How to Use made-up in a Sentence

made-up

adjective

• Parts would be missing, or made-up.
  — Kevin Brazil, Harpers Magazine, 9 June 2026
• That story was 100 percent insane and made-up, and not a word of it is true.
  — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Feb. 2026
• Perfectly made-up, everything in place.
  — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2026
• And there's not one right way to do it, considering the holiday is made-up and the real thing is just around the corner.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
• And while OpenAI’s defenders could chalk that up to an isolated or even made-up incident, within 24 hours of the GPT-5 launch Altman was doing damage control, seemingly caught of guard by the bad reception.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025