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
It is difficult to make up one's mind whether it would, on the whole, be more desirable to see Canning at the Exchequer or in the Foreign Office.
From Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
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
In the morning, over the Times, it was extremely difficult to make up one's mind.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
What's of significance is sweet, however mistaken; one could make up one's mind to what's insignificant even.
From Fathers and Children by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
