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!

  • Like that story, this one comes replete with a cloak-and-dagger fantasy in which the truth-seeking journalist (in this case the author of the X-Files Encyclopedia ) faces danger from shadowy conspirators for attempting to expose the truth.

  • In the following days, General Suharto, one of the most senior surviving commanders, isolated the conspirators and effectively seized power.

  • For another, while the vast conspiracy Mahathir envisaged was a figment of his imagination (I know the supposed conspirators, and they aren't that smart), a few hedge funds really did engage in concerted manipulation of Hong Kong's markets in the summer of 1998.

  • 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.


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