make up

to reconcile with someone.

• They made up and became friends again.
• I don't think my boyfriend and I will ever make up.
• Now shake hands and make up.
• I made up with her.
• The couple quarreled, but soon made up.
• Mary and John quarreled, but made up after a while.
• Tom and Jane quarreled, but they made up the next morning.

to put on cosmetics.

• She made up her face in 20 minutes.
• Can you wait until I make up my face?
• In about 20 minutes she made up her face.
• My mother made up her face before she went out.

to invent a story, excuse, poem, etc.

• He made up the story.
• He made up that story.
• His story was made up.
• Her story was made up.
• He made up the history.
• Their story was made up.
• He made up the whole story.
• Tom made up the whole story.
• I think she made up that story.
• They made up an unlikely story.
• He made up a story about the dog.
• He made up a story about the king.
• You've made up quite a story there.
• I'm sure that Tom made that story up.
• I am sure that Jim made up that story.
• Tom just made up that story. It's not true.
• The accused made up a false story in the court.
• I'm pretty sure that Tom just made up that story.
• I think you made up that story about the accident.
• Many people did not want to believe that this story was made up.
• I'd made up some story about having to go home to see my sick mother.
• You don't have to make up an excuse if you don't want to go with us.
• He made up an excuse.
• Charles made up a brief speech.
• I didn't make those answers up.
• Tom makes up stories all the time.
• She is good at making up interesting stories.
• Nobody believed Kevin because he always makes up stories.
• He made up a pretext for a fight with me.
• Who made up these rules?
• It's not like we made up the rules.
• You can't just make up the rules as you go along.
• Tom told Mary that she couldn't just make up the rules as she went along.

to compose, to form something.

• Nine players make up a team.
• Presidential candidate Obama's economics team seems to be made up of distinguished neoliberals.
• Fiber-optic cables are made up of tiny glass fibers which are as thin as human hairs.
• A whole is made up of parts.
• The group was made up by Dick.
• A molecule is made up of atoms.
• America is made up of 50 states.
• A chain is made up of many links.
• Human tissue is made up of cells.
• Animal bodies are made up of cells.
• The train is made up of seven cars.
• The group is made up of six members.
• This train is made up of seven cars.
• Our class is made up of 30 students.
• The atmosphere is made up of oxygen.
• The earth is made up of sea and land.
• Japan is made up of volcanic islands.
• The train is made up of fifteen cars.
• My class is made up of forty students.
• Normal sleep is made up of two phases.
• Germany is made up of sixteen Länder.
• The community is made up of individuals.
• The committee is made up of ten members.
• The group was made up of four young men.
• Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen.
• Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen.
• This stool is made up of leather and wood.
• The United States is made up of 50 states.
• The committee is made up of fifteen members.
• The class was made up of seventeen children.
• This class is made up of thirty-five pupils.
• The party is mainly made up of working women.
• The human body is only made up of tiny cells.
• A millennium is made up of a hundred decades.
• The group was made up of teachers and students.
• A state is made up of individuals who compose it.
• The group was made up of six girls and four guys.
• The class was made up of 15 boys and as many girls.
• The rings around Saturn are made up of dust and ice.
• The audience was largely made up of very young children.
• Plato thought that the universe was made up of triangles.
• Uranus' atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium, and methane.
• A molecule of water is made up of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.
• Sixty minutes make an hour, and a minute is made up of sixty seconds.
• Water makes up most of the earth's surface.
• Land and water make up the earth's surface.