CONSPIRE in a Sentence

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One fact alone outwardly proclaimed the change they were all conspiring to ignore; and that was the non-appearance of Ned Silverton.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSPIRE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conspire
 v.  make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Chief among the causes which led the Pazzi to conspire against the Medici, was the law passed by the latter depriving them of the inheritance of Giovanni Bonromei.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
2  Another most powerful motive to conspire against a prince is the desire men feel to free their country from a usurper.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
3  So that if conspiracy against a single ruler be imprudent and dangerous, to conspire against two, is in the last degree fool-hardy and desperate.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
4  For the one discouraged informers and gave heart to those who were disposed to conspire, the other prepared an easy road to his own death, or rather was prime mover in a conspiracy against himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
5  His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
6  Oh, as to that, Monseigneur, it is true," said Athos; "we do conspire, as your Eminence might have seen the other morning.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 51 OFFICER
7  Great, as I have said already, are the dangers which men run in conspiring; for at all times they are in peril, whether in contriving, in executing, or after execution.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
8  That they might not lack this also, they fell to conspiring against their prince; but in every instance their conspiracies had the end which their ingratitude deserved.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
9  Certain persons conspiring against Sitalces, king of Thrace, fixed a day for his murder, and assembled at the place appointed, whither the king had already come.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
10  On the other hand, certain citizens of Thebes conspiring to become its tyrants, summoned a Spartan army to their assistance, and usurped the absolute control of the city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
11  There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  One fact alone outwardly proclaimed the change they were all conspiring to ignore; and that was the non-appearance of Ned Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
13  This woman has come back again into England for the purpose of conspiring against my life.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
14  There was Dodge, the lip reader, her semblable, her conspirator, a seeker like her after hidden faces.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
15  His instinct was to regard her as a conspirator against rather than as an antecedent obstacle to Thomasin's happiness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Example Sentence:
1  A group of men were charged to conspire against the duly elected government.
2  Both deny conspiring to cause actual bodily harm.
3  She admitted conspiring with her lover to murder her husband.
4  He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.
5  All six men admitted conspiring to steal cars.
6  There is not a single bit of crime evidence regarding to conspiring with the Russians to hack the Democratic National Committee.
7  That conspirator was accused of conspiracy to murder.
8  The criminals conspired to rob a bank.
9  The two conspired to rob a bank.
10  Events conspired to produce great difficulties for us.
11  Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus united to proscribe all those who had conspired against Julius Caesar.