makings's Usage Examples:

Pat had the makings of the songs in dribs and drabs and as he put it at the time, ‘I just needed to get organized’.

a drop-in-centre, whether Corbet was home or not, where the makings for cuppas and biscuits were always on hand: following this article Corbet, and the.

delegate representative of the Bosnian court, to escort Prince Stjepan"s matchmakings from the Hungarian King.

In a torchy number called 'The Makings,' about how Alphine's life has given her the makings of a jazz legend, her pure high notes descend to earthy growls in a flash, and you've got to believe her when she sings, 'Anything I wails/hits ears like honey.

Horton initially told chairman Peter Swales that we have the makings, the backbone of a really good squad and that he was satisfied in not making many additions if it meant keeping hold of the existing squad; he cancelled a pre-arranged sale of Steve Lomas to Preston North End.

] At some point, an editor suggested that she had the makings of a collection, so she stacked her columns with past articles she liked (a report from Hawaii, the best of some self-help columns she'd churned out while a junior editor at Vogue), set them in a canny order with a three-paragraph introduction, and sent them off.

used to flood by the Dnieper river there were Kyiv city"s pasture and haymakings.

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Vital was his responsibility for the extensive merrymakings of the Saxon court at Warsaw.

magazine reviewer Elysa Gardner praised the song, saying that it "has the makings of a classic, with a stately chorus and shining verses that tie the flesh.

specified set of other relations, called the faciens, the ingredients, or the makings.

whole subgenre of comic poems set at fairs, country dances and similar merrymakings, and narrated by detached and amused observers, in which horseplay, practical.

Synonyms:

exaggerate, do, overdo,

Antonyms:

unsoundness, insurability, uninsurability, unsuitability, unsuitableness,