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

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Even writing about him in the past tense doesn’t make sense. —Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024

But your brain recognizes the pattern and tries to make sense of it, which leads to hearing noises that aren’t actually there. —Jennifer Billock, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2024

Then your terror would make sense and be restricted to that limited situation. —George Makari, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024