How to Use make it up in a Sentence

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• So then we're forced to figure all this out and make it up ourselves.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
• And the singer may or may not make it up there in time after a Sunday concert in Brazil.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
• The inverter was struggling, and the TesTen couldn’t make it up the first sandy hill climb.
  — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• This chili improves in flavor after resting a day; make it up to two days ahead for gatherings.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
• Krispy Kreme wants to make it up to you for its problems with online orders earlier this month.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
• Why would a sophomore majoring in neuroscience at Duke make it up?
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
• Note that there is no oven in the kitchen, and the host says a four-wheel-drive vehicle is required to make it up the steep gravel road.
  — Abigail Bailey, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
• Madonna regrets the inconvenience to fans and hopes to make it up to those markets in the future.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2023
• But like the rickety rental car trying to make it up a hill, stones keep kicking up into the underbelly.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2021
• And of course, after cutting his tour short, Santa wanted to make it up to the townspeople.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2021
• These penniless boys and men who make it up the ladder of American commerce do so through pluck and hard work.
  — Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
• Showers will then briefly make it up to Napa, Santa Rosa and Petaluma.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
• Schools that had a snow day in January may have to make it up on President's Day.
  — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Feb. 2026
• Her daughter, Edie Syta, and her husband tried to reach her mother but could barely make it up their street.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• The teams are scheduled to make it up in a split doubleheader on Saturday, but more snow was in the forecast.
  — Wire Reports, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• Determined to make it up to Miss Biscuit, Turba had a brilliant idea.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
• But the property was so overgrown that their sedan couldn’t make it up the driveway, as though nature were guarding the family’s secrets.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Unfortunately, Carrie can’t make it up the steps without the help of an umbrella turned cane.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• Cancel clearly, with apology, without excuse, and with a detailed plan to make it up to the other person or people.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2026
• After the elimination begins, Benja is the first to make it up to the well and easily dumps his bucket.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• The claims here are that the tweaks improve airflow by up to 35% and also make it up to 15% quieter than previous models.
  — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 17 Mar. 2026
• In his driveway, Idris showed another spot where the family had felled a tree to allow his mother, who can’t make it up the ladder, to squeeze through a fence.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The ambulance, an older electric vehicle, couldn’t make it up the hill on Nampaugh Road outside their home.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• Initially, Reekon wanted to price it at $99 and while the margins would’ve been slim, the company expected to be able to make it up in volume, Reed said.
  — Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
• My oldest son wants a television in his room, which Santa probably won’t be delivering this year, but Kris Kringle and friends will have to make it up to him somehow.
  — Sugey Palomares, Parents, 20 Dec. 2025
• After ratting out Lance for smoking weed to create a distraction (poor Lance), Harrison does make it up to the penthouse floor, only to immediately be discovered by Charley.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• Those hoping to make it up to the Southern California mountains to enjoy the fresh snow are advised to take advantage of Wednesday afternoon’s window of calm weather to make the trip, weather service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld said.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026