When assembling the prototype, the engineer told his team to make haste slowly to prevent costly mistakes.

The new manager tends to make heavy weather of routine tasks, slowing the whole team's progress.

When you arrive, please make yourselves at home and help yourselves to anything in the fridge.

We left early and hope to make good time on the way to the coast.

Before the ball, one would make one's toilet in the small dressing room behind the ballroom.

It's easy to make a pig of oneself at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

In that era, one could make one's hand by hoarding grain and selling it during the famine.

The pilot warned that if we hugged the sandbanks, we would make foul water and risk slowing the ship as the keel stirred up the mud.

The committee criticized the government's creation of make-work jobs that did little to improve the economy.

Rather than boosting productivity, the festival’s staffing turned into a make-work job that cost more to sustain than the short-term economic gains it produced.