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
• 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
• 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
• Their big day was about a year in the making after Yaraghi popped the question in June 2021.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• For the four young men, bread-making starts at 7 a.m. and goes until 8 p.m., with small breaks in between.
  — Shefali Rafiq, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2022
• The announcement on Thursday had been months in the making.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• The 3rd-down scrambles for 1st downs, his wise decision-making, the big throws to Boyd.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 21 Dec. 2021
• To reiterate, that time was a decade-plus in the making.
  — Max Bell, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2022
• Yet the memification of finance had been in the making for a while.
  — Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired, 29 Dec. 2021
• Though, Campbell was sure to note that the babies weren't the only ones crying during the making of the film!
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Picking veggies from the property’s garden, gathering eggs from the chicken house, and caring for the animals allow kids to get their hands dirty at this fun hotel, while crafts such as jewelry and soap making inspire creativity.
  — Gina Kramer, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025