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make sense

vb. 1 (context intransitive idiomatic English) To be sensible, coherent, reasonable. 2 {{context|intransitive|idiomatic|with (l en of)|lang=en}} To decipher or understand.

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make sense

v. be reasonable or logical or comprehensible [syn: add up]

Usage examples of "make sense".

But old Portwanger said you broke the ethertype when you got the gun away from Downing for a minute -- no, that doesn't make sense.

Nettie shook her head - the thoughts were all a little too shapeless to make sense.

Dennis said, half in question as he tried to make sense of Chester's words.

Years later, Julie told me that Varia having an abortion at five, six months wouldn't make sense anyway.

This is the fun part, when big slabs of the puzzle, painstakingly assembled from fragments, suddenly begin to lock together, and the whole thing begins to make sense.

I sit in a slow-moving line of cars, chewing over the day's events, trying to make sense of it all.

You been holding back something that would make sense of what’.