How to Use make a meal (out) of in a Sentence

make a meal (out) of

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• Will Dorothy have to make a meal of Emma to save her own skin?
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• Roasting sticks and s'mores provided, bring your own hot dogs and make a meal of it.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2024
• Lonomia young are juicy little grubs, just the sort that small birds and mammals might make a meal out of.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
• What’s your plan if a dog goes after a cat or another dog or a cat tries to make a meal out of a bird?
  — Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Keaton and Bowen make a meal of their pleasurably silly good cop/bad cop routine.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2022
• To make a meal of it, layer on top of chitranna with yogurt raita or plain yogurt and achaar.
  — Chitra Agrawal, Bon Appétit, 16 Aug. 2020
• The open country is prime hunting ground for hawks that wait atop saguaros, ready to make a meal of any reptile, small mammal or bird that shows itself.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2021
• When an infected waterbird dies, a raptor may make a meal of it and become infected in the process.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
• Portis could initiate more hand-off actions, call his own number, or seek smaller opponents to make a meal of in the post.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Could some cicadas have be carrying a disease or parasite that was infecting the birds unlucky enough to make a meal of them?
  — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2021
• People can make a meal out of the dips and the nutritionally questionable sticks and chips surrounding them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Like a gardener’s guardian angel, Texas spiny lizards can spot garden insects from their perches up high and scurry down to make a meal of those pests.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• As in the Stevie Nicks-Tom Petty song, someone’s always about to make a meal of some bright-eyed kid.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2022
• Fans of awkward comedy will make a meal out of watching Stath attempt to turn each apartment’s worst features into selling points.
  — Wired, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• And the human butcher wasn’t the only individual who attempted to make a meal of this particular leg bone.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Most of these clips, on my feed, at least, turned out to be ones in which Harris seemed to make a meal of the Vice-President, eying him and grinning like a cat with its corpse.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2020
• Ostensibly pencilled into a fourth-line role, Sherwood will likely get an opportunity to play up the lineup, as Lafferty and Di Giuseppe did at times this past season, and might have the offensive pop to make a meal of that sort of opportunity.
  — Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 4 July 2024