make a difference

Example Sentences

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Improving your diet, exercising and losing weight can make a difference in visceral fat levels.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Veteran GOP strategist Rob Stutzman, a top adviser to Whitman during her 2010 campaign, said he didn’t think voters’ primary concern would be Steyer’s self-funding, but the money could make a difference.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

We can make a difference by influencing each other—by not only contributing drops into the bucket, but by showing others that we’re doing so, and, in the process, influencing them to do the same.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

It would take many billions of tons of removals to make a difference to the climate.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

I wanted to make a difference, just a little difference, before I left this lovely world.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate