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
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
One does not have much time to make up one's mind when flying through the air from a high trapeze.
From Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank by Barnum, Vance
One has to sample several glasses of each before one can definitely make up one's mind as to which is the best.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)
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
