making out

present participle of make out
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of making out Because of this warmth in the Southwest, this also creates a drier than usual season, with precipitation expected to be 50-74% lower than usual, making out-of-season wildfires possible, according to AccuWeather. Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025 Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025 Patrick took it surprisingly well, because Kacie kept making out with him and confirming that her choice had nothing to do with her feelings for him. Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025 The two were caught passionately making out at the 2019 ACM Awards by the CBS cameras. Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025 Whether through canny critique or open wist, shows about making out-of-fashion things can offer us space to predict, resist, and elegize our way through a dark and muddy cultural moment. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025 Slade then reveals the alleged existence of a tape that includes not just the song but the sounds of Tamra and an unnamed ’90s pop star in the studio making out, having forgotten that the tape was running. Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025 Hugo even snaps a shot of them making out on their break. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025 Home planetariums are often dome or round-shaped and offer more than just lasers making out to be stars on a wall and they can definitely be used as STEM and learning tools. Alexander Cox, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for making out
Verb
  • In some ways, coping with those contrasting styles should be nigh-on impossible.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The virtual event is intended to give participants emotional support, new coping skills and encouragement.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Minnesota went into the bye week knowing how pressing this concern was.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no question that the younger generation has brought their own approach to office life—prioritizing mental health, flexible scheduling, and work-life balance—and are even getting fired for not knowing how to act workplace-appropriate.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trapped at sea On both page and screen, Carrie, the woman pretending to be Anne, lures Laura to the ship’s hold and traps her there.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Amina blows her mom a kiss and then flops down in her crib, pretending to be asleep.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Specifically, Larsson was searching for dentalium shells—the long, tubular shells deriving from dentaliums, a type of marine mollusk.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In the years since, Wickelgren, Kass and others have reframed a host of other enumerative problems using motivic homotopy theory, deriving the relevant quadratic forms in various number systems.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In addition to being a stickler for city ordinances, Rader was known to participate heavily in outside activities like leading his son’s Cub Scout group and doing administrative tasks at the Christ Lutheran Church.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer will be available as part of free animation sample project teaming Unreal Engine and Agora Studios to produce free animation sample project, allowing animators to see what other animates are doing.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For executives rallying employees around strategy or transformation, understanding these perceptions is critical.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The findings mark a crucial advance in understanding how human life begins, and how it might be repaired.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Despite Schneider saying ahead of the game, Yesavage was a real option, the manager confirmed Saturday the rookie righty was never going to appear in the deciding fourth contest.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • With how charming the patterns are, deciding on just one can be just as hard as deciding on your china pattern for your wedding registry.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Though historians have called for further research before making claims, the proposal of a script rooted in sign language might open the chance to explore a new way of deciphering Mayan art and show the ancient civilization to be even more sophisticated and efficient than scholars even knew.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Now, a team of international astronomers has succeeded in deciphering the gravitational wave signal, GW190412, to determine more about the collision and the resulting event that sent an infant black hole hurtling through space.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Making out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/making%20out. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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