that a kid would make up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she realized that sometime during the night she had made up her mind: she would not run away today. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if he was just a young kid he had made up all these beautiful pieces for the piano and for the violin and for a band or orchestra too. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That was the signal she and James had agreed on when they made up their secret language earlier that day. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despite wishing that I could just let her go, I wanted to make up with Maxie. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

This part made up for having to wear shorts. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t happy my sisters had made up songs I knew nothing of, but I wasn’t about to poke out my bottom lip and pout. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t make up a lie, Mother. Tell me the truth.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From commercial music—pop and rock to jazz, from folk songs to national songs, religious and holiday songs, and multicultural music—children hear the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that make up their musical environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But when I pointed this out to my mother, she said someone had to make up the timetables. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single eye wasn’t enough to make up for what they did to him and Coach Dub. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sitting on a bed, telling us to make up our minds about the dangers of drugs, was Sonny Bono. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

John Eye looked at us with his brow furrowed, as if he were trying to make up his mind about something, and then he put out his huge paw, palm up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible is made up of the largest canon of any Bible in print in the modern world. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Jacob, I just told you—” “Right, you told me. But I haven’t made up my mind yet.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had full, rouged lips and wide- spaced eyes, heavily made up. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would totally make up for Babbage poaching her book if this was, in fact, for Book Scavenger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We made up a song about diatomaceous earth while we were driving in to the post office today, just because we thought it sounded funny. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“About the— the—” Even now that she had made up her mind, she couldn’t quite bring herself to speak the forbidden word in the very courtyard of the corporation. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I made up things about what they said to each other with those looks. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that I was going to see every movie that came to the fine, air-conditioned theaters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How’d your daddy know it was a girl?” asked Smiley, suspicioning I had made up more of it than I really had. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Washington, in fact, was the only crew that would be made up entirely of under-graduates. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some days Jay will tell me stories that make up for the memories I don’t have. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We’ve just made our way through inconclusive revolutions on the same topic, trying to make up our minds how we feel about nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I’m not going to follow her, although it would be easier than playing On the Track, the game we made up when went berrying or food gathering. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only I pretended my hands made up a dark cave like the one me, Mong and Rondell went in by the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And if she could prove it—if she could catch him this time—it would more than make up for the failure of letting him go. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She says a lot of people just make up degrees to put by their names. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘I do. I made up my mind months ago, and I haven’t changed it.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just something I made up in my head, or a bad dream. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Lying in bed at night, I made up elaborate stories to bring Linda alive in my sleep. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave Poulsson the basic chemistry: a molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m going crazy, like Ellie after her exile, making up stories to feel better about myself. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She suspected he made up many of them; the rhymes were crooked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

From the ground floor, which in both buildings is known as the flats, you can look up and see how each structure is made up of two almost separate components. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hand keeps flashing, urging me to make up my mind. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Want to join us?” said a skinny little kid who was making up pills. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like Mom said, people who love each other can fight and make up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had only marginally more experience with cake than Sarai did, so this was one of the things they made up between them “however they liked.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After a while, he crawled back in an effort to make up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wall brought to my mind the bleeding slabs of meat Rosaleen used to cook, the gashes she made up and down them, stuffing them with pieces of wild, bitter garlic. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was still down at the church, making up his treasurer’s report, so it was just Mama and me out there on the veranda in the dark, trying to get cool. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She knew it would mean battles for her and for me, but she had made up her mind. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He said, ‘I’m not frightened of much,’ Hooper paused, looking into his face, trying to make up his mind if this was the truth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She learned that his teammates would sometimes slack off, knowing that Kanue would step in to make up for their lack of effort. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It's the secret alphabet we made up as children, to communicate without Du Barry and our mamans knowing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So she watched her mother’s face and the face of the men when they opened the pantry door and made up her own mind. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But it is in other respects exactly like Ptolemy’s: it is made up of a series of spheres, nested one within the other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A crowd is gathering, mostly made up of displaced Benzini Brothers roustabouts. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They used to make up stories all the time. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We fashioned low-cut, tight costumes and elaborately made up our faces. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was only making up ground in inches, and he was still at least eight lengths behind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most pollsters agree that people who identify themselves as white evangelical Christians make up about a quarter of the population, just as they have for decades. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of his friends were for the Communists, some were against, but my father had made up his mind not to take sides. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry made up his mind in a split second. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I was discharged and returned to Los Angeles, I made up my mind to continue my education. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She had made up her face in a style she thought of as college girl. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So you two made up?” she asked, and winked. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When but two meals remained, she made up her mind to tell Amaroq she wanted a whole shank of caribou. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rice was furious, but we children figured that the mainland schools were too embarrassed to be beaten out by islanders and so made up a rule to save their faces. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading out loud was easier than speaking because we did not have to make up what to say, but I stopped often, and the teacher would think I’d gone quiet again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was me made up that name. Her face was long and horsey. Mine isn’t. I was pretty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Obediently, he quieted and stared in the same direction at the spindly maples that made up their stand of sugar bush. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was made up of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk Nations and was later joined by the Tuscaroras. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before he made up his mind, I had the shadow children cup their hands around their silent mouths. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They had good perimeter shooters, and what they lacked in rebounding, they made up for in fouls and trash talk. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I know you were quite concerned about their reaction when you had all that homework to make up. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thank heaven my audience is not made up of such sobersides. Sander, see that this lad is given instructions in laughing." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the way she made up a song: A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had participated in spreading the truths that had done so much to help the American black man rid himself of the mirage that the white race was made up of “superior” beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kid, next time you make up an alibi, try to make it sound a little less ridiculous.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that this was going to be my summer. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

That is the bedtime story my mother made up for me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some of the coolest kids, like Sage, made up their own words. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was small, only 200 yards long, but the bluffs made up for it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’m looking for books about ciphers or making up codes,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few grunts later and the girl’s lifeless body was dragged out, across the edge of the door and onto one of the stone blocks making up the ground of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Of course leaving meant making up with Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she could walk farther, my mother rambled over the fields and meadows, in a weaving, snaking pattern, as if she could not make up her mind which way to turn. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Today’s collage is made up of words and cutouts from magazines. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I even made up rules for the gang. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been puzzling to me, but it only took Mom about a second to make up her mind. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I feel as if I need to make up a new alphabet to be able to create the words that would summon up the stew of smells out here. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He made up games about it and absorbed the character completely into his daily life: “I’m Dr. Bruce Banner,” he’d say as he saw me eating the last of the bologna and cheese. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sea-foam white lace bloomed from the sweeping neckline, washing upon her breast from the powder-green ocean of silk that made up the dress. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, they are made up of parts that are entirely familiar. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About a rock and a river, and a guy trying to make up his mind.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It just gives her an excuse to make up a story.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He got nice enough to ignore me instead of making up new jokes, and the old ones slowly died. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The family she was staying with gave her to the Russians to save their daughter. The boyfriend was a story she made up to continue on. She won’t really look at the baby yet.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I wanted you to have the money to make up your loss.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Francie made up four tumbled beds and washed a few breakfast dishes and swept the rooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road, finally making up its mind, plummeted down, as if anxious to renew acquaintance with the sparkling blue stream that flowed below. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It almost fully makes up the difference in votes, with the West Coast still to go. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the moment, Oliver was surrounded by his basketball buddies, who signed their own names and made up additional names and addresses to fill up the sheets. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She would buttress her argument with recommendations from Dr. Cuevas, which later, when he was asked point-blank, turned out to have been made up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could make up a new name, but Halmoni says, Do not be foolish. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Over the past few years, since the two of them had made up, they’d spent more time together, and she had learned that her dad had a sappy side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We have enough rumors and hints to have made up a word for the power, but I don’t know of any proven instances of telepathy among us.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was processed behind the locked door, so, when pressed for an explanation, all Maier’s subjects could do was make up what seemed to them the most plausible one. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“How about this? Can you at least meet Mr. Tushman before making up your mind?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We made up many songs on the spot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I wanted to do something good, to make up for being kind of a jerk to Annemarie, even if she didn’t really know it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katharine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my own names for them according to the sound of their cries. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m no one’s grunt. I work for myself. It’s something the Americans called entrepreneurship. There’s an attic down in the Levee, all made up with beds from a boardinghouse that got shuttered.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All forty churches and eleven rectories that make up the diocese give food and money for the effort. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Sticky felt a powerful urge to make up a lie—to protect the Whisperer. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

James decided they should become professional wrestlers, and he made up their names. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were going to do the seventh and eighth grades in one year and were then going to do the ninth grade the next year, making up any work we needed along the way. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Cornflower had a special soft spot for the baby squirrel; she made up a tray for him too. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But when I come home from school the sheets are gone and the bed is made up, and there is nothing more to be seen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

What I see on the outside can’t make up for how I feel on the inside. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now it feels like I’m just making up one of my stories. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Before Reynie could make up his mind how to answer, she slipped out of the room, leaving him to puzzle over her mystifying behavior. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

People who love each other can disagree and fight, but they also forgive and make up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But when they saw themselves alone in the house they succumbed to the delirium of lovers who were making up for lost time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Still playing with baby toys?” he asked, as if to make up for slipping and being nice. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now I have to make up names and dances. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Robbie obviously made up the speech as he went along, including the name of his armadillo. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

This nun had already made up her mind anyway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby ignored me and hummed a few bars from the song she’d been making up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Looks like silver, doesn’t it? You could make up a story about a silver river.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that year—when I was ten—that I wasn't going to sound like another Mexican. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You ran downstairs and demanded of Mrs. Fairfax some occupation: the weekly house accounts to make up, or something of that sort, I think it was. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

December t “I have some very sad news to convey,” Father Mulrooney informed the handful of boys that made up the student body of St. Vincent de Paul Academy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had made up my mind that recording both of my grandparents’ stories was an important project not just for school, but for me and my family. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He smiled widely in return, but his mind was made up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I still hadn’t made up my mind which side I was on in the war, and I didn’t care whether Sam was a Patriot or a Tory or what. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to make up for all the schooling he’d missed while at Green Lake. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever my Farsi failed me, I just made up what the characters were saying to each other with words I could remember. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The kids would spend weeks choreographing the event and making up songs, and I would attend the rehearsals, dreaming of a day when I could be a dancer in the procession. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He brought the bottle into the office, put it on the desk, and went back to make up two cups of coffee. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re grown up, then you can make up your own mind about religion, which has been responsible for a lot of wars and massacres in his opinion, as well as bigotry and intolerance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry, I never change my mind once it’s made up, good-by, take your corpse with you.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know, of course, that I was making up most of what I wrote, pretending to be the all-American daughter my parents wanted me to be. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Pay me back by making up with Lydia. It sucks for me when you guys are mad at each other.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I wished everybody would just make up their minds. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Early each morning she would make up her face. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, she loved the “Hymn to Isis” that Melanie had made up almost by herself, with just a little bit of help from a book of Egyptian poetry. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The LED glowpaint smeared on Nailer’s forehead gave a dim green phosphorescent view of the service ducts that made up his world. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like the other slaves, she made up the words and the melody of most of the songs that she sang, never singing them exactly the same way. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she showed me some pictures and asked me to make up a story about each one. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Katie had made up her mind to marry him—if he asked her—simply because life was incomplete without a man to love her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really liked the girls. It seemed to me there were always beautiful girls involved in drama, and they looked so good onstage when they were all made up.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The small Wyrdmarks made up larger ones, and the larger ones made up even larger ones, until it seemed the entire room meant something she couldn’t possibly understand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hampden had assembled a crack team which—like one of those commando forces in the movies, made up of desperate fugitives, men with freedom to gain and nothing to lose—proved virtually invincible. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hope Brad and Patrick decide to make up and dance in front of the whole school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

What was clear was that he was being taken to a child to make up for the loss of a doll. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He’s the one who drops by classes and looks us over as we take tests and gives out chocolates as if that makes up for it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“No hard feelings—really. But you have to make up your mind fast, Jax, ’cause I got to go.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He didn’t play any of the things he’d learned—just made up one of his own pieces as he went along. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherman made up some handbills to post at the Big Store and the post office. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It all sounds like something a sixth- former would make up.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That way, scythes who glean too little will not be punished, because scythes who have a healthier gleaning appetite will make up for their shortcomings. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My dad has retreated into the garage again, welding and sawing with full-tilt intensity, so I take it that they haven’t quite made up yet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the time she went up to bed her mind was made up. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She flung a mental lifeline to that physical self, and tried to recall the feeling of being in it: all the sensations that made up being alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then again, almost immediately, I saw how Ruth wasn’t to know that—how to Ruth, who didn’t know the first thing about music, this tape might easily make up for the one I’d lost. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like the others, which were made up of a whole bunch of different boxes, each one telling more of the story. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

During the run Brian lost twelve pounds, mostly in fluids, though he drank river water constantly to make up for it, and his hands became infected from bacteria in the water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No way! If anything goes wrong, I’d rather have Holo at the END—that way he can make up for lost time!” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ma couldn’t come because she was making up that day she missed work. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The true electron is hidden in a shroud of particles, made up of the zero-point fluctuations, those particles that constantly pop in and out of existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Getting down to the level of quarks–the particles that make up particles–requires still more: trillions of volts of electricity and the budget of a small Central American nation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It also meant that when Mama got mad at Ophie for making up stories it was because she wasn’t like Ophie and Aunt Rose. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The outer logs that made up the eight walls had holes in them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Other warriors even make up songs about how brave you are. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up for lost time now so fast that soon girls were asking me to dance with them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fried bread, fried eggs, blood sausages, and barley porridge made up the meal, washed down with thin yellow beer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With small green cells called algae, these make up the microscopic plant life of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The interior of his house was always lined with strung skins, hung with lush furs made up into sleeping robes, and red-and-white-point blankets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I go back in the living room, and Ma has my bed made up there on the sofa. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Brantley,” said Miss Peregrine to Bronwyn, “go and make up the fainting couch for Miss Avocet and then fetch a bottle of coca wine and another flask of brandy.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins regarded them steadily looking from one to the other as though she were making up her mind whether she liked them or not. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

When she tried to make up her face as they did, it came off rather badly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, Min seemed to make up his mind about something, and when he spoke again, his voice had lost the sharpest edge of its anger. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Without books in the peach stand, I often passed the time making up poems, but that slow afternoon I didn’t have the patience for rhyming words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Uncle Chester had lacked in niceties—Aunt Ivy would be horrified to find not one doily in the entire room—he’d made up for in reading materials. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Its population had grown to 300,000 citizens made up of different groups. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The wall behind me was made up of a dozen steel drawers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We rode our bikes as if to head over to Cory’s place, but instead we doubled back to make up with Styx. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Can you please yell at me? Yell and scream and maybe throw something. But something soft. And then we can make up. Okay?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid Uncle and I won’t spend time together where I could learn real stories about you, not just make up my own imaginary ones. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I got off school for more funerals than I could shake a stick at, but I always made up my work. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they’d talked about my getting a dog and planned when to go to the shelter, they must have made up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Since the earth is made up mostly of rocks, geology is mostly the study of rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the Atashkadeh lacked in height, it more than made up for in majesty: Five arches, held up by smooth white columns, fronted it, and a Faravahar was carved into the top. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He made up that name just for me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’d made up my mind a long time ago to ask him a few things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It now seemed impossible that Ron and Hermione would make up with each other before the holidays began, but perhaps, somehow, the break would give them time to calm down, think better of their behavior... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A proton or neutron is made up of three quarks, one of each color. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized suddenly, with a stab of fear, that they made up the hunting party. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He has made up a sheet with pictures of the pieces and arrows to show how they move. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

We decided that we should depart from tradition and elect a House Committee made up of these two groups. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And who makes up the Career pack is generally agreed upon before the Games begin. Peeta barely got in with them last year.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For that I am truly sorry. I would make up the ill I have done all of you.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I look out there, and I can’t believe it. Ocean water makes up seventy percent of the earth’s surface, you know.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The other monks never saw his tattoo or heard the story he'd made up about his mother. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Fred was short and thin, but what he lacked in size he made up for in volume. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Actually, if I saw him, I might break down and do something stupid like cry, or make up with him. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there anything going on in his life that would force him to make up symptoms?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The luxury end makes up only 10 percent of the cruise line market now, Mathisen said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As a junior lieutenant I had been in charge of a small unit made up of boys to carry out quick missions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had made up his mind that he would accompany her as far as the Tube station, but suddenly this process of trailing along in the cold seemed pointless and unbearable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to do a little project that I like to call living history. Where we study the different generations that make up our society.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The gravitational force between the sun and the earth is ascribed to the exchange of gravitons between the particles that make up these two bodies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Beth, you shouldn't make up stories," Sansa corrected the younger girl, gently stroking her hair to take the harshness out of her words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Women’s Club made up baskets of food and delivered them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had made up his mind that he would never eat it, even if he were starving. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was carefully made up, heavy mascara on her eyelashes, rouge on the bones of her cheeks, over which the skin was stretched like a rubber glove pulled tight. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily walked from small room to small room, up and down the three levels that made up City Lights. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Powell gives his name as Lewis Payne and makes up an elaborate story, saying that he has come to Mary Surratt’s at her request, to dig a ditch. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Will they make up, or is this the end? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They made up the next day, but my grandparents didn’t ask about our moving again. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Bran and Meera made up names for those who sang the song of earth: Ash and Leaf and Scales, Black Knife and Snowylocks and Coals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She made up a song about isosceles triangles. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

His next assignment was working chemistry boot camp at Velma T.’s house to make up for blowing out the chemistry room windows during science class. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She got to get a scholarship to get into this school she wants to make up in Boston, man.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muslims make up only about 1 percent of the total US population. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"Beth, you shouldn't make up stories," Sansa corrected the younger girl, gently stroking her hair to take the harshness out of her words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I saw there was only one chance, and I made up my mind to take it,” Davis said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed to share the cost, and they made up a menu and a master shopping list. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When urban renewal tore down my parents’ laundry and paved over our slum for a parking lot, I only made up gun and knife fantasies and did nothing useful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. What if the typos themselves were part of a second word, too—made up of only the corrected letters that you wrote. That’s never happened?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But 1 also made up lies to prevent bad things from happening in the future. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That part didn't worry me too much, though, because I knew Mr. Antolini was very smart and that he could make up something to tell her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He said he had gone crazy with hunger and made up his stories just so someone would give him something to eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now he was rested, and he seemed to be making up for lost time. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I have a little money and some food that Lena made up for our journey this morning.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suesetta says, and sits on her bed, which isn’t made up. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each kanji was made up of separate lines, called “strokes,” and a single kanji could have more than thirty strokes—sometimes many more. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed looking at them and making up stories, but I wished I understood what she was reading. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she said to the girl, “I can’t quite make up my mind about this dress.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That game you made up to beat the hell out of your tennis shoes.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had already made up his mind that after a suitable interval—a month, say—he would take the risk of visiting the shop again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Lazlo couldn’t tell how much of the threave lay buried still beneath the sand, but from what he could see, it was made up almost entirely of mouth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I made up the weight difference by loading 600 kilograms of rocks in with my other supplies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize on the way to my room that I haven’t done the three good deeds to make up for lying to my mother about my homework the other day. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered that the big bed Granny and Grandpa shared wasn’t made up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When people were within earshot, they engaged in first- or second-date conversations, making up past histories for themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“William’s father gave him that land three years ago, on his sixteenth birthday, and William said that he would never start to build his house until his mind was made up.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If you have a heterogeneous class make up of many different ethnicities, abilities, races, providing activities validates who they are as people, and sends a message that their voices are valued. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He had evidently been thinking and had his mind made up; for, almost before he looked at the patient, he whispered to me:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When Connor asks to visit me, I make up some dumb excuse and hope he never brings it up again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then the price had gone up, and he found he would have to go over into every one else’s dollar to make up the full amount for May Belle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He says after you make up your mind and take the first step, most of the rest of ’em come pretty easy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She filled it with lucky beans to make up for the lack of proper beads, and hurled it far into the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if she could rescue Nin, if she could get to her in time, maybe that would make up for letting them take her in the first place. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And I have to make up my mind before this call ends. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I hope he knows enough about plowing to make up for what I don’t. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Last in his class at West Point, he makes up for a lack of wisdom with a lusty exuberance. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rich food filled her with elation, but she was too shaken by the presence of the leopard to make up a victory poem. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have not quite made up my mind about the future.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He stops briefly to watch the sparkling bonfire and then at a vendor to purchase a bag of chocolates to make up for his mostly uneaten dinner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She made up her mind to go see about that medicine from Palm Beach. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind I wasn’t going to cry or anything, I made up my mind that no matter how hard they threw me in that snow I was going to get up laughing. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well...now she’s got something else to make up her mind about.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once she realized that, her mind was made up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They might help make up for the lack of a goose or a ham. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So, yeah, at this point I had pretty much made up my mind that track was the dumbest sport ever. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rubin dropped by the apartment one afternoon with all my locker stuff: my textbooks, my loose-leaf book, and all the assignments I would need to make up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe I tried to make up for that by taking her abuse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

These language theorists then make up rules that clarify grammar and spelling and point out the relationships between words. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mom walked off to think, made up her mind, and came back to me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have people made up their minds that it doesn’t matter what the courts decide? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her shelf had to do with a religion she’d made up for herself, a mixture of nature and ancestor worship. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a lie in the sense that the facts were made up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Velma, for instance, one of the four Anne Klein women, said that she picked none of the men and that she made up her mind about each of them right away. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

How can you make up a thing like that? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We made up stories about the other bus riders. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You just make up your mind and it happens. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It doesn't take me long at all to make up my mind. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The stuff I make up is too good. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You still trying to make up your mind?” he said. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We talked about making up a secret language. Want to do that now?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He has made up his mind to go quietly, with dignity and courage. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It means you need to make up your mind if you want change.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The man in this film was in love with both of them and couldn’t make up his mind. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wished she would make up her mind. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The boys took to making up jokes then, saying things you wouldn’t want said about your grandpa’s wife even if you hated her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Emily walked from small room to small room, up and down the three levels that made up City Lights. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She had made up her mind not to speak to them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes moved from the golden registration number at the top of the handle, right down to the perfectly smooth, streamlined birch twigs that made up the tail. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before I could make up my mind, the tallest telkhine said, “Let us see how strong he is. Let us see how long it takes him to burn!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The columns on the tablet are made up of cuneiform script detailing various instruments, including the kinnor, the hand-held harp-like instrument that is alternatively known as a lyre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, you can make up your own mind. What did you think of our Prime Minister?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all alphabetic writing systems, English uses many logograms, such as numerals, $, %, and + : that is, arbitrary signs, not made up of phonetic elements, representing whole words. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seven knew she was right; covens were made up of a mix of all sorts of witches, but she couldn’t imagine Mr. Pepperhorn being classified as virtuous. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Abel and I, we made up. I moved back into the bedroom. It was just one night, and then...I became pregnant. I don’t know how.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lately, I been making up excuses, saying Momma’s keeping me busy with chores, stuff like that. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Almost immediately after dinner, Monsieur. Actually before we left Belgrade. So he did on the previous night. He had directed me to make up the bed while he was at dinner, and I did so.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As stories of the physical abuses that had accompanied the Palmer Raids continued to grow, several investigating committees were formed, including one made up of the nation’s most respected lawyers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Scrimping to make up the balance, Regina sent him off to Oklahoma. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the affected children, known as the “Lost Generation,” never made up the missing grades of education. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe it is loaded, maybe if she shot her head off, everyone would forgive her for having made up the story of the gun. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then we played a game where we made up life stories for the people sitting around us. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Ah no! for my mind is made up!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And whites are still making up their minds, although some want me to be their friend so I can help them with their math! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about it: All these words made up the poems Angel read.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you think the FBI is going to believe some dumb story that a Vermonter made up?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course, I could be wrong. Perhaps thee gods sent you here to test my judgment. But I think... I think you were sent here to make up for the loss of Jason.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This turned out to be unwise in the long run, since each time I missed practice I had to make up the time and pay for it with an extra half hour. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mong had it right all along—even if it was just something he was making up to get us out of the Lighthouse with him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the back of the truck August had gallons of sugar water already made up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I may need civilized company to like you. I’ve made up my mind. It’s off to finishing school with you.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, she would take her turn, picking up where I’d left off, and she’d make up some new part of the story. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The Internal Security Force, made up of internees like the demonstrators, had evaporated in the face of such a mob. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was M. MacQueen alone in his compartment when you went to make up his bed?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am leaving the Shire as soon as ever I can — in fact I have made up my mind now not even to wait a day at Crickhollow, if it can be helped.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We had a list made up with things we needed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what the convent looked like, but he made up a description to entertain the little boy.“Its a castle on a hill,” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mirrors must have been expensive in the old days, so they made up that story to scare us.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Afterward, they made up their beds and ate breakfast. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want a wife to wait on me. For Mercy just to be what she is — I could never do enough to make up for it.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"The way I look at it, there's nothing wrong with making things. Or selling things you make. Right? I made up a story and sold it. You think storytellers are liars?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I made up a lot of nice songs after my bath, one of which I taught to a man who was hiking along the top of the gorge one day. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie had to do two washings free for the girls to make up for it and Francie’s voice lessons were abandoned forever. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Billy’s mother scolding him for making up stories. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But it’s not just a headache I feel, I can see it, like it’s made up of a million colors, all of them blinding. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Moch yelled again, “One length to make up—six hundred meters!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The light moments in prison could not make up for the low ones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we made up the perfect country Minerva keeps planning, I would fit in perfectly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Dorothy made up her mind, no one— not her husband, not her in-laws, not the principal at Moton—would be able to dissuade her from her goal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She stared at me, trying to make up her mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It arrived at Haydapassar only five minutes late, having made up time on the journey. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the legislators had made up their minds. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sean said that there are certain questions you don’t ask, even if the people of Bone Gap wouldn’t stop making up stories. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The crowd seemed to be made up mostly of witches around Mrs. Weasleys age. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It worked almost like the logical arrangements of five squares that made up each piece of his set of pentominoes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Alter a while, as soon as I saw her coming in, I’d start making up a banana split. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I can’t believe kids still make up stories about her.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was given a secret little book known as “The Los Alamos Primer,” made up of copies of the lectures Robert Serber had given the year before. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed the sharp angles that made up her nose and chin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My pulse quickens as I make up an alibi. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And when the mood took me, I whistled or recited poems that I made up on the spot. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tiniest ones made up my brother’s face. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

‘Mack,’ he says, ‘I figure a guy that needs it bad enough to make up a lie to get it, really needs it,’ and he give me the buck. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said nothing, trying to make up my mind if I should run away. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some were made up of meanness, brutality and heartbreak; others were bright and beautiful because of Miss Bernstone and Mr. Morton. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to make up with Helene tonight, not antagonize her further. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And listening to my grandmother telling it, making up bits as she went along about the imaginary Mr. Palmer who was so set on exercising the underside of children’s forearms, I had to laugh again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time Liyana read a Dickinson line she really liked, she’d close her eyes and make up a line of her own inside her head. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I made up a story for Weylin to explain why we were here—and why we were broke. He offered me a job.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If you live in an unworkable society you can make up one of your own, and this is what the Iks have done. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the stupidest fellow that was ever born; you know that. I couldn’t remember to come back here even after you made up that special lovely rhyme for me.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The overseer S. B. Raby explained,“Rachel had a'fine boy last Sunday. Our crop of negroes will I think make up any deficiencies there may be in the cane crop.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I read a book once about a girl like that—she made up stories all the time to impress people. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the way back up the hall, I chanced to look in Grandpa’s room and saw that the bed in there wasn’t made up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I make up my mind that I have to travel the town tomorrow. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But what finally pushed me to make up my mind was something my dad had told me years before. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Photos getting around isn’t something you just make up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Revenues from Fischer’s guiding business weren’t nearly enough to make up for the loss of Price’s substantial flying income. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the very young children couldn’t make up their minds whether to watch the man circled in blue on the roof or the bits of red flashing around on the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Tang people had just got disgusted and left for points east, south, and north, where you weren’t herded around like a flock of sheep by a shepherd who could not make up his mind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us make up a song together,” I said one day. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But Rush’s mind was made up, and everyone knew what that meant. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Inside, the mother fussed at them—their sloppy clothes; their long, loose hair; their looking tired, too skinny, too made up, and so on. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He’s made up his mind about what he wants, and what he wants is me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he had sent us the Jackson Five album by special delivery to make up for stealing from us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

About 99 percent of a pill is made up of other stuff that has nothing to do with the medication. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I’ll happily invent a meal and make up a bed on the floor, just to hear the kindness in their stories. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall work very hard tomorrow to make up. You will see.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few Greeks, however, such as Democritus, held that matter was inherently grainy and that everything was made up of large numbers of various different kinds of atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made up her mind to be off after the doctor with the first glow of day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The boss had just about made up his mind to have him sold, when he got an idea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just thinking . . .” She tries to make up something. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys slept out in the barn accept during the coldest weather, when they made up pallets on the floor in front of the kitchen fireplace. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind to ask to be sent home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear you LEP guys make up your police business just to get a look at some moonlight. That’s what I hear.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘The aim was poor, maybe, because he could not make up his mind which he hated more, you or Saruman,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Several clauses are joined or embedded in a sentence; several sentences make up a paragraph; several paragraphs make up a section, several sections a chapter, several chapters a book. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was only when he asked me if I had reached a decision, that I actually made up my mind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in perfect form from the outset, and there was no way I could make up for my weak showing at the start of the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

African Americans made up 56 percent of the inmate population, Hispanics comprised another 32 percent, and whites around 10 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lemoncello snapped his fingers and the fully inflated video screen displayed an equation made up of pictures: Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Momma didn’t talk to them any more, not even to scold, or sing, or make up games the way she used to. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You owe me five hundred dollars,” I go, making up a number. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But even those hundred-dollar pants suits she brought in for me to wear can’t make up for the hurt I feel when she slaps me with them mean words of hers. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Just someone I made up,” I say, pushing another wet squirrel tail of her hair off my neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I made up some excuse about it being a bad weekend for my family. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Gell-Mann’s theory was that all hadrons were made up of still smaller, even more fundamental particles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It will make up for a small dowry—in this case.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here he filled his thermos bottle with hot coffee, had them make up six ham sandwiches and bought two quarts of beer for breakfast. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made up his mind that he would never use that button again. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He made up his mind that he would move to Salt Lake City and attend Salt Lake Community College. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to miss a week of school because I’ll be there from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., but I’ll be able to make up part of the work while I’m in there. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But that didn't make up for the fact that she was currently ruining my precious teen years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As I said that, I wondered if he’d think I was lying because of how he made up a story about seeing his cousins right after Ben died. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I would make up the stories, he would tell a few people, then together we would watch them spread like a fire in a field. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This is an ugly old woman they seem to have made up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And at any rate, even if he had carried an extra pound here or there, the roughly three pounds devoted to his brain would have more than made up for it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wait for us to make up our minds and grabbed me first. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of trying to convince Amá that I need to go out and talk to people I’m not related to, I often make up homework assignments. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But then we made up a new game in which the object was to keep a stranger talking on the phone as long as possible. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was larger than most, made of sturdy wood and bamboo, with thick thatch made from palm leaves making up the roof. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, while he made up a possessions ticket, he fed down the time of arrest and other information to the dispatcher, who typed it out rapidly, one-finger style. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I make up the beds, store the clothes, and return the backpacks, I’ve got nothing to do but observe the last rule. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He gave me a slight nod, and I assumed I was free to make up my own lies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘Less us all make up now before us goes. I can’t stand this here fighting between us. Less us not ever quarrel no more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then right away she started making up new rules and trying to take control of me and Grandma and the house. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How this school is made up of the best and the brightest in the state. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We made up a special knock so she would know it was me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Why would you make up a thing like that? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh? And what gossip is that? That we’re on a first-name basis? Scandalous. It seems like the tabloids are already making up their own gossip about me, anyway.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the a cappella kids are there, making up funny schoop-schoop songs about the punch. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Everything else I can make up along the way.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I also told them the story behind the Moneekrom family I had made up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“We used to make up stories,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Lola was not listening and seemed to have made up her mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I walked out of the gym, my mind made up. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a rumor someone made up that was passed down since Jesus’s time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Word spread, and men for miles around made up a posse. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed a long time ago that they had sat making up those predictions together, and Hermione had turned up and appointed them secretary and treasurer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Every one of them is made up of a huge number of stars, hundreds of times bigger and hotter than our own sun. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"She made up her so-called wasting disease, I call that crazy. Nothing was wrong with her legs until the explosion in the Chinese restaurant." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Warren told his colored man to make up a bed for Johnny in the surgery. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins gazed up and down the street as if deep in thought, and then, suddenly making up her mind, she snapped: “Fishmonger!” and turned the perambulator in at the shop next to the Butcher’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...this drawing. It is perfect, but it’s just a drawing, you know? A picture. It’s made up. Like you said, a story.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the crew was made up of able seamen accustomed to the harsh weather of the North Sea, two doctors, a handful of university scientists, officers, a carpenter, and a cook. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"If you say so, Miss Lillie,” said Dad, who had already made up his mind she was going to be Mrs. Gilbreth, "I’ll read it.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long, rectangular sheets made up the other stack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was going to have to give up something big—big enough to make up for what he’d done. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Still I could not make up my mind to do so. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be all right. We’ll make up some search parties and find them in no time.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It might be made up of rhythm only, or of a melody line with chordal accompaniment, or many interweaving melodies. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I knew from the first moment I told a girl my arms had burned off in a fire, I had found a great hobby: making up stories. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I feel sure I made up that feeling with the kiss on the forehead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I waited while he made up his mind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But Grandmother did nothing, either because she hadn’t understood or because she, too, couldn’t make up her mind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss examined each of the houses as he walked, trying to remember who lived in them, trying to remember the stories he used to make up with his father. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mother and I would make up songs together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anne and Ernestine had made up their minds to explain the situation to them, when destiny delivered the psychologist into our hands, lock, stock and moustache. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw you and made up my mind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I shall make up my mind whether or not to cast this boy down from Olympus.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

What Odessa lacked, and one look informed the most charitable eye that it lacked a fantastic amount, the speculators from Ohio would make up for on the strength of their own imagination. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the finale—it won’t make up for missing the Spec, but it’s something. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

By dinner they seemed to have made up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It looked like light made liquid — or like wind made solid — Harry couldn’t make up his mind. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Well, just as we code talkers made up names for things, so, too, did the ordinary fighting men create nicknames for just about everything. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only place outside of church you could find out anything and everything about the hood, even though most of it was made up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mom’s made up my bed, and now she pulls me to it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once the entire mess is ready, Katherine and I eat it greedily, the past week of good eating not quite able to make up for the weeks of starvation. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t make up the statistics,” she tells Pilar. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want us to make up. I want us to be friends again, like we used to be.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

All authority to pass laws and raise money was held by a variety of committees made up of members of the town council. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The bed had been made up with crisp white sheets, as if she were a cherished houseguest. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To make up the lack, she did secret studying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon,” he said, malevolently, “you is just made up your mind to serve Satan all your days.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I have not made up my mind,” he said, “I came away in rather a hurry.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, we had to make up our own. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to just make up some imaginary boy of my dreams and sing about him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I knew my mother made up anything to warn me, to help me avoid some unknown danger. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe “the afterlife” is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A perfect cube made up of smaller cubes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“No. What if the typos themselves were part of a second word, too—made up of only the corrected letters that you wrote. That’s never happened?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You two made up, have you?” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

To Bates, that “no credit” was the equivalent of a zero, because Gary never had made up the homework by the time he was transferred out of the class. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class was made up of all white, wealthy kids who couldn’t have more stress than planning what they were going to wear the next day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He shifted a little on the seat, for he was not able to make up his mind, he was just a little anxious, just a little unsure. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I saw him too much. A great landowner. And arrogant. What he lacked in fighting skills he made up for in bragging, drinking, and killing. In that order.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I make up that number, which is not something I usually do. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d make up a story about why he wanted to know, and someone would tell him, because Joseph wanted to see Jupiter so badly, they would be able to see he loved her. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

People made up jokes and anecdotes about him that were the talk of the town. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yet we must needs make up our minds without his aid. Why cannot we decide, and so help Frodo? Let us call him back and then vote! I should vote for Minas Tirith.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s a nickname I made up. Can you guess why?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’d already made up my mind that we weren’t going to crack them open and eat them on the spot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was usually a foolproof comeback, making up in scorn what it lacked in originality, but on this occasion it backfired. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge shouted to make up for the fact that she’d missed it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe she doesn't think making breakfast makes up for intruding into their family home for two weeks. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He did not know that she had seen her own destiny, that she had summoned him with the power of her thought, and that she had already made up her mind to marry without love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matter on the earth is made up mainly of protons and neutrons, which in turn are made up of quarks. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our bodies are made up of many rhythms—the heart, respiratory system, our body’s energy, digestive systems etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt made up his mind. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were all made up, earrings and bracelets jangling. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"It was my idea. Besides, the same people who made up the son rule probably made up the oldest child rule. Let's break both at the same time. Come on, we have to hurry." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And after all, didn’t somebody just make up the word pinna, too?” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to whistle, but nothing happened, so she sang out loud instead, a song her father had made up for her when she was a little baby and which had always made her laugh. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s a risk I’m just gone have to take. I already made up my mind. Either put it in or pull my part out altogether.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The chief and the council of elders, made up of both men and women, were always chosen for their wisdom and made all the important decisions. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen many examples in his practice, which was made up mostly of working-class African Americans. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You can’t make up for that with an interview, but I had to figure that out for myself. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You see, grandchildren, rules about modern warfare were made up between the nations of the world before World War Two. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps Uncle wanted to make up to us for all the time we had been living out here like this, trying to prove he was wrong about our never being able to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, the campaign began referring to me as “the Closer” for the way I helped make up minds. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They were in good spirits, and Ruth in particular seemed determined to make up for the bad scene earlier on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if there was something he couldn’t recall, he made up for it by cheating. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We even made up a commercial featuring the crispy corn dog. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

One of these rapid, high-note riffs that black boys make up as they go while sweeping, shoveling, or just walking along. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico had made me promise not to tell anybody about his plan until I made up my mind, and the plan was so scary I didn’t mind keeping it a secret. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After staring in wonder at all the changes, he finally made it to his room, where his bed was made up with Pattie's sheets and a fluffy comforter. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a good thing we laughed and made up. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally Mrs. Arable made up her mind she would pay a call on old Doctor Dorian and ask his advice. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“The normal cells which make up our bodies are tiny objects, five thousand of which would fit on the head of a pin,” he said, his voice a bit too loud and stilted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each was so angry with the other that Harry couldn’t see how they’d ever make up. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Yolanda rolls her eyes, and I want to tell her to make up her mind. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe if we had a newspaper for the whole region, people could exchange their ideas and have a chance to make up their own minds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’d make up a reason why I couldn’t go or cancel at the last minute saying I was sick...but not Nadine. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

A few months later, determined to make up for his poor showing, Bobby mailed in his registration to play in the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That you do. You made up a lie and got busted for it. You need to own that.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She’s had several conversations with my counselor about me making up work and returning to school, but I’ve been a complete brick wall about it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And if she didn’t, you could always count on her to make up a few, just to keep things going. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the groups is made up of unemployed toy and light-metal workers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also needed somebody quite experienced to make up for my lack of it, and Irwin's ladies reassured me on this head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But his mind was pretty well made up. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a consequence, during so much time and so many wars waged during the past twenty years, whenever there has been an army made up completely of Italians it has always made a poor showing. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hemoglobin is iron-containing protein that makes up 97 percent of every red blood cell's content, when dry. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

This was a good decision: The first ten was made up of first years and it could not have been plainer that they had hardly ever flown before. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

While I was sitting with my sisters, I made up my mind about Oakland. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawley, the correspondent, seemed ill again and had not made up his mind whether or not to ride today. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is made up of separate poems, often about the same story, but never connected with each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everybody would know they were made up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, what do you expect from a place that’s made up of a bunch of foreigners? They come here and can’t even speak good English.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I found some sheets and made up his bed for him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

These crews—always, in my experience, made up of young black men—were watched over by tough- looking armed COs wearing wide-brimmed hats and leather boots, their pants tucked in at the top. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad said it’s made up of so much steel that by the time they finish painting all the way to the end they have to start right back at the beginning again.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We returned to the battle, and Danny more than made up for his previous silence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I made up too many things in my head. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But, surprisingly, she was happy and had made up a new story. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myers then confessed that he had made up the story because the true killer was none other than the elected sheriff of a nearby county. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Aunt Petunia found a few moldy blankets in the second room and made up a bed for Dudley on the moth-eaten sofa. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And I knew my mother had already made up her mind. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Achilles is faster, so in half a second, he makes up the half foot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, Father feels he’s got to make up for his mistake at the match, doesn’t he?” said Percy. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She could make up a name—she would, too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And a large part of them were made up of times with me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mace found a heap of sacks and with Nettles help stuffed them to make up three mattresses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s like Boy21’s giving me clues by making up stories about outer space. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking: Lee has made up his mind; there’s nothing you can do. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we play two-square and make up our own rules like No Bounce, Around the Back, and Sky Ball. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a game we made up on our way back from Idaho. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then she slides off three wooden panels that make up its roof, and turns it over. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were getting closer to each other in that connected way of theirs, as if trying to make up their minds. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scythe Curie was even more stubborn than Citra, and when her mind was made up, there was no changing it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I had to admit, it wasn’t the worst plan somebody could make up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind then that I was going to leave Suffolk for good. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Love said Pa had gone to the store to make up his order,” said Loma. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So to cheer myself I would often make up ditties. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Between the slats of wood that make up the hull and decks of the ship is foul-smelling black pitch to keep the water out. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Now they say that Master Wingfield and some of the other gentlemen made up those charges. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Harry had a horrible feeling that the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures had had its mind made up for it by Mr. Malfoy. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cooped up in those little suburban houses, the rules were as strict as for Island girls, but there was no island to make up the difference. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Dicey couldn’t make up a new last name, except Smith and nobody would believe that even if it was true. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not somebody I made up but a living, breathing person. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put in ten hours that week, meaning I make up twenty of the dollars I owe him; got one more week to go. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

James pointed to a bookcase raised on knobby feet that made up the arts and crafts section. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We had witnessed a pitiful one-man attempt to make up for some of the abuses the man had seen practiced against the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of chairs for our families make up the next circle. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Cal made arrangements in school, by doing extra and excellent work, to make up for his absences on Monday afternoons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to be made up of nothing but lumps and wrinkles, and it squeaked and groaned every time he moved. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had a bedroll, some flour, some potatoes, and some biscuits already made up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine just going into a courtroom and straight-up making up a story that puts an innocent man on death row? I'm not sure we can trust anything he says.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe Baba is trying to make up for being late, but he won’t stop asking questions. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hispanics made up 47 percent of the student population and blacks and other minorities the remaining 5 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you an’ Lennie could go get her started an’ I’d get a job an’ make up the res’, an’ you could sell eggs an’ stuff like that.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I always hated the name, so I made up my own.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Greek mythology is largely made up of stories about gods and goddesses, but it must not be read as a kind of Greek Bible, an account of the Greek religion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe coming here today, meeting Petey where all these people would make up their own stories about them, was a bad idea. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mami didn’t seem as bothered by his absence and fed us soups, or creamy rice with milk, or hot sancochos made up of whatever leftovers she could fit into the pot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Those names make up what psychologists call our sympathy group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Amazing to think this room made up the whole bookstore in the beginning, isn’t it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was hesitating between the two, unable to make up his mind. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She had on bright red lipstick and blush, and her eyes were made up. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He should never have made up that elaborate story to disguise his search for the cave; somebody might ask him about it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the guy I made up to fall in love with Ellie. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’d been up for close to three days and had taken so much speed that I could practically see the individual atoms pitching in to make up every folding chair. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When their backs were turned, I held my breath and sneaked over to the other group, the one made up of stronger workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Auntie Annie’s food was delicious because she was a professional chef who made up the menus and cooked for the white high schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He must have lied, and I bet for a while he loved the opportunity to have an audience for those stories he was so good at making up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A kiss to make up for the fact that wasn’t there. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was sure he had them mostly wrong and he made up new games and gave them made up names. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And one day Nat will tell me it’s all a crazy game she made up to see if we really loved her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had started out much earlier than usual this morning, thinking to make up for the day wasted yesterday by rain. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope she doesn’t make up that independent mind of hers to grow to like some other fellow when I’m gone away.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind was made up even before he reached them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as Dana spoke those two words—bar mitzvah—I saw a lifeline, a way to make up for what I’d done, even just a little. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I had never informed upon a boy in the public school, and I was waiting for the boy in front of me to come to my aid, lying, making up excuses, anything. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or make up some viable defense for the decisions I’ve made over the last couple of days. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was probably here to apologize and make up with Papa. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Before she could make up her mind which way to go, she heard voices and withdrew behind a column. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I never expected May to be back with us, and now that she’d stopped by, the least I expected of her was that she’d be able to make up her mind. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I could make up the losses in a year, maybe.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he bought me a good present to make up for that. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“The money can be made up out of my share,” Uncle said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing that he could not make up ground at this stage, the jockey changed his game plan, eased up, and settled in to wait. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even started having trouble making up new space stories. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She listened to all I said and informed me that her mind was made up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t approve of the match, but I’ve made up my mind to bear it, and shall not say a word against it,” said Jo solemnly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her that baking a whole roomful of brownies wouldn’t make up for what they’d done. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I couldn't make up a good lie, despite the good job I had been doing lying over the past few days. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Cleopatra contributed money and supplies, as well as 200 of the 800 warships that made up the fleet. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Yet despite such hazards, the bootlegging club continued to grow; new members were added each day, more than making up for those arrested daily. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever they decided the rules of the game were, I made up my mind to play by them,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you made up your mind, my girl?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Seeing it all, seeing the beds and the dressers, all made up and fresh—the sense of normalcy was almost overwhelming. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The bed was softer than anything I had ever lain in, properly made up with linens, two pillows, and a coverlet of deep blue. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The one that you get all those stories about dragons from. Or did you just make up those things you told to my aunt?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll make up the clue using altered poetry, like the character does in Rhyme Schemer!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her face had been hastily made up into a mask of almost clownish flamboyance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grover didn’t sound too enthusiastic, but I got the feeling he was trying to make up for what had happened in St. Louis. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The village gathers, and the young men sing songs they’ve made up themselves—songs praising the elders or their families or the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made up stories about how they’d given birth to monsters in attics. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me the names of all the clouds and made up stories about them. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She had to make up time, not blunder around in the dark. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We made up the rules as we went along—and they kept changing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I told myself I was making up problems. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was standing on a narrow track made up of loose gray pebbles that crunched under his combat boots when he walked. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But Ivy didn’t want to make up stories with Layla anymore. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This time the hom only squeaked, squawked and groaned, it didn’t sound like it was trying to make up any words. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Still, each time, the disapproval made her want to apologize, to make up for it in some way. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Papa confessed that maybe it hadn’t been an Indian cemetery after all; maybe someone had made up that story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d put in extra hours to make up for the time she’d be taking off, working until two or three on the nights she closed and arriving at nine to open the next morning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The universe, he once thought, may well be made up of infinitesimal pieces of string, in thirty-two different colors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nick, on the other hand, wraps his arms around Abby, like he has to make up for the hour spent on opposite sides of a booth. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“The story is made up. But time travel is possible. In theory. I've read some articles about it.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“No, I won’t. I shall tell him I’ve made up my mind, and shall walk out of the room with dignity.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face softened, as if he were trying to make up for his curtness. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company in the little yellow house had not made up for the loss of her family. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They speak English like everybody else but they babble away to one another in a language they made up, Hung sup tea tea sup hung. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m still mad at him for making up the boyfriends thing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“She makes up the rules as she goes,” Luke tells Annabelle. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The narrow strip of sky showing above the houses would stay light for many hours yet—long enough for him to make up his mind whether or not to go to Capricorn’s festivities. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She smiled continually, smiled at everyone, as if to make up for Papa’s solemn courtesies. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sleep while we can. When we get up, I’ll make up my mind what to do.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He was proud that he had made up a new word, and he enjoyed thinking about all the commotion it had stirred up. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could play with some old dolls and broken toys, although we mostly made up our own games and caught dragonflies. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

‘The Ents made up their minds rather quickly, after all, didn’t they?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Sonny’s small,” Coach Tom Morgan told my uncle Clarence at practice one day, “but he makes up for it by being slow.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many are familiar—those that primarily make up the Earth; or those fundamental to life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then her grandmother carried her from town to town, putting her to bed for twenty cents in order to make up the value of the burned house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can double deal with Ice and Bianca if you and her make up,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Are you interested in making pottery? Maybe we could work something out where you get to use the kiln. To make up for the fact I can't pay very much." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Obviously he had made up the rumor himself, and suspected that Holly might have just called him an idiot. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Claudia answered, “A scientist doesn’t make up his mind until he’s examined all the evidence.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A distraught Mareth quickly made up packs of food for the members of the quest. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You may as well face him. Maybe it’ll help you make up your mind, move on from this weird limbo you’re in.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My parents drop me off at Grandma’s, and I leave my bag in the guest room she’s made up for me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She made up a story and told the butcher the bones were for the dog. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What I lack in knitting prowess I am making up for with a quilting needle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sam had long ago made up his mind that, though boats were maybe not as dangerous as he had been brought up to believe, they were far more uncomfortable than even he had imagined. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If Burger King and McDonald’s launch a price war to gain market share, they partly make up in volume what they lose in price. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It looked at them with big, apprehensive eyes and evidently wanted something, but could not make up its mmd. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those words he loved and all those names he made up were in him, but it was as if they had gotten crushed in a Cuisinart. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make up this whole memory of Baba Haji, the vision of him by his mantel, so that I can hold it every day. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to make up his mind. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, newspapers often launched vicious personal attacks, even going so far as to make up entire stories. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Do you have a plan for making up the work you missed last week and studying for finals? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His years at Camp Jupiter seemed made up, like a movie he’d acted in decades before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her head spun and she was dizzy with the impact of all the seeing and all the making up of stories about the toys in the shop windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what I lacked in speed and maneuverability, I made up for in enthusiasm. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘I have made up my mind,’ he said finally. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even though he sometimes made up his own vocabulary, Dad never spoke baby talk to me like my mother did. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Blanca wasn’t allowed to wear jeans but she made up for it by wearing tight, short skirts. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One word brought on another one and pretty soon he made up his mind to spend some of it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I decided to make up a totally new cupcake recipe, so maybe Ariana will sell it at her shop. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The world was made up of two kinds of people—those who were victims and those who victimized. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would find herself going cross-eyed and fuzzy-headed, whispering poetry or making up a story. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I opened my stride early to make up for lost time, and it wasn't long before I caught up to the pack, my beads clicking in time with my heartbeat. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He looked at his son, as if trying to make up his mind. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The tailored grey wool that makes up the back of Mr. A. H—’s suit shifts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Whenever I had my shirt off, he would make up some random comment about his artistic interpretation for the meaning of the scars on my back. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

So, I hear you’ve made up all of your old work. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each thought unit is a separate stage of the total discussion that makes up the passage. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But he makes up for that detail by chucking me a good ten feet across the grass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When these townships were established, Afrikaners, or whites of Dutch ancestry, made up 9 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It’s time-consuming to get there, but the waterfowl are such easy pickings you can make up for lost hunting time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn was surprised that Emma had said that in front of him, instead of making up some comforting lie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He felt that in this way he had made up for the trouble he had caused. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to make up my mind to help when I got a surprise. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheehan said his editors still couldn’t make up their minds whether to run with the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She makes up her mind and as you pass by informs your back that she is daddy’s little angel child. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made up conspiracy theories by the dozens: a banana vendor who sold fruit outside our house was secretly recording Jagu’s behavior. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

De la O was introduced to his platoon, made up of four squads of seven or eight guys each. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And yes, these are all the scents that, until five minutes ago, made up the Fragrance of Possibility but now reek of crushed dreams. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z