Sentence examples for make of the place from inspiring English sources

What do they make of the place?

What have the Communists managed to make of the place where I sustained a free and democratic life for the better part of two years?

In winter 1934, Robert Moses, then parks commissioner, brought Gilmore D. Clarke and Aymar Embury II, who were the department's consulting landscape architect and architect, out in his Packard to see what they could make of the place.

Clarke's usual approach is to suggest the physical appearance of the island (without sounding like a travel brochure) and then engage both residents and visitors in conversation to find out what they make of the place, but he isn't wedded to this format.

When the first AOC opened a decade ago, nobody quite knew what to make of the place, a wine bar near the original Farmers Market that seemed to specialize in cured meats, salads and lots of tiny dishes that reflected the flavors of coastal Italy and Provence, but also Spain and North Africa.

We know what the place has made of these people, what they've made of the place through generations.

Yet it is hard to overstate what a mess has been made of the place in recent decades, mostly as a result of successive changes in strategy and especially of ownership.

His book tells not only what Matisse or Berlioz or Chekhov made of the place, but what ordinary people like Mary Burr Hulsizer, a 68-year-old retiree from Newark, encountered there in 1957.

I took a quick look at what had been made of the place, and reassured her that I was not planning to gatecrash their party, but was walking on.

What are we to make of all the places in the Bible that explain that judgment is reserved for God only?

In Hinduism the funeral procession is made to the place of cremation.