Sentence examples for she made something of from inspiring English sources

Lantz figures she made something of lasting value.

It is high up, but there is still commercial wine grown here – although when I asked somebody in one of the villages what it tasted like, she made something of a face.

"She was hugely successful because [when] she was asked to take on important leadership positions,... she made something of them," Singer continues.

She didn't just survive the significant trauma of her early life; she made something magnificent of that life.

And then she made something neither of us could resist, Alice B. Toklas's Cream Perfect Love.

Together with the steady Samuel Wilson, she made something substantial of Peter Pucci's thin "Episode" (2009), an emotionally strangled duet in which the man is mostly a rooted foil for his flexible partner, who stretches and pretzels her body within the shelter (or is it confines?) of his grip.

She has made something of herself by going away and admittedly compromising herself in a way that her friend hasn't, but at least she isn't still digging up turnips.

She has made something of a speciality of novels and stories in which rusty Gothic weapons are repolished and then employed to open up some pretty modern wounds, finding new and intelligent uses for fantasy.

After all, she has made something of a name for herself what with her range of biscuits (Karlie's Kookies, "a fashionably wholesome cookie line" which is available from New York's Momofuko Milkbar, or online at shopmilkbar.com), and spin-off products such as her "Dream Girl Pie".

Abruptly, however, she then made something of a left turn.

So that her mother could see that she had truly made something of herself.