Example sentences for: conspirators

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

  • (Reading Fest's book, I was often reminded of the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian in which anti-Roman conspirators of the People's Front of Judaea respond to a new crisis by shouting out, "Right!

  • As far as the Park Police goes, Ruddy argues, they mistakenly rushed to the judgment that Foster's death was a suicide and are concealing the fact that they failed to follow proper police procedures by considering alternatives, such as murder and/or the possibility that Foster died somewhere else and his body was "moved" to Fort Marcy by an unidentified group of secret conspirators.

  • One of my personal favorites in this category is mithridatism the gradual immunization of a person against a poison by administering it over a long period in small, but increasing dosages; it refers to Mithridates IV the Great of Pontus (? 133-65 BC), who, according to Justinian, foiled a conspiracy by just such a method before dispatching the conspirators one day at dinner by dosing the food with poison that had no effect on him.

  • Several commentators think that Jones may win her appeal, though all admit that any trial will occur after Clinton's presidency (Will; Taylor; Charles Krauthammer, Inside Washington ). An upcoming Supreme Court case, which will clarify legal principles in the Jones case, piques the curiosity of a few court-watchers (Taylor; Blankley; Sam Donaldson, This Week ). Gigot ( NewsHour ) thinks Jones' advisers are inept, while Totenberg believes they are more interested in serving right-wing conspirators than her interests.

  • The military conspirators tended to defeat themselves at every turn.


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