Sentence examples for did make up from inspiring English sources

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The new American majority really did make up the majority of voters for the first time, and they helped Clinton win the popular vote.

I did not lie about the names of the tram stations, but I did make up the scene about her coming to school that day.

She did make up the bed and tidy her own little messes in the kitchen or the bathroom, but in general the impulse to take on any wholesale sweep of housecleaning was beyond her.

Young voters did make up a decidedly smaller portion of the electorate this year: 11 percent, down from 18 percent in 2008, when many turned out for the presidential election.

"Our experience of the Soviet Union was of the Red Army, and we knew what whoppers the capitalist press did make up about aspects of Soviet society," she explains.

I did make up for the absence of Gatsby with Nick Carraway's beautifully poignant ruminations on turning 30 (though perhaps I overcompensated for the Gatsby-shaped hole by allowing Leopold Bloom (38), to be trumped by a dissipated Dick Diver).

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As Ms. Silverman does, make up a word you think is needed in the English language.

It does make up for these complaints in numerous ways.

But when schools do make up for lost ground, they get a giant payoff.

Make up some problems to do: Make up some worksheets for them.

If you are awful at doing make up, hire a professional make up artist instead.

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