How to Use make (any) sense of in a Sentence

make (any) sense of

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  • So, we are left to make sense of this season, of this ending.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 May 2025
  • These readings can help make sense of the outcome, but they are not streamed.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
  • For a parent at home hearing you and trying to make sense of you.
    / Cbs News, CBS News, 1 June 2025
  • One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
    Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The human brain seems hardwired to make sense of the world through stories.
    Ben Rogers, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Parents of pupils and neighbors of the school struggled to make sense of the event.
    Reuters, NBC news, 11 June 2025
  • Certain khipus, then, require both sight and touch to make sense of them.
    Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 26 May 2025
  • If scientists can’t make sense of diet, what hope is there for the rest of us?
    Tamar Haspel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • Ancient watchers scanned the stars for patterns, a way to make sense of the world.
    Latria Graham, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • And as the early vote count climbs, here are two charts and a map to help make sense of the numbers.
    Joe Murphy, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • That led us on this multi-year journey around the globe trying to make sense of this whole thing.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • But the worst of it has been trying to make sense of why the bullet injured her niece and not her.
    Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • But trying to make sense of that uncertainty is all part of their work.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Now there are a dozen fewer people helping make sense of the music.
    Marc Hogan, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Police were still trying to make sense of it all on Wednesday night.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Companies that are adaptable will be able to make sense of that and survive.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 July 2024
  • His family is trying to make sense of the tragedy, his sister said.
    Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • This kind of thinking helps nobody make sense of the future that’s coming.
    Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But at the same time, it’s expected to make sense of everything.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The issue is the need to make sense of more and more data to separate the signal from the noise.
    Bob Tinker, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The police weren't the only ones trying to make sense of the gruesome murders.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Could the dynamics of chemical bonds, say, help make sense of the ebbs and flows of friendship?
    Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Because of the role that the media plays in how people interpret news and events to make sense of the world.
    Erika Franklin Fowler, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • And Collard and Grimes must try to make sense of a world without Alyssa in it.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • More than 100 members of the film crew were milling about, trying to make sense of the shooting.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • Around her, mourners cried and embraced and prayed and signed their names on crosses in black marker and tried to make sense of it all.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Trying to make sense of the Dexter series finale is the surest path to madness.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • At first, Parini is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepressible Borges.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Kids Are Growing Up finds Laroi beginning to make sense of bits and pieces of it all.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • As the single survivor of a plane crash, twelve-year-old Edward will spend the rest of his life trying to make sense of the tragedy that spared him.
    Ben Brooks july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025

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