Sentence examples for make and were from inspiring English sources

They're also extraordinarily easy to make, and were one of the first things I learned.

Senators of both parties had said it was a vote they dreaded having to make and were relieved to be off the hook.

The designer liked to focus on clothes that would cost huge amounts of money to make and were unlikely to ever be worn.

Well that would indeed be a silly argument to make, and were this the only example of unions being on the wrong side of educational reform then that clearly would be the argument I was making.

Thus, "super-senior" claims against subprime mortgages — that is, investments that have first dibs on whatever mortgage payments borrowers make, and were therefore supposed to pay off in full even if a sizable fraction of these borrowers defaulted on their debts — have lost a third of their market value since July.

Certainly, several of the year's best films, including "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Gone Girl," weren't cheap to make and were box-office successes; "American Sniper," another studio film of great artistic merit, could also turn out to be a big hit.

Popcorn is easy to make and is usually inexpensive.

Mr. Clinton has made and is making similar efforts.

They've been made and are ready to install.

Together, we have made, and are making, a tremendous difference.

The decision has been made and is almost always irreversible.