How to Use make it up to (someone) in a Sentence

make it up to (someone)

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• But, who knows, maybe this case will make it up to the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve the split amongst the circuit.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Feel free to make it up to two days in advance; the flavors will meld as the salsa rests in the fridge.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• To make it up to his sister, Jack offers to let Jill stay through Hanukkah.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
• Martin is calling on the the academy to make it up to him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• This season has eight or nine episodes left to, hopefully, make it up to her.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Whatever is decided, the Jets have to make it up to their fans.
  — Dennis Waszak Jr., courant.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Showers will then briefly make it up to Napa, Santa Rosa and Petaluma.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
• Kyrgios was quick to make it up to the young fan, jogging off the court and retrieving a spare racket from his bag.
  — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• She’s really got to make it up to Geralt and Ciri — or rather, prove that she can be trusted.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Boats that run too deep to make it up to the higher reaches of the Rhine must now stop to offload some coal and continue on with a lighter load.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Madonna regrets the inconvenience to fans and hopes to make it up to those markets in the future.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2023
• But after the 4-day weekend at Busch Stadium, Bob Castellini might have a chance to make it up to the faithful.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
• And of course, after cutting his tour short, Santa wanted to make it up to the townspeople.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2021
• Dad’s bum dealt with a lot this quarantine due to toilet paper shortages, but this easy-to-install bidet will make it up to him.
  — Braelyn Wood, Health.com, 11 June 2020
• After the elimination begins, Benja is the first to make it up to the well and easily dumps his bucket.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• After a video went viral last week of a grown man grabbing a ball away from the young fan, a softball player named Avery, the team and Meneses made sure to make it up to her.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
• An Ohio teen missed her homecoming dance after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor, so a group of caregivers went out of their way to make it up to her.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• Unfortunately, the head of the PTA cancels the prom instead, leaving Emma with having to try to find a way to go and still make it up to herself and everyone else.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 11 Dec. 2020
• Phoebe sadly learns that her dead Christmas trees go into the chopper, and Ross accidentally breaks a Girl Scout's leg and is forced to sell the cookies himself to make it up to her.
  — Eric Todisco, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022
• The film follows loving mom, Paulette, who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• Barry is haphazardly trying to make it up to Cousineau, even after killing his acting teacher’s girlfriend.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 May 2022
• When Beethoven’s actual (read: estimated) birthday came and went in mid-December, the global classical community tried its hardest to make it up to the birthday boy.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
• Temperatures will only make it up to the mid- to upper 70s this afternoon, in combination with lower humidity levels.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024