Example Sentences

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Both?— the party on the business end of whatever Lorraine is scheming, that is an ominous sentence.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2023

He was also thinking about James’s novel “The Aspern Papers,” which is narrated by a man who is scheming to get the correspondence of a famous dead poet.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Yet Hopcroft is scheming to get special permission for a much-reduced cruise before mid-May.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 15, 2020

Among them are Blackett’s feckless, dissolute son, Monty, who is scheming to avoid military service; his daughter, Joan, a human viper; and the Human Condition, an elderly, mangy spaniel with his own preoccupations.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2019

Learning is that which therefore conceals this theft… Learning is scheming words meant to deceive the people and eat gluttonously, and is a great fault.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi