make sense

phrase

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

Recent Examples on the Web

People crowded the entrance as if waiting for their boarding group to be called, which didn’t make sense to me — there were no overhead bins to claim! — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 July 2026

The gods were there only as a way for people to make sense of the senseless. — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

When knowledge has a much shorter shelf life, waiting months to produce polished training doesn't make sense. — Panos Siozos, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday that Anthropic’s limits on requests that users submit to the startup’s high-end Fable artificial intelligence model don’t make sense. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 July 2026

Rhymes for make sense

• antisense
• commonsense
• effulgence
• frankincense
• ninepence
• nondefense
• recommence
• recompence
• recompense
• cense
• dense
• fence