made-up - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • range: The Center is equipped with extensive computational facilities made-up of a wide range of traditional and state of the art supercomputing systems.

Modifies a noun

  • date: The number of shares of each class held by each member of the company at the made-up date of the annual return.
  • story: Fourthly, the events relating to the birth of Jesus cannot be dismissed as made-up stories based on passages from the Old Testament.
  • language: Furby says its name and then begins to talk in a made-up language called Furbish.
  • word: Be aware, too, of unusual or made-up words, which again may be spoken in unexpected form by a screen reader.
  • story: Non-fiction means all those wonderful books that are not a story - not a made-up story.
  • name: Large quantities of prepay handsets appear on single invoices with made-up customer names at the top of the invoice.

Modifying Another Word

  • heavily: Even on her big day, her fresh face couldn't be farther from the heavily made-up cover girls of bridal magazines.
  • fully: Passengers will arrive in fully made-up cabins with fresh towels and bed linen.
  • obviously: Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Virgin Birth, all those miracles - they are all so obviously made-up.
  • largely: Some archeological testing of the site for the new structure found that it was largely made-up ground of the last century or so.
  • even: I like learning new languages, even made-up ones.
  • not: Walkways - which are not made-up footpaths - increase the chance of trips, slips or falls.

Used with adjective complement

  • sound: Sounds very made-up, but I've been assured by a few people that it's true.
  • look: I don't normally wear make-up but everyone says I should for my wedding day, how can I avoid looking too made-up?

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