286 examples of make-ups in sentences

It seemed incredible, but soon I could not dodge the conclusion that it was a made-up quarrel designed to impress me.

As she prayed, the rowers continued singing their made-up song: "Ma, our beautiful beloved mother, is on board.

Ironing is necessary to smooth body-linen, and made-up articles of delicate texture or gathered into folds.

"Another chapter in the made-up tragedy," he said, "performed with marvellous skill as you can see.

No made-up nest of weed or sand for him!

We started off finally on foot through streets silent as the gravenot a person, not a lamp, not so much as a barking dog, as queer and as creepy as some made-up thing in a theatre.

" "Kitty," said Miss Panney, "I should think she was trying to impose upon you with a made-up story; but after that luncheon I will believe anything she says about her opportunities.

In addition to the foods we have mentioned, many others might be enumerated, more especially the numerous 'made-up' feeding materials now on the market.

A battered old hamper, in which I carry my different character make-ups, stands in my dressing room.

She would never venture to tell me a made-up tale about Marmaduke.

Woolson writes of it, "There is nothing in the fern kingdom which looks so cool and refreshing on a hot day as a mass of this clear-cut, delicately made-up fern.

She looked at them in that humorous, kindly way of hers, looked at their silly, excited, made-up faces with noses sticking out stark, like handles, from a too-heavy application of purplish-white powder.

It was a plunge into novel handicraftfor previously he had been accustomed to made-up ties.

That is nothing but a made-up story about going in there for something she had left.

Those with cotton and made-up dresses sewn with cotton same operation as before mentioned, using half the quantity of stuffs, and working cold throughout.

His boding was made-up of omens, dreams, and such stuff as he most affected to despise, and there fluttered at his heart a presentiment and disgust.

At last he seemed to have made-up his mind to something; and applied himself quietly and diligently to arranging papers, and docketing some and burning others.

Every thing in the Service was solemn to me, except the bishop: he seemed to me a made-up man and a mere pageant.

"I have always feared that when the time came for me to be 'my honest self' instead of a 'made-up daisy'"she smiled wearily as she quoted the childish rhyme"Harry would not be big enough to take it well.

The eyebrows were made-up; it was a simple enough proceeding and made still more simple by the beaded veil.

How did she happen to be made-up in this fashion at this particular time?

Then the beads suggest a carefully prepared plan, and, as I said just now, she can hardly have been made-up when she met us in Kennington Lane.

His present tale is a made-up fable.

In Stratford I was rebuked by the permanent inhabitants for being kind to a little boy in professionally ragged clothing who made me, as he has made hundreds of others, listen to a long, made-up history of Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare, the Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and other thingsthe most hopeless mix!

In a made-up story it would be wrong thus to disappoint the curiosity of the reader, but all this actually happened; I can add or detract nothing.

286 examples of  make-ups  in sentences