make sense
idiom
1
: to have a clear meaning : to be easy to understand
We read the recommendations and thought they made (perfect) sense.
The instructions don't make any sense (at all).
The instructions make no sense (at all).
You're not making much sense (to me).
2
: to be reasonable
It makes sense to leave early to avoid traffic.
It makes little/no sense to continue.
Why would he do such an awful thing? It makes no sense (to me).
Examples of make sense in a Sentence
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Wexler believes some of those changes make sense, including allowing visible tattoos, reweighing the importance of past financial issues and processing applicants’ background checks faster.
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Claudia Lauer, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2024
However, buying points can make sense to save money on flights.
—Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
These small decisions — and the production’s big ones, too — make sense individually.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
After more than three decades in the game, here are middle-aged men grappling with life and trying to make sense of it all — one anthemic chorus and seething guitar solo at a time.
—John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024
Resources include daily virtual presentations in English and Spanish to help workers make sense of unemployment insurance.
—Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
The extra economic capacity helps make sense of those too-strong economic indicators.
—Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
What is remarkable is just how long artists have tried to make sense of the celestial event, and just how much their interpretations have evolved with our own understanding of eclipses.
—Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Another way to look at it is as a long history of Google’s inability to make its products make sense.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024
Claudia Lauer, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2024
However, buying points can make sense to save money on flights.
—Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
These small decisions — and the production’s big ones, too — make sense individually.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
After more than three decades in the game, here are middle-aged men grappling with life and trying to make sense of it all — one anthemic chorus and seething guitar solo at a time.
—John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024
Resources include daily virtual presentations in English and Spanish to help workers make sense of unemployment insurance.
—Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
The extra economic capacity helps make sense of those too-strong economic indicators.
—Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
What is remarkable is just how long artists have tried to make sense of the celestial event, and just how much their interpretations have evolved with our own understanding of eclipses.
—Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Another way to look at it is as a long history of Google’s inability to make its products make sense.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024
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