makin's
Example Sentences
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Inside of two minutes she's hustled little Hadley into his things, and out they sails to her carriage, leavin' the makin's of a first-class fam'ly row all prepared.
From Torchy by George Brehm
I ain’t got the makin’s in me of even a store-mussed angel.
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
I did think for a minute that ye had the makin’s of a man, but I apologize.”
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
I had the makin's of a good many cyclones in my system those days.
From Happy Hawkins by Robert Alexander Wason
Each one could choose one dish he wanted cooked and it was cooked, even if we had to send to Montgomery Ward and Company for the makin's.
From I Married a Ranger by Dama Margaret Smith
