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
Besides, when it came to the point, one felt too sorry for Nevill Tyson to make up one's mind to the worst.
From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by Sinclair, May
To do something requires that one shall make up one's mind what to do, and that's such devilish hard work.
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester
It is difficult to make up one's mind whether it would, on the whole, be more desirable to see Canning at the Exchequer or in the Foreign Office.
From Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
The flesh of the penguin is black and leathery, with a strong fishy taste, and one must be very hungry to make up one's mind to eat it.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Franchere, Gabriel
