make up one's mind
Example Sentences
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You may see a failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would it be well, and could one make up one's mind to confine, or drive them all away at once?
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
I feel that I ought to have done so, long ago; but you know, one can't always make up one's mind to be quite frank, and tell a painful story.
From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
In a busy life one would make up one's mind as well as one could, and act.
From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher
If one wants to live in the London of the present day one must make up one’s mind to accept the fait accompli with as good a grace as possible.
From When William Came by Saki
