Example sentences for: conspiring

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

  • Were Albert and his wife secretly Communists, conspiring to keep Reagan out of the party?

  • Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.

  • The defendants were W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, former chief of the FBI's intelligence division, accused of conspiring to violate the civil rights of members of the Weather Underground when they authorized warrantless break-ins of the radicals' homes (the Weatherfolk were suspected of planting bombs in public buildings) in 1972 and 1973.

  • Unable to agree on why Wolf should be embarrassing, pundits have fallen back on the implication that she must be embarrassing, since Gore has been employing her "secretly," "funneling her payments through other consulting firms," and conspiring to "conceal her from the press."

  • A Florida jury found them liable for damages for conspiring to conceal how addictive and harmful cigarettes are.


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