How to Use making in a Sentence

making

noun
  • Plus Paul is near or at the top of the shot-making list.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The College Board has said that the course had been a decade in the making.
    — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Think of this process as the candy making of the cheese world.
    — Asha Loupy, Bon Appétit, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The sausage-making of how insulin is priced is not for the faint of heart.
    — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As of this morning, Nicole has passed and the SLS—18 years in the making—has flown.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the movies in this slate are in the making stage or planning stage.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Check out the cold brew that was seven years in the making.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The cause of the worker shortfall has been years in the making, Popp said.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • It's been more than a year in the making and has seen plenty of ups and downs.
    — Alan Fram, ajc, 1 Aug. 2022
  • This is the story of a group of stars in the making, rap squad Coast Contra.
    — Armon Sadler, Billboard, 28 June 2022
  • The making of a quarterback is still a work in progress.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Behind the scenes, the journey to coming out had been longer in the making.
    — Charlotte Triggs, PEOPLE.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • And not just the piper, but everyone involved in the making of a show.
    — Bob Verini, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The makings for the next big crazy movie double feature were there.
    — Lillian Rizzo, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Now, Tyler has shared more details about the recording of the song and making of the music video.
    — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
  • There’s so much about this project and the making of it, for everyone.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Their big day was about a year in the making after Yaraghi popped the question in June 2021.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The Thorns’ search for a new coach was months in the making and already had reached the final stages by the time LeBlanc was hired.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2021
  • His triumph marked the passing of a torch nearly a decade in the making.
    — Miho Inada, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • So this is a good test for us in terms of our on-the-ball decision making.
    — The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
  • To be a fly on the wall during the making of this album would have been something.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Well, [our keyboardist] Rob Collins died in a car crash during the making of that.
    — Annie Zaleski, SPIN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • And this was a case that -- entirely of his own making.
    — CBS News, 18 June 2023
  • Tank Bigbsy is a star in the making and the defense remains one of the best in the country.
    — C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The making of movies was part of the art from its earliest days, as in this quartet of short films.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The band detailed the challenging making of the album to Rolling Stone a few years ago.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
  • And very little of that making had been done by Granduciel and his bandmates in the same room at the same time.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The documentary has been in the making for more than five years.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Both are excellent but are very different in the glass due to wine making style.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Project Linus blanket making to benefit children needing comfort during urgent response efforts added color to tabletops and smiles to volunteers.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025

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