Sentence examples for make instead of from inspiring English sources

But his third-quarter drop was about as easy a catch as a No. 1 NFL receiver will ever make; instead of a first down, Washington was forced to punt.

"You can tell things are going well because people are complaining about how much money they make instead of worrying about whether or not they have a job," said Paul Westphaling, an editor on the news agency's foreign desk in Washington.

I saw you that first day we met, how you agonised over your boy, mute in his pushchair while all the other pre-schoolers made their clever observations about the world; I see how you worry now over his odd way of walking, the animal noises he will sometimes make instead of words.

They can now make — instead of lose — money on a home sale.

We tend to send them out whenever we have an announcement to make instead of trying to align those announcements to a weekly publishing schedule.

As an educator, Arisman encouraged a new generation of illustrators to make art that only they could make, instead of just providing an interchangeable service.

They are made, instead, of high-grade nostalgia.

and "Titanic" as the greatest ever made instead of just the biggest bonanza.

It is a better film than Dogville; in fact it is the film he should have made instead of Dogville.

It is not clear whether Mr. Assange's request at the embassy was made instead of an application to the European court for a last appeal.

So the talk in this crisis is not made instead of action, but in addition to it — and perhaps as a prelude to it.