make up for lost time

Example Sentences

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In 2024, China removed the tariffs and Penfolds tried to make up for lost time, shipping large quantities of red wine to the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

You can’t make up for lost time in investing, no matter how much money you throw at it later.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

Whether the script is an attempt to make up for lost time or a last-ditch effort at staging a career resurgence, Nora isn’t interested.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

David Warner, making his Hundred debut, was starved of the strike in the powerplay and in trying to make up for lost time holed out off Jordan Clark for just nine.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

I basically run all the way to Eddie’s house to make up for lost time, the investigator’s business card tucked safely in my pocket.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy