make sense

Example Sentences

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Flags flew everywhere and the officials huddled to make sense of it.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a reporter, one of the fun challenges is to distill tens of thousands of interview words into a story that makes sense.

From Los Angeles Times

"Once you know where the stable points are, the rest of the system starts to make sense."

From Science Daily

This helps the empathizer make sense of things, but it sounds more like victimization and a savior complex than empathy.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Religion may provide some way of making sense of the world, some sense of identity in relation to others, that can't easily be replaced by other forms of socialization," Oostrom said.

From Science Daily