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Example sentences for "schemed"

Lexicographically close words:
schemata; schematic; schematically; schematism; scheme; schemer; schemers; schemes; scheming; schen
  1. They not only schemed for great rewards, but for the love of it.

  2. Come right out and say, 'Yes, we schemed to beat you, and we've done it.

  3. Some one had known of Huber's shortage of hay, and had schemed accordingly, aware of Jerkline Jo's eternal willingness to do her best by her patrons, regardless of the strain upon herself.

  4. All the way down to Margate we schemed defences and assailed and fought them as we came back against the sunset.

  5. For that, however, we had schemed a weekend visit to Wales, and a fictitious sprained ankle at the last moment which would justify my absence.

  6. He had so long brooded and thought upon one idea, so planned and schemed to bring about one thing, that a desire for revenge fairly obsessed him.

  7. Similar reasons affect the design of longitudinal girder attachments to cross-girders, which, if intended to support rails, cannot of necessity be schemed to come other than in line.

  8. In all such alterations the detail should be schemed with special care to ensure simplicity in execution, smith's work being rigorously avoided.

  9. Lady Dover, on the other hand, never schemed at all; she walked calmly along a broad highroad and admired the flowers by the wayside.

  10. He sought loans from abroad and schemed for power in the turbulent military politics of the time.

  11. Thus he schemed to stiffen the Manchu monarchy in a position of unbounded arrogance, so that a few generations of peace would find its armies sloven, atrophied, and useless, and its people still alien to the Chinese.

  12. Only don't tell me you schemed your way here, and that you are a lady detective.

  13. He had wished and schemed to be Earl of Bolingbroke before his fall, and now his new king, James of St. Germains, had given him the patent of enhanced nobility.

  14. If some Jacobite gentleman or loyal Hanoverian courtier of the year 1714 could revisit to-day the scenes in which he schemed and quarrelled, he would find himself among the familiar names of strangely unfamiliar places.

  15. Is this the return you make me for all I have done for you, and planned and schemed on my bended knees!

  16. She could not have succeeded better in gaining her object if she had schemed ever so shrewdly, like our old friend the campaigner, instead of acting according to the dictates of her own truthful, tender little heart.

  17. His money, however, would not last him long if he returned to England and attempted to regain a footing in his profession, and he had daringly schemed to increase it.

  18. It has been my steadfast object ever since I became an outcast; I've schemed and cheated to gain it, besides risking my life often in desolate muskegs and the arctic frost.

  19. She kept aloof from intrigues, in fact, knew nothing about them, and consequently never schemed to use her favor at court for purposes of self-interest.

  20. Satan might have meant it so, and schemed it; and the singly coming messengers believed it all, as also did the well-enduring Job.

  21. A really appropriate and practical design for embroidery should be schemed not merely with a view to its execution with the needle, but with a view to its execution in a particular stitch or stitches--and possibly by a particular embroidress.

  22. Janet brisked up, felt better in health and looked quite well, proposed excursions and schemed picnics.

  23. We had schemed to have such pleasant excursions together.

  24. My wife tells me that her cousin has turned over a new leaf--that he has schemed out a new career, and has set to work with a wonderful amount of energy--just that strong purpose which has been lacking in him hitherto.

  25. Schemed it, skipper, schemed it," said the American coolly.

  26. But he really did not like to think what the effect would be upon Hilda, when that young lady was called upon to give up all that she had schemed for--he knew well by this time that she had schemed for it.

  27. We have schemed and schemed how to help him,” said he, “but see no way except we storm that cursed penitentiary as the Bastille was stormed.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schemed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deliberate; fixed; packed; planned; plotted; prearranged; premeditated; rigged; stacked