Example sentences for: scheming

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

  • Bill Paxon a liar last month when he announced that he was quitting his day job (plotting and scheming against the House Republican leadership) to spend more time with his family--toddler Suby and wife Susan Molinari.

  • The characters respond tellingly, either gloating, helping, or scheming.

  • The publication of The Haldeman Diaries a month later, with its reminders of Nixon's scheming, sinister side, confirmed that Watergate would hardly be forgotten soon.

  • But Slate 's Jack Shafer disparages widespread comparisons of Burn Rate to Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker and attacks what he deems Wolff's disingenuousness: "[B]y repeatedly reminding the reader of what a dishonest, scheming little shit he is, he seeks to inflate his credibility."

  • By then, we already know what being a Rockefeller Republican consists of: a mixture of lavish spending, arrogance, ambition, scheming, and pragmatism; a belief in expertise and big projects; and, above all, excitement about the sheer adventure of governing.


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