make sense
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.14 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "The thing doesn’t make sense to me."
- "Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth."
- "I was in your arms Thinking I belonged there I figured it made sense Building me a fence"
- "Of course you're not coming over / Snap out of it / You're not making any sense"
- "Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification. For Waterloo-Exeter, this could make real sense on a route where the high capital cost of wiring or third rail all the way to Devon would be prohibitive. But what about his vocal support for it on East West Rail, which is effectively a brand new line?"
- "Can you make sense of her handwriting?"