What is "making up"

Usage examples of "making up".

Jerry's been making up some of his lost schooling during these past few years.

He liked to think of the villagers, inspired by such reading, making up parties of a Sunday afternoon to look for fossils and flint arrow-heads.

Receiving permission to assist her in making up the breakfast bouquet, I followed her into the room from which she had emerged.

She had some extra visits from the housekeeper, and her maid was rather hurried in making up a new dress for her.

He'd seen giving her whatever she'd desired as a way of making up for her missing out on having Papa.

Bronson's making up to Harmon, and Harmon thinks Falkenberg's dangerous.

As a result, the data transfer rate was slow, almost as slow as the rate by which the data making up the original maps had been transferred.

In that case, if the 95 percent who are fools breed like rabbits, they will destroy civilization in a generation or so, not so much because they are fools but tbrough~all the ills that will beset us through an impossible overpopulation, regardless of the IQ of those making up the crowds.

Expert compression gives most of these stories the weight of full-length life histories, so that we have a series of novel-like stories making up the bulk of a collection that itself resembles a novel.

Gustible's entire mind and life history, and embarrassed him very deeply by making up an opera concerning his recent divorce.

She liked watching the children - seemingly thousands of them - scrambling and running, and climbing up and around and through the network of motile Trees, in their element, making up games, laughing and shrieking, always running, gasping and out of breath with the excitement of it all.

Isaac the Jew also seemed to have vanished, and with him the hope of certain sums of money, making up the subsidy for which Prince John had contracted with that Israelite and his brethren.

Simon could no longer use this useless survey of the land as an excuse for not making up his mind.