make sense

Example Sentences

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“I will never be able to make sense of this loss but I am thankful that we had found a way to become friends.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

"I was shocked. It didn't make sense; I'd inherited it, the title was legally mine, I was willing to pay the fees and I was over 55."

From BBC • May 21, 2026

A subfield of AI, computer vision gives machines the ability to make sense of visual information like photos and videos.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

“Sometimes we have expert lecturers come. … We just mishmash everything together until it makes sense. Or if it doesn’t make sense, that’s fine too.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Theo, whose evasions still bother me, whose secrets don’t make sense to me, whose secrets I didn’t even imagine existed.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse