How to Use make much of in a Sentence
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It's not made much of a difference, with two more crashes this week alone.
—Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
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But even if the beef is sold for a lower price, that won’t make much of a difference at grocery stores.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
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Whether their complaints have made much of a difference, however, is hard to determine.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2026
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Thomas also worked with Murphy and the rest of the team to make much of the series period-accurate.
—Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
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Neither the return home nor the reunion with old friends made much of a difference for the Dodgers on Tuesday night.
—Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 2 Sep. 2026
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Appropriately, Cruz didn't make much of an off-screen connection with Bardem, who was then 23.
—Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2026
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Development and wildfires have destroyed swaths of the plants’ habitat, while climate change is threatening to make much of what remains inhospitable.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
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Engling argued the act wouldn't make much of an impact in Indiana, due to the state laws surrounding elections that Indiana already has on the books.
—Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 27 Aug. 2026
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Instead, the film makes much of Reagan trying to get a visa for the sister of Mstislav Rostropovich, a Soviet musical maestro who had defected to the United States.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
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The company has also parted ways with Marriage Story writer-director Noah Baumbach, whose other Netflix projects, like White Noise and Jay Kelly, failed to make much of a splash.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2026
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Set in Palm Springs, California, and seen on Broadway in 2011, the play probes a rich, powerful, troubled and Reagan-esque West Coast political family and makes much of the metaphor of the arid, infertile desert.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
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Instead, Collin makes much of Prussian military aristocrats who feel more disdain than love for Hitler, especially General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, the military commandant of Paris from 1942 to 1944.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
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