Sentence examples for a spot of making from inspiring English sources

For anyone who enjoys a spot of making – or even those who don't – the fact that craft is having something of a revival will not come as news.

We should put on a little make-up to honour the specific dignity that we have within ourselves, but I'm never putting a spot of make-up on for a man again.

(And once we seemed to have a spot of trouble making it back out into the main channel; the propeller, perhaps, had become fouled in the shallows).

Barrings can often be freak flashes of behavior mixed with a spot of overindulgence, making you perhaps wilder than usual.

Mark Haddon's second book, A Spot of Bother, made it clear he was becoming a master of the excruciating family set-piece.

Then Steven Lopez, a lanky 6-foot-2 fighter with a blinding smile, looked up to the stands where his family stood and caught the gaze of his sister, who came within one spot of making the American team.

But, after a hard day's graft, Hannah and Anthony get to sit back and do a spot of birdwatching...which makes all that hard work worthwhile.

Whether he's plummeting into a frozen river while ice skating, being stung by a swarm of bees, swanning offstage as a Hedda Gabler who finds her prop gun carries real bullets, or merely succumbing to a spot of poison, Mr. Mays makes the most of the last moments of the phalanx of British aristocrats he so nimbly portrays.

It says something about the hold Robinson has over his audience that he can do a spot of life-admin and make it political theatre, but the moment pretty well distilled what was going on here: an attempt by Robinson to marry his street-based politics with a formal political party.

Or even indulging in a spot of dad dancing and making everyone laugh.

The meter for this purpose has an optical system that covers measurement of a spot of about one degree, making it extremely useful on exterior locations.