Sentence examples for attempt to make up from inspiring English sources

His recipes feel like an attempt to make up for lost time.

Some of this has been a deliberate attempt to make up for the lower prices on the $1 menu.

Jones's populist books, one senses, are a late attempt to make up for all this squandered time.

Simple and mostly direct, the solo did not attempt to make up for the absence of Mr. Avila's leg.

The speeding behavior, the authors wrote, is typically an attempt to make up the deviation in distance with time, or to stay above slow speeds.

IN THE twilight of George Bush's presidency, the word "surge" has come to mean a belated attempt to make up for past mistakes.

In his attempts to make up for that oversight, Mitt has really been laying it on thick.

The Engineers attempted to make up for the missed extra point but were unsuccessful in a two-point conversion attempt following the touchdown.

While some businesses have been trying to obtain loans to rebuild in the months following the riots, others have been attempting to make up for the lost income.

We were attempting to make up, almost on a week-to-week basis, something that today has become widely known as "cultural studies".

The temple cannot simply raise prices like a department store when energy prices rise, so it has attempted to make up the shortfall at fund-raisers.