in the making
In the process of developing or growing, being made, as in The editor believed this election signified history in the making. This term is frequently used to describe the course of events, as in the example. [Mid-1600s]
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How to use in the making in a sentence
ROME, Italy — The competition among Mafiosi-in-the-making can get pretty tough in Sicily.
One of them, it seems, may not walk away from this five-years-in-the-making battle.
‘Damages’ Premiere: The Creators on That Twist, Julian Assange & The Final Season | Jace Lacob | July 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat on earth possessed the network to host this asterisk-in-the making?
We would then go across the road to the Culinary Institute, where cooks-in-the-making would strut their stuff.
And St. George will probably stroll in with the Alpine glow of a sermon-in-the-making still lighting up his eyes.
The Guests Of Hercules | C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
The author found a good example of folklore-in-the-making in the game usually known as "Run, Sheep, Run!"
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium | Jessie H. BancroftAnd then, too, the book-in-the-making had grown in that room.
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed | Edna FerberAll the citizens-in-the-making are closely interested in politics.
The New North | Agnes Deans Cameron
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