Example sentences for: collusion

How can you use “collusion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.

  • One is given to wonder how manufacturers of other staple consumer products manage to come up with identical packaging (say, 1 pint, 10 fluidounces or 2 pounds 13 ounces) and identical pricing on supermarket shelves without being in collusion; even the most cursory view of college dictionary publishing at once reveals a most extraordinary example of the workings of “market forces”: no publisher wants to be the first to break the $20 barrier; the Indexed edition of the Random House is the first to touch that mystical figure.

  • The Sala de Abencerrajes recalls the aristocratic family of that name, who was accused of disloyalty and collusion with the Christians by Boabdil.

  • It's ugly to watch ER's rather man-like collusion in this process; with her advantages of class and marriage, she couldn't begin to imagine what Hick had sacrificed for her.

  • The real creative story is the collusion between Groening and James L. Brooks, former Mary Tyler Moore Show staffer and creator of flicks such as Broadcast News and Ordinary People . Brooks (and his protégé, Sam Simon) brought with him the story discipline that made The Simpsons such great television.


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