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Example sentences for "schemers"

Lexicographically close words:
schematically; schematism; scheme; schemed; schemer; schemes; scheming; schen; schene; schepens
  1. Added to these were dreamers and schemers of more mature age.

  2. The schemers feast and govern, while the laborers fast and are governed.

  3. Blake surveyed their armament with considerable interest, as though convinced by this time that the clouds were gathering around the devoted heads of the two schemers who must soon find themselves in the toils.

  4. Hence mechanical schemers of all kinds were accustomed to resort to Clement for help when they had found an idea which they desired to embody in a machine.

  5. Rob looked upon them not as heroes daring deadly perils for the sake of their beloved Fatherland, but in the light of cowardly schemers who would creep up and do a terrible crime without taking any great risk themselves.

  6. This quieted the fears and enabled the schemers to go on.

  7. Perhaps the writer can do the public more service in analyzing a few of these "star phrases" than by any amount of denunciation of the wildcat schemes and schemers which deserve as harsh a characterization as any man can frame.

  8. Secured by These Get-Rich-Quick Schemers Discovered by Detective Clifton R.

  9. These damned political schemers have scared you.

  10. If one of the Hickory Ridge scouts was well in the lead, doubtless those four schemers in the automobile would, by the time night came on, start operations.

  11. Twenty-seven miles from Hickory Ridge and evening close at hand, when the miserable plot of the Fairfield schemers could be put into play!

  12. I was grieved to see this fine ship lying unprotected, deserted and abandoned by all those who ought to know her value, and ought to have protected her, instead of being humbugged by schemers and underwriters.

  13. The carrying out of astute plans may be done either by violence or by stealth; but, as evil loves to hide itself and to pose as good lest its success be endangered, schemers usually resort to trickery and fraud.

  14. The planning of wicked means through which some design can be successfully achieved is the sin of astuteness, and the persons who are well-fitted for such things are known as schemers and plotters.

  15. From that moment the two schemers had known little peace; their scheme was threatened.

  16. Here only a document was in question, a piece of parchment, perhaps, with a few written lines upon it, valueless to all but our hero and the two schemers who should have been father and mother to him.

  17. For the time being a hush fell over the schemers of every sort: Napoleon's health was good and the temple of Janus was closed.

  18. Before the appointed day, however, everything which master-schemers could foresee was carefully adjusted.

  19. Jack was all right; he wanted to learn facts and it was delightful to feel that he had run these schemers down to a point where he could listen to their mutual explanations.

  20. The result was that one dark and foggy night the schemers succeeded in stealing aboard of the Swallow.

  21. It is indeed lamentable that a few such pestiferous schemers should thus bring a certain degree of reproach upon the entire publishing business.

  22. But they also--if they would obtain peace--must exercise an eternal vigilance lest they fall into the hands of class-schemers and be betrayed into that which they do not desire.

  23. I can no longer remain silent in the presence of the schemers who seek to beguile you.

  24. But it was averted, and the schemers carried out their plan successfully.

  25. If the new Turkish administration should prove honest and successful, the schemers would be hard put to it for an excuse for the interference they had planned.

  26. It was an absurd thing for a young woman to bequeath a fortune to an old one--worse--it was a cruel and dastardly thing to do, if unscrupulous schemers were after it.

  27. The schemers must fall back upon the idea of typhus, and that brought the scheme round in a circle to the original starting point--the providing of necessary funds in specie to tide over a period of months.

  28. What the schemers had to do must be done speedily, silently, and neatly.

  29. The sharpers of society were let loose, and jobbers and schemers became more and more plentiful.

  30. It was, indeed, necessary to "make a party" in this way, as other schemers were already trying to undermine the Colombian Company in influential directions.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schemers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.