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

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 a busy life one would make up one's mind as well as one could, and act.

From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher

I feel that I ought to have done so, long ago; but you know, one can't always make up one's mind to be quite frank, and tell a painful story.

From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

But then it's no easy matter to make up one's mind when there are so many, many pictures—and so many, many people....

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various