make sense

Example Sentences

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In the following days, "martial law" was among the most searched terms on South Korean internet as people tried to make sense of what was happening.

From BBC

In hindsight, he said, it made sense not to risk injury playing another year in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal

People are trying to make sense of their unhappiness, which is leading them to “making a valid connection between their online lives and their overall psychological state of being, which is not good,” Lembke said.

From Los Angeles Times

It makes sense that he would feel that way.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It makes sense to use the building and give it to the police, to the public authorities," he said.

From Barron's