How to Use make (any) sense of in a Sentence

make (any) sense of

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  • One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
    — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Ancient watchers scanned the stars for patterns, a way to make sense of the world.
    — Latria Graham, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The human brain seems hardwired to make sense of the world through stories.
    — Ben Rogers, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2023
  • More than 100 members of the film crew were milling about, trying to make sense of the shooting.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • These readings can help make sense of the outcome, but they are not streamed.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
  • But the worst of it has been trying to make sense of why the bullet injured her niece and not her.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The issue is the need to make sense of more and more data to separate the signal from the noise.
    — Bob Tinker, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • If scientists can’t make sense of diet, what hope is there for the rest of us?
    — Tamar Haspel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • Silva, meanwhile, tried to make sense of the killing Friday.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • That led us on this multi-year journey around the globe trying to make sense of this whole thing.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • Kids Are Growing Up finds Laroi beginning to make sense of bits and pieces of it all.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Dodd has spent the last year trying to make sense of how her son could die while trying to have fun with his loved ones.
    — Carlos Suarez, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • At first, Parini is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepressible Borges.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
  • My brain was trying to make sense of what was happening.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But at the same time, it’s expected to make sense of everything.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
  • This kind of thinking helps nobody make sense of the future that’s coming.
    — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Now there are a dozen fewer people helping make sense of the music.
    — Marc Hogan, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Companies that are adaptable will be able to make sense of that and survive.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 July 2024
  • Scientists are still struggling to make sense of the data.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • But trying to make sense of that uncertainty is all part of their work.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Around her, mourners cried and embraced and prayed and signed their names on crosses in black marker and tried to make sense of it all.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • And like past seasons, pretty much everyone is stressed out and trying to make sense of the world.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Politely passing on a chance to help the public make sense of a story that still doesn’t add up, Ohtani bowed and slipped out of the room.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • They were stunned and struggling to make sense of the violence that claimed the life of someone whose calling was rooted in peace and love.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Lacy, who struggles to make friends her own age, tries to make sense of human connection.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • That our minds are capable of conjuring images that help us, at the end, make sense of our lives.
    — Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • What are the forces that make sense of the churning sequences, and to what place does the writer of note deliver his audience?
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Like, there’s a little person inside your head who’s looking out through your eyes, trying to make sense of the world.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • But rather than returning a plain list of links, SearchGPT tries to organize and make sense of them.
    — Kylie Robison, The Verge, 25 July 2024
  • Filmed in South Florida, the movie takes place primarily in the space of the film set itself where a small group of actors and crew confront the history of the writer, stage scenes from her life, and try to make sense of it.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024

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