make the grade
Example Sentences
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But the band’s early attempts to make the grade had fallen flat on its face.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025
Antinisca is looking ready to go, but it's not clear whether Beatrice will make the grade.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023
The class’s first video to make the grade showed scenes from campus edited together.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023
Some historians speculated he failed to make the grade at the academy.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023
Each train, in order to make the grade and the blockade against it, was straining the cylinders.
From Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers by Various
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