How to Use make change in a Sentence

make change

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  • Which is why gamers on the ground are leading the charge to make change.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2022
  • A lot of our calling to this work is not to gain power but to make change.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Here are some ways to make change while observing his legacy.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
  • One of my active hopes is that my work is a fuel for people who desire to make change.
    Emil Wilbekin Shikeith Ian Bradley, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The ideas are evidence that people are thinking about these issues and ways to make change.
    cleveland, 14 May 2022
  • But hopefully folks will walk away a little better, armed and enthused to try to make change.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But passing legislation is only one way to make change.
    Terri Gerstein, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Each one of us, regardless of position or title, holds the power to make change.
    Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Many retailers are just rounding up or down to the nearest 0- or 5-cent mark in their prices to make change.
    Erika Tulfo, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But the night mayor also needs to be able to affect policy and have the budget behind them to make change.
    Emma Silvers, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2022
  • Coakley makes sure that her troop knows how to make change and how to politely speak to customers, even the difficult ones.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But MaMa said the setbacks are part of the cost and told the crowd that in order to make change, there is a cost.
    Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • Anyone trying to make change has to have a multiplicity of tools in their toolbox.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • In our progress roundup, Nepal and Brazil demonstrate how disparate interests can join forces to make change.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2023
  • And our current students, so eager to help make change, can and should be partners in those experiments.
    Marvin Krislov, Fortune, 29 June 2023
  • When the cashier opened the register to make change, the man allegedly pulled out a large kitchen knife and pointed it at him, police said.
    Taylor Hartz, courant.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Once optimistic about the future of life in America, the show now has a stronger desire to make change.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • What does using imagination to make change in the world look like practically?
    Jennifer Chen, SELF, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Her book looks at how the individuals in a family come together to make change.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Brown, who lost a stepfather and a football team member to gun violence, is tired of telling his story to leaders who refuse to make change.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
  • Tell me about the decision to stay in Alabama and try to make change, instead of leaving for another state.
    Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 19 July 2022
  • And the beauty of this country is that every person has the power—small in isolation but much greater in the aggregate—to make change.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
  • At the same time — and admirably — Bradford has maintained a sense of art’s modest capacity to make change in the real world.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Going to Washington and fixing these issues at the source is the best way to make change, McCray said.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Every student goes through an interview process, but if a youth is motivated to make change in their community, they are not turned away.
    James E. Causey, jsonline.com, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The Democratic governor said some people have been fired, others have been jailed and entire funding streams have been cut off in an effort to make change.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
  • People ask often how to make change in a world that seems bought and paid for, in a place where political party is a bigger predictor of outcome than reason or right.
    John Archibald | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Start by inviting employees from all levels of the organization and include at least one leader who’s empowered to make change.
    Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • And by then, the opening for the actually good journalists at CNN to make change will be even narrower.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • In other words, technocracy was a project to make peacetime administration look more like wartime mobilization, to make change at scale.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022

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