How to Use making in a Sentence
making
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The College Board has said that the course had been a decade in the making.
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Janelle Griffith,
NBC News,
23 Oct. 2022
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Think of this process as the candy making of the cheese world.
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Asha Loupy,
Bon Appétit,
4 Jan. 2023
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The sausage-making of how insulin is priced is not for the faint of heart.
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Danielle Ofri,
STAT,
20 Jan. 2023
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As of this morning, Nicole has passed and the SLS—18 years in the making—has flown.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
16 Nov. 2022
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Most of the movies in this slate are in the making stage or planning stage.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2022
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The cause of the worker shortfall has been years in the making, Popp said.
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Alex Demarban,
Anchorage Daily News,
4 Aug. 2022
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It's been more than a year in the making and has seen plenty of ups and downs.
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Alan Fram,
ajc,
1 Aug. 2022
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This is the story of a group of stars in the making, rap squad Coast Contra.
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Armon Sadler,
Billboard,
28 June 2022
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The making of a quarterback is still a work in progress.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Aug. 2022
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And not just the piper, but everyone involved in the making of a show.
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Bob Verini,
Variety,
15 Sep. 2022
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The makings for the next big crazy movie double feature were there.
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Lillian Rizzo,
NBC News,
31 Aug. 2023
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Now, Tyler has shared more details about the recording of the song and making of the music video.
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Carita Rizzo,
Rolling Stone,
28 Nov. 2023
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Their big day was about a year in the making after Yaraghi popped the question in June 2021.
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Emily Strohm,
Peoplemag,
29 Sep. 2022
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So this is a good test for us in terms of our on-the-ball decision making.
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The Enquirer,
5 May 2023
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To be a fly on the wall during the making of this album would have been something.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
30 Dec. 2022
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Well, [our keyboardist] Rob Collins died in a car crash during the making of that.
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Annie Zaleski,
SPIN,
20 Sep. 2022
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And this was a case that -- entirely of his own making.
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CBS News,
18 June 2023
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The making of movies was part of the art from its earliest days, as in this quartet of short films.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2023
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For the four young men, bread-making starts at 7 a.m. and goes until 8 p.m., with small breaks in between.
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Shefali Rafiq,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 May 2022
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The announcement on Thursday had been months in the making.
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New York Times,
30 June 2022
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To reiterate, that time was a decade-plus in the making.
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Max Bell,
SPIN,
3 Oct. 2022
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Though, Campbell was sure to note that the babies weren't the only ones crying during the making of the film!
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Skyler Caruso,
Peoplemag,
19 Nov. 2022
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The debut of the Space Launch System rocket has been years — and billions of dollars — in the making.
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Tribune News Service,
oregonlive,
29 Aug. 2022
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The former is a SweeTart of a look at the making of a TV comedy.
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Matthew Gilbert,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 Jan. 2023
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Try your hand at sushi or stick to classics like pasta and pie-making.
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Andrea Crowley,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Oct. 2022
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The defense in the second half was bad enough that maybe no amount of shot-making could have saved the Musketeers.
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Adam Baum,
The Enquirer,
3 Mar. 2022
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Students go on brewery tours to learn about the science of beer making.
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Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
1 Oct. 2024
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As for the single, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ latest song has fingerprints from the band’s hit-making past.
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Marisa Whitaker,
SPIN,
26 Apr. 2022
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Lambert was theatrical and gregarious and a celebrity of his own making — someone who’d come from nothing and become well-known in the art world, Kilcullen said.
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Tim Stelloh,
NBC News,
4 Nov. 2024
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That is why agile decision making is so critical in business today.
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Swapna Sathyan,
Forbes,
5 Nov. 2024
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