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How to use make up for in a sentence

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He scowled, pretending anger to make up for the insane urge to grin absurdly.
Or put another way, it's stealing from tomorrow to make up for the improvident ways of today.
They make up for that by attacking the ball and forcing 19.8 turnovers per game.
Perhaps the vivid hues are supposed to make up for the blandness of what gets served.
Clearly he was saying that, as we seek a color-blind society, we must make up for what we have done to those of color.
Fortunately, the film does offer some stylish action scenes which almost make up for its two-dimensional characters.
I suspected that the local gods, having delivered a lackluster landscape, decided to make up for it by blessing the land with colorful rivers.
He said there would be need to make up for the three weeks that had been lost following the premature closure of the institution.
There isn't a duff track, and while those lyrics are often too clever for their own good, the accompanying tunes usually make up for that.
Heaven knows that black cinema has years of bad caricature to make up for, and I got a good laugh out of the switcheroo.
The Samba-Brazil nut and date cake, Brazilian pecan nut and cocoa parfait make up for the Latin American team's fans.
This council must make up for all the underspending or they will find themselves out at the council elections this year.
So he said no, privately muttering that his team shouldn't have to compromise to make up for the mistakes of others.
In his fury and humiliation at being unhorsed, he turned to meet the one who had brought him down, ready to make up for it.
Granted, we have to do a bit more bookkeeping than before, but the savings more than make up for it.
Does their work and data make up for the numerous impacts of many a well-turned ankle clad in contoured Dior bootees?
Cork gave us an unmerciful hiding in the 2003 final and we'll be hoping to try and make up for that.
He doesn't need to hint at bad-boy nefariousness to make up for shortfalls in the talent department.
As if to make up for the sluggishness in his body, his mind was racing along at double speed.
I'll do my best to pull my socks up, get my act together, and make up for the lost time.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was ever a fierce Anglophobe, and did his best to make up for the deficiencies of his early training.
The rascals had had one backset, but this move seemed likely to more than make up for it.
Most exquisite of sonatas would not to them make up for a game of billiards!
This they were able to make up for by means of the drift indicator, which compensated for the drift.
Charles stood up, prudence and timidity washed away by a burning need to make up for his embarrassment with a grandstand play.
Mouths gaped their very widest to make up for the inaudibility of the cheers.
She took an interest in Laura partly perhaps to make up for the tepidity with which she regarded Selina.
They were objectionably apologetic about it, and they seemed to think NOW we were going to have a 'good time' to make up for it.
The well padded suit encompassed him so gently there was no sense of pressure on his body to make up for the weightlessness.
It took, indeed, trimness of apparel to make up for the plainness of his face.
In such cases an ox will use his tongue more in the prehension of food to make up for the incapacity of the lips.
Somehow, the idea of a revenant Beta curve didn't make up for the basic loss.
You see, he had so many years of being one of the dumps to make up for!
It was as if he must make up for long arrears of hopelessness.
The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxuriance, to make up for the dreary months that had been wasted in barrenness.
To make up for this abortive experiment, he proposed to take her portrait by a scientific process of his own invention.
Marek was always trying to be agreeable, poor fellow, as if he had it on his mind that he must make up for his deficiencies.
I could not refuse, and so you have a little feast at night to make up for the bread-and-milk breakfast.
To make up for his indiscretion, K. suggested a descent to the river.
So he does not and I do, and I have to make up for it by not indulging all too riotously in new clothes, which is no doubt very chastening.
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