How to Use making in a Sentence

making

noun
  • This one has all the makings to be wild.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • The project has been years in the making.
    — Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
  • So it’s been kind of crazy making.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Big, big shot-making by him to do it.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Isn’t this a mess of his own making, though?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • But this has been a change a long time in the making.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • This is a crisis of our own making, too.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The plans in place for the next few weeks have been months and years in the making.
    — Juli McDonald, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • The research has been years in the making.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
  • He is not defined just by shot-making.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Think of this process as the candy making of the cheese world.
    — Asha Loupy, Bon Appétit, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Arch making plays, the defense came up with stops.
    — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The rest are bars where cocktail-making is revered.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • And not that there's anything wrong with fire making.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Pofahl said the changes are more than five years in the making.
    — Emily McLeod, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the movies in this slate are in the making stage or planning stage.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The sausage-making of how insulin is priced is not for the faint of heart.
    — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
  • It's been more than a year in the making and has seen plenty of ups and downs.
    — Alan Fram, ajc, 1 Aug. 2022
  • And part of this, George, is just the sausage-making process at the end.
    — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • His alliance with Moore was years in the making.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 11 May 2026
  • In many ways, this is a problem of X's own making.
    — PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That second coming of age might just have been the making of me.
    — Eleanor Noyce, refinery29.com, 2 July 2021
  • What kind of drugs were involved in the making of this album?
    — Joe Hagan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Art and art-making are so vital to life and to breathing.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 May 2026
  • The problem is the making of a second film isn’t set in stone.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The whole making of the film has been this crazy endeavor.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And who could tell if his destiny was inevitable or of his own making?
    — Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
  • But some of Starmer’s problems are of his own making.
    — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The makings for the next big crazy movie double feature were there.
    — Lillian Rizzo, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Swanson’s comeback had been more than a year in the making.
    — Asli Pelit, New York Times, 17 May 2026

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